Sessions, Speakers & Agenda

Sessions — Order of Appearance

Thursday, November 12, 2026

1. Not Just for Historians: Learning from Infamous Gilded Age Decisions

2. A Question of Ethics: Should the Judge Sit This One Out?

3. Elegant and Persuasive Legal Writing

4. Under Threat: Protecting the Bench, the Bar, and the Rule of Law

5. Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? (Re)examining the Insular Cases

6. Before You Start Talking: Preparing for Appellate Oral Argument

7. Under the Hood: Internal Operations of Appellate Courts

8. The Pursuit of Liberty

9. Oral Argument Exhibition: A Real Case in Real Time

Saturday, November 14, 2026

10. A Philadelphia Story: The Restatements in Appellate Advocacy and Decision-making

11. Too Much or Too Little? Dicta, the Emergency Docket, and the Limits of Precedent

12. The Digital Fourth Amendment

13. Appellate Ethics for Lawyers and Judges

14. The Power of We: The Declaration Uncoded

15. Supreme Court Review: Civil and Criminal

16. Is a Tag Enough? Personal Jurisdiction Based on Social Media Activity–Tips for Practitioners

17. All That Rizz: Bridging the Gap in a Multi-Generational Workplace

Sunday, November 15, 2026

18. Professional Flourishing: Defining and Cultivating It

19. The Boundaries of Free Speech and Political Retaliation

20. Deepfakes: Seeing, Believing, and Sometimes Deceiving

Judiciary

• Hon. Linda M. Bell, Justice, Nevada Supreme Court
• Hon. Renée Cohn Jubelirer, President Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
• Hon. Matthew J. Fader, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland
• Hon. Andrew M. Jacobs, Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
• Hon. Patricia Lee, Associate Justice, Nevada Supreme Court
• Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Hon. Michael Owen Miller (Ret.), Former Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two
• Hon. Lorrie Sinclair Taylor, Chief Judge, Loudoun County General District Court
• Hon. Richard J. Sullivan, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Hon. Jeffrey S. Sutton, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Hon. Samuel A. Thumma, Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
• Hon. David N. Wecht, Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Hon. David D. Weinzweig, Vice Chief Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
• Hon. Diane P. Wood (Ret.), Director, The American Law Institute

Academia

• Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
• Prof. Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
• Prof. Siobhan Mukerji Barco, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
• Prof. Heidi K. Brown, Associate Dean for Upper Level Writing and Professor of Legal Writing, New York Law School
• Prof. Anna Conley, Associate Professor and Cliff Edwards Professor of Excellence in Trial Advocacy, University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law
• Prof. Charles G. Geyh, Distinguished Professor and John F. Kimberling Chair in Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
• Prof. Orin Kerr, Stella W. & Ira S. Lillick Professor, Stanford Law School, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
• Prof. Seth Kreimer, Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
• Prof. Elizabeth Lippy, Practice Professor of Law and Director of the Trial Advocacy Program, Temple University Beasley School of Law
• Prof. Megan E.K. Montcalm, Director of Academic Excellence and Assistant Professor of Legal Skills, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Duquesne University
• Prof. Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus, George Welwood Murray Professor of History of Law
• Prof. Jeffrey Rosen, CEO Emeritus, National Constitution Center, and Professor of Law, George Washington University School of Law
• Prof. Maxwell Stearns, Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
• Prof. Jonathan Turley, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, George Washington University Law School
• Prof. Stephen I. Vladeck, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts, Georgetown University Law Center

Attorneys, Executives, and Other Professionals

• Eleanor Barrett, Deputy Director, The American Law Institute
• Margaret Bullard, Central Staff Attorney, Court of Appeals of Georgia
• Kelly H. Dove, Partner, Snell & Wilmer LLP
• Matthew Friedlander, Partner, Webb Daniel Friedlander, LLP
• Kaitlyn M. Gurney, Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP
• Mitchell Kramer, Actor and Historian, Benjamin Franklin Interpreted
• Ryan McCarl, Partner, Rushing McCarl LLP
• Daniel M. Moore, Associate, Saul Ewing LLP
• Robert Rhodes, Chief Technology Officer, Thomson Reuters Special Services
• Douglas R. Richmond, Senior Vice President, Lockton Companies
• Neil Weare, Co-founder and Co-Director, Right to Democracy