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2017 Chicago-Kent Law Review Live Symposium<\/h1>\n

Presented in partnership with the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States (ISCOTUS)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Symposium Editors<\/h3>\n

Professor Christopher W. Schmidt, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law<\/strong>
\nProfessor Carolyn Shapiro, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chicago-Kent College of Law
\n565 West Adams Street
\nChicago, Illinois 60661
\nTuesday,\u00a0October 17, 2017
\nDirections\u00a0and Parking<\/a>
\n<\/span>Contact: Colin Pochie | cklawreview.me@kentlaw.iit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

\"SCOTUS<\/a>
\n<\/a>Download the Symposium flyer<\/a><\/p>\n

The Symposium is free, and lunch is provided for attendees with advance registration.\u00a0Registration is now closed, thank you for your interest.<\/p>\n

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Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
8:00 a.m. – 8:40 a.m.<\/td>\nArrival\/Breakfast<\/td>\nFront Lobby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:40 a.m. – 9:00 a.m<\/td>\nWelcome and Intro<\/td>\nMarovitz Courtroom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.<\/td>\nPanel 1: The Supreme Court and Presidential Politics<\/td>\nMarovitz Courtroom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:15\u00a0a.m. – 10:30\u00a0a.m.<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\nFront Lobby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.<\/td>\nPanel 2: The Supreme Court and Congressional Politics<\/td>\n\u00a0Marovitz Courtroom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45 a.m. – 12:00\u00a0p.m.<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\nFront Lobby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.<\/td>\nLunch Break and Keynote<\/td>\nMorris Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:30\u00a0p.m. – 1:45 p.m.<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\nFront Lobby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.<\/td>\nPanel 3: The Supreme Court and the Regulation of Electoral Politics<\/td>\n\u00a0Marovitz Courtroom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.<\/td>\nClosing Remarks<\/td>\nMarovitz Courtroom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Panel Participants<\/h2>\n

Panel 1:\u00a0The Supreme Court and Presidential Politics<\/h3>\n

Panel Moderator<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Harold J. Krent, Dean, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kevin J. McMahon, John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science, Trinity College
\n<\/strong>Will the Supreme Court Still ‘Seldom Stray Far’?: Regime Politics in a Polarized America<\/a>
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\nKevin J. McMahon is the John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science. His research mainly examines the presidency and the political origins and consequences of Supreme Court decisions. In 2014, the Supreme Court Historical Society awarded his book,\u00a0Nixon’s Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism\u00a0<\/em>and Its Political Consequences<\/em>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2011), its Erwin N. Griswold Book Prize. The Society only awards the Griswold Prize occasionally, approximately every three or four years.\u00a0Nixon’s Court<\/em>\u00a0was also selected as a 2012\u00a0CHOICE<\/em>\u00a0Outstanding Academic Title. Professor McMahon’s first book,\u00a0Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown<\/em>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2004), won the American Political Science Association\u2019s Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book published that year on the American presidency. He is also the co-author\/co-editor of three books on the presidency and presidential elections and author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.<\/p>\n

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Christopher W. Schmidt, Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
\n<\/strong>The Supreme Court as an Issue in Presidential Campaigns<\/a>
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\n<\/strong>A member of the IIT Chicago-Kent faculty since 2008, Professor Schmidt teaches in the areas of constitutional law, legal history, comparative constitutional law, and sports law. He has written on a variety of topics, including the political and intellectual context surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in\u00a0Brown v. Board of Education<\/em>, the Tea Party as a constitutional movement, how Supreme Court Justices communicate with the American people, the Supreme Court’s decision in the health care case, and the rise of free agency in Major League Baseball. His book The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era<\/em>\u00a0will be published by the University of Chicago Press in early 2018. He is currently working on a new book project,\u00a0Civil Rights; An American History<\/em>, which examines how Americans have struggled over the meaning of “civil rights” from the Civil War through today.<\/p>\n

Professor Schmidt is also a faculty fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where he serves as the editor of Law & Social Inquiry<\/em>. Professor Schmidt has received fellowships from the American Society for Legal History, the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard. His article\u00a0Divided by Law: The Sit-Ins and the Role of the Courts in the Civil Rights Movement<\/em>\u00a0won the 2014 Association of American Law Schools’ Scholarly Papers Competition<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a02016 American Society for Legal History Surrency Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Professor Schmidt earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in the history of American civilization and an M.A. in history from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. While in law school, he served as executive articles editor for the Harvard Civil Rights\u2013Civil Liberties Law Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kate Shaw, Associate Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law
\n<\/strong>Presidential Intent
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\nKate Shaw is an Associate Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Before joining Cardozo, Professor Shaw worked in the White House Counsel\u2019s Office as a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President. She clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.<\/p>\n

She graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude<\/em> from Brown University and with a J.D. magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from Northwestern University, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the\u00a0Northwestern University Law Review<\/em>\u00a0and won the John Paul Stevens Award. Professor Shaw\u2019s teaching and research interests include constitutional law, legislation, administrative law, the Supreme Court, election law, and gender and sexual orientation and the law. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming, among other places, in the\u00a0Northwestern University Law Review<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Columbia Law Review<\/em>, the\u00a0Cornell Law Review<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Georgetown Law Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Panel 2:\u00a0The Supreme Court and Congressional Politics<\/h3>\n

Panel Moderator<\/strong>
\nSheldon H. Nahmod, University Distinguished Professor, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lori A. Ringhand, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law, University of Georgia\u00a0School of Law
\n<\/strong>The Ginsburg Rules<\/a>
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\n<\/strong>Lori A. Ringhand is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs &\u00a0J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. Ringhand teaches Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, and Election Law. She received her JD degree from University of Wisconsin and a post-law degree from Oxford University.<\/p>\n

Ringhand\u2019s work focuses on the Supreme Court confirmation process and the voting patterns and practices of Supreme Court justices. She is the co-author of Supreme Court\u00a0<\/em>Confirmation Hearings\u00a0and Constitutional Change<\/em>, published by Cambridge University Press, as well as a constitutional law casebook published by Carolina Academic Press. Her scholarship has been published in both peer and student edited journals, and she is a frequent commentator in the national and international media. Her work has been discussed on the editorial pages of the New York Times<\/em>, as well as on BBC and CNN. Ringhand is a 2016-17 University of Georgia Women\u2019s Leadership Fellow, the 2010 and 2014 recipient of the University of Georgia Law School\u2019s Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2017 recipient of the John C. O\u2019Bryne Memorial Award for Significant Contributions Furthering Student-Faculty Relations.<\/p>\n

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Jason Mazzone, Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Illinois\u00a0College of Law
\n<\/strong>The 115th Congress and the Supreme Court<\/a>
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\n<\/strong>Jason Mazzone is the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Illinois Program in Constitutional Theory, History and Law. Professor Mazzone\u2019s primary field of research and teaching is constitutional law and history. He works principally on issues of constitutional structure and institutional design with a particular focus on relationships between structural arrangements and individual rights.<\/p>\n

Professor Mazzone received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, a master\u2019s degree from Stanford University, and a master\u2019s and doctorate from Yale University. While a student he worked with Laurence H. Tribe on constitutional cases in the Supreme Court and for Robert D. Putnam on the bestselling book\u00a0Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community<\/em>. He served also as Rapporteur to the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America, a workshop group whose members included then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. Before entering law teaching, Professor Mazzone clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Judge John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and he practiced intellectual property law in New York City.<\/p>\n

Professor Mazzone is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the European Law Institute, chair of the Illinois-Bologna Conference on Comparative Constitutional History, a member of the Advisory Board of the\u00a0Italian Law Journal<\/em>, and a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law Research Group on Constitutionalism in Illiberal Democracies. His scholarship has been cited by many courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a regular media commentator and he has written about legal issues for\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and other national newspapers. Professor Mazzone also blogs at\u00a0Balkinization<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Carolyn Shapiro, Associate Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
\n<\/strong>How Members of Congress Talk about the Supreme Court and the Constitution and Why it Matters<\/a>
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\n<\/strong>Professor Shapiro is the founder and co-director of Chicago-Kent’s\u00a0Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States<\/a>\u00a0(ISCOTUS). Her scholarship is largely focused on the Supreme Court, its relationship to other courts and institutions, and its role in our constitutional democracy. She teaches classes in legislation and statutory interpretation, constitutional law, employment law, and public interest law and policy.<\/p>\n

From 2014 through mid-2016, Professor Shapiro took a leave of absence from Chicago-Kent to serve as Illinois solicitor general. She has argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, the Illinois Supreme Court, and the Illinois Appellate Courts.<\/p>\n

Professor Shapiro blogs at ISCOTUSnow<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(which she also co-edits) and on the\u00a0Chicago-Kent Faculty Blog<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0CK Now<\/a>, and she also posts on Huffington Post<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and as a guest blogger at the\u00a0American Constitution Society Blog<\/a>. In addition, her commentary has appeared in a number of outlets, including the Washington Monthly<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>website and\u00a0CNN<\/a>. She regularly appears as a guest commentator on\u00a0Chicago Tonight<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and other media outlets. Professor Shapiro is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Chicago Lawyers’ Chapter of the American Constitution Society.<\/p>\n

Professor Shapiro was a law clerk for then-Chief Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to coming to Chicago-Kent in 2003, she worked as an associate with Miner, Barnhill & Galland, where she handled plaintiff civil rights cases, and as a Skadden Fellow with the National Center on Poverty Law.<\/p>\n

She earned a B.A. with general and special honors in English from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from the University of Chicago Harris Graduate School of Public Policy, and a J.D. (high honors) from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was articles editor of the\u00a0University of Chicago Law Review<\/span><\/em>\u00a0and a member of the Order of the Coif.<\/p>\n

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Keynote Speaker<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Richard L. Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine School of Law
\n<\/strong>Judging the Political and Political Judging: Justice Scalia as Case Study<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Professor Richard L. Hasen is Chancellor\u2019s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Hasen is a nationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, and is co-author of a leading casebook on election law.<\/p>\n

From 2001-2010, he served (with Dan Lowenstein) as founding co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication,\u00a0Election Law Journal. He is the author of over 100 articles on election law issues, published in numerous journals including the\u00a0Harvard Law Review<\/em>,\u00a0Stanford Law Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Supreme Court Review<\/em>. He was elected to\u00a0The American Law Institute<\/a>\u00a0in 2009 and served as an Adviser on ALI\u2019s law reform project,\u00a0Principles of Election Law: Resolution of Election Disputes.<\/p>\n

Professor Hasen was named one of the\u00a0100 most influential lawyers in America<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0The National Law Journal<\/em>\u00a0in 2013, and one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California in 2005\u00a0and 2016<\/a>\u00a0by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal.<\/p>\n

His op-eds and commentaries have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em>, Politico<\/em>, and Slate<\/em>.\u00a0Hasen also writes the often-quoted\u00a0Election Law Blog<\/a>, which the\u00a0ABA Journal<\/em>\u00a0named to its \u201cBlawg 100 Hall of Fame<\/a>\u201d\u00a0in 2015. His newest book,\u00a0The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption<\/a><\/em>, will be published in 2018 by Yale University Press.<\/p>\n

Professor Hasen holds a B.A. degree (with highest honors) from UC Berkeley, and a J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. (Political Science) from UCLA. After law school, Hasen clerked for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then worked as a civil appellate lawyer at the Encino firm Horvitz and Levy.<\/p>\n

From 1994-1997, Hasen taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and from 1998-2011 he taught at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he was named the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law in 2005. He joined the UC Irvine School of Law faculty in July 2011, and is a faculty member of the UC Irvine\u00a0Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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