Appellate Judges Education Institute

Sessions, Speakers & Agenda

The agenda is still being finalized and speakers still being confirmed. Below are some of the Session and Speakers.*

Session Topics

Keynote talk on The Pursuit of Liberty

Supreme Court Review: Civil and Criminal

Not Just for Historians: Learning from Infamous Gilded Age Decisions

The Power of We: the Declaration Uncoded

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

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

Oral Argument Exhibition: A Real Case in Real Time

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

Elegant and Persuasive Legal Writing

Appellate Ethics for Lawyers and Judges

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

The Boundaries of Free Speech and Political Retaliation

The Law Between the Lines: Dicta and Emergency Orders

Professional Excellence: Defining and Creating It

Deepfakes: Seeing, Believing, and Sometimes Deceiving

Before You Start Talking: Preparing for Appellate Oral Argument

Under the Hood: Internal Operations of Appellate Courts

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

The Digital Fourth Amendment

Personal Jurisdiction and Social Media

Session Speakers

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. Cheryl Ann Krause, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Hon. Laurie McKinnon, Justice, Montana Supreme Court
Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Hon. Matthew Miller, Former Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two
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, Director, The American Law Institute

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. Mary Beth Beazley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
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; Professor of Law, George Washington University School of Law
Prof. Stephen I. Vladeck, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts, Georgetown University Law Center

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
Mitchell Kramer, Actor and Historian, Benjamin Franklin Interpreted
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

*Schedule, Session Topics and Speakers subject to change.

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