Recent Programs

January 6, 2006

Federal Courts and the War on Terrorism

Speakers:  Janet C. Alexander (Stanford), Curtis A. Bradley (Duke), Neal K. Katyal, (Georgetown), Barbara J. Olshansky (Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY)

Papers to be published in the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

January 7, 2005

From Warren to Rehnquist and Beyond:  Federalism as Theory, Doctrine, Practice, and Instrument

Speakers:  Edward A. Purcell, Jr., (New York Law School), Lynn Baker (Texas), Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke), Jesse Choper (Berkeley), Mary Anne Case (Chicago)

Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Evolving Understandings of American Federalism:  Some Shifting Parameters, 50 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. ___ (2006) (forthcoming)

Lynn Baker, The Future of Federalism:  Pierce County v. Guillen as a Case Study, 50 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. ___ (2006) (forthcoming)

Erwin Chemerinsky, Reconceiving Federalism to Allow Government the Power to Deal with Social Needs, 50 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. ___ (2006) (forthcoming)

Jesse Choper and John Yoo, Who's So Afraid of the Eleventh Amendment?:  The Limited Impact of the Court's Sovereign Immunity Rulings, 50 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. ___ (2006) (forthcoming)

Mary Anne Case, Federalism in America and Europe:  Some Comparisons, 50 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. ___ (2006) (forthcoming) (tentative title)

January 4, 2004

Indian Nations and the Federal Courts:  The Forgotten Sovereign in Federal Jurisdiction

Speakers:  Judith Resnik (Yale), Catherine Struve (Pennsylvania), Frank Pommerscheim (South Dakota), Robert Clinton (Arizona State)

Symposium Issue:  Indian Tribe and the Federal Court:  The Overlooked Sovereign in Federal Jurisdiction, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 1 (2004)

Robert N. Clinton,  Comity & Colonialism:  The Federal Courts Frustration of Tribal<-- -->Federal Cooperation, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 1 (2004)

Frank Pommerscheim, Tribal Courts and Federal Courts:  A Very Preliminary Set of Notes for Federal Courts Teachers, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 63 (2004)

Judith Resnik, Tribes, Wars, and the Federal Courts:  Applying the Myths and the Methods of Marbury v. Madison to Tribal Courts' Criminal Jurisdiction, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 77 (2004)

Catherine T. Struve, Tribal Immunity and Tribal Courts, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 137 (2004)

January 4, 2003

      Marbury v. Madison in Its Bicentennial Year

               Speakers:  John Hart Ely, Robin West, Michael Dorf, Louise Weinberg, Christopher Eisgruber

Symposium Issue:  Marbury v. Madison:  A Bicentennial Symposium, 89 Va. L. Rev. 1103 (2003)

Matthew D. Adler & MIchael C. Dorf, Constitutional Existence Conditions and Judicial Review, 89 Va. L. Rev. 1105 (2003)

Christopher L. Eisgruber, Marbury, Marshall and the Politics of Constitutional Judgment, 89 Va. L. Rev. 1203 (2003)

Louise Weinberg, Our Marbury, 89 Va. L. Rev. 1235 (2003)

Robin West, Tom Paine's Constitution, 89 Va. L. Rev. 1413 (2003)

G. Edward White, The Constitutional Journey of Marbury v. Madison, 89 Va. L. Rev. 1463 (2003)

 

January, 2002

       Federal Courts and Electoral Politics

Speakers:  Louise Weinberg, Pamela Karlan, Aviam Soifer, Heather Gerken

Symposium Issue:  82 B.U.L. Rev. 608 (2002)

Louise Weinberg, When Courts Decide Elections:  The Constitutionality of Bush v. Gore, 82 B.U.L. Rev. 609 (2002)

Pamela S. Karlan, Exit Strategies in Constitutional Law:  Lessons for Getting the Least Dangerous Branch out of the Political Thicket, 82 B.U.L. Rev. 667 (2002)

Aviam Soifer, Courting Anarchy, 82 B.U.L. Rev. 699 (2002)

Heather Gerken, Election Law Exceptionalism?  A Bird's Eye View of the Symposium, 82 B.U.L. Rev. 737 (2002)

January, 2001 (forthcoming)

January, 2000

The Eleventh Amendment

Speakers:  William A. Fletcher (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit), Vicki C. Jackson (Georgetown), John E. Nowak (Illinois), James E. Pfander (Illinois), Suzanna Sherry (Vanderbilt), Carlos Manuel Vazquez (Georgetown)

William A. Fletcher, The Eleventh Amendment:  Unfinished Business, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 843 (2000)

Vicki C. Jackson , Principle and Compromise in Constitutional Adjudication:  The Eleventh Amendment and State Sovereign Immunity, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 953 (2000)

John E. Nowak, The Gang of Five and the Second Coming of an Anti-Reconstruction Supreme Court, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1091 (2000)

James E. Pfander, Once More Unto the Breach:  Eleventh Amendment Scholarship and the Court, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 817 (2000)

Carlos Manuel Vazquez, Eleventh Amendment Schizophrenia, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 859 (2000)