Program

Important parking information is available on the Event Locations page.

Please note that all events are tentatively scheduled and subject to change. For information on the speakers, please refer to the speakers page. Please refer back to this page for the latest updates.

All panels and discussions will take place in Hutchins Hall, located on the Law Quadrangle in Central Campus. The cocktail reception on Friday, March 7th will take place in the Michigan League Building and the Saturday reception and banquet will take place at the Eagle Crest Conference Center and Resort in nearby Ypsilanti. For information on travel to and between these locations, please see the travel and accomodations pages.

Friday, March 7

3:30 p.m.	Registration - Lawyer's Club
6:30 p.m.	Opening Remarks - Hutchins Hall 100
6:45 p.m.	Panel - Judicial Interference With Community Values
8:45 p.m.	Debate - The Merits of Electing Our Judges
10:00 p.m.	Cocktail Reception (Michigan League)

Saturday, March 8

8:00 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00 a.m.	*Panel - Kelo, Grutter, and Popular Responses to Unpopular Decisions*
11:00 a.m.	Panel - The People's Common Law: Is Law & Economics Anti-Democratic?
12:45 p.m.	Lunch Break
2:00 p.m.	Speech and Commentary - An Originalist Judge and the Media
3:45 p.m.	Panel - Tradition and the People's Constitution
6:00 p.m.	Cocktail Reception (Eagle Crest Marriott)
7:00 p.m.	Banquet, featuring Keynote Speaker (Eagle Crest Marriott)

Speakers for the indicated panel, debate, or speech with commentary

Judicial Interference With Community Values (Fri., Mar. 7, 6:45 p.m.)
Prof. Richard Garnett, University of Notre Dame Law School
Prof. Roderick Hills, Jr., New York University School of Law
Prof. Douglas Laycock, University of Michigan Law School
Prof. Amy Wax, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Moderator: Justice Maura Corrigan, Michigan Supreme Court

The Merits of Electing Our Judges (Fri. Mar. 7, 8:45 p.m.)
Chief Justice Tom Phillips, Baker Botts LLP, retired from the Texas Supreme Court
Justice Harold See, Alabama Supreme Court
Moderator: Chief Justice Clifford Taylor, Michigan Supreme Court

Kelo, Grutter, and Popular Responses to Unpopular Decisions (Sat. Mar. 8, 9:00 a.m.)
Prof. Sherman Clark, University of Michigan Law School
Mr. Ward Connerly, Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Prof. Marci Hamilton, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Moderator: Justice Robert Young, Michigan Supreme Court

The People's Common Law: Is Law & Economics Anti-Democratic? (Sat., Mar. 8, 11:00 a.m.)
Prof. Robert Ellickson, Yale Law School
Prof. Brian Simpson, University of Michigan Law School
Prof. Henry Smith, Yale Law School
Moderator: Prof. Adam Pritchard, University of Michigan Law School

An Originalist Judge and the Media (Sat., Mar. 8, 2:00 p.m .)
Justice Stephen Markman, Michigan Supreme Court
Prof. Richard Primus, University of Michigan Law School
Pete Williams, NBC
Moderator: Judge Jennifer Elrod, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Tradition and the People's Constitution (Sat., Mar. 8, 3:45 p.m.)
Prof. William Eskridge, Yale Law School
Prof. Thomas Merrill, Columbia Law School
Prof. Reva Siegel, Yale Law School
Prof. Keith Whittington, Princeton University
Moderator: Prof. Joan Larsen, University of Michigan Law School

Banquet with Keynote Address (Sat., Mar. 8, 7:00 p.m.)
Judge Janice Rogers Brown, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia