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Conference Schedule

Friday, September 29, 2023 at Rutgers School of Law, Newark

Welcome Remarks (9:00 – 9:15 am; breakfast available beginning at 8:15 am)

  • Johanna Bond, Dean, Rutgers Law School

Crosscurrents (9:15 – 10:30 am)

  • Michael Dorf, Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
  • Sheri Lynn Johnson, James and Mark Flanagan Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
  • John H. Blume, Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques and Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, Cornell Law School
  • Moderator: John Leubsdorf, Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Frederick B. Lacey Scholar, Rutgers Law School

Break (10:30 – 10:45 am)

Animal Rights (10:45 am – 12:00 pm)

  • Taimie L. Bryant, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
  • Mariann Sullivan, Adjunct Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
  • Michael Dorf, Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
  • Moderator: Andrew Gelfand, Cornell Law Review, Editor-in-Chief 2022-23

Lunch and Personal Reminiscences (12:00 – 1:30 pm)

  • Hosted by David Troutt, Distinguished Professor of Law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar, Rutgers Law School

Criminal Law (1:30 – 2:45 pm)

  • Tracey Maclin, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
  • George Thomas, Board of Governors Professor of Law and Judge Waugh Distinguished Scholar, Rutgers Law School
  • Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Chopper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Law School
  • Moderator: Vera Bergelson, Distinguished Professor of Law and Robert E. Knowlton Scholar, Rutgers Law School

Break (2:45 – 3:00 pm)

Feminist Jurisprudence (3:00 – 4:30 pm)

  • Deborah Dinner, Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
  • Neil Buchanan, James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
  • Penny Venetis, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic, Rutgers Law School
  • Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford Law School
  • Moderator: Sally Goldfarb, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School

Concluding Remarks (4:30 – 4:35 pm)

  • Jens David Ohlin, Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

Reception (4:35 – 5:30 pm)