Appellate Judges Education Institute

2023 Summit

November 2 – 5, 2023

JW Marriott
1331 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, D.C.

November 2 – 5, 2023

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Thursday, November 2, 2023

TIME	SESSION NAME	SPEAKER(S)
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM	Check-in and registration
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM	Presentation of Colors and Welcome	Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby (D,C, App.), Hon. J. Michelle Childs (D.C. Cir.), Hon. Sri Srinivasan (D.C. Cir.)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM	Plenary 1: Historical Facts: Past Present & Future	Karen Precella (Moderator); Laurie Webb Daniel, Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP; Hon. Mark E. Salter (SD); Joseph J. Ellis
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM	Plenary 2: Keynote	A Fireside Chat with Hon. Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM	BREAK
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM	Plenary 3: Supreme Court Preview	Jason Steed (Moderator), Elaine J. Goldenberg (Munger, Tolles & Olson); John P. Ellwood (Arnold & Porter); Deepak Gupta (Gupta Wessler)
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM	BREAK
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM	Break-out 1: McCulloch v. Maryland: One-Stop Shopping for Textual Interpretive Methods	Cynthia Keeley Timms, Locke Lord (Moderator); Prof. Neil S. Siegel (Duke); Hon. Laurie McKinnon (MT); Hon. Michelle Childs (D.C. Cir.)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM	Break-out 2: Other Side of the Lectern: Trading Places	Hon. William Boyce, Alexander Dubose & Jefferson, LLP (Moderator); Hon. Eric Magnuson (former MN CJ), Robins Kaplan, LLP; Hon. Thomas I. Vanaskie (Ret.), Stevens & Lee; Hon. Toby J. Heytens (4th Cir.); Hon. Lisa M. Lorish (VA App.)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM ??	Opening Reception: Library of Congress Montpelier Room

Friday, November 3, 2023

TIME	SESSION NAME	SPEAKER(S)
7:15 AM – 8:15 AM	Breakfast
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM	Plenary 4: Why BOTher Writing?	Hon. Herbert Dixon (Ret.) (Moderator); Mark Davies (Orrick); Prof. Joshua A.T. Fairfield (Wash. & Lee); Emily Colbert, Thompson-Reuters
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM	BREAK
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM	Break-out 3: Fine Art of Rebuttal	Gaëtan Gerville-Réache, Warner Norcross & Judd LLP; (Moderator); Hon. Shirley Troutman (NY Ct. App); Daniel Keyser (Haynes & Boone); Kannon Shanmugam (Paul, Weiss)
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM	Break-out 4: The Importance and Impact of U.S. Appellate Courts of Special Jurisdiction	Deanne E. Maynard (MoFo) (Moderator); Hon. Jennifer Choe-Groves (CIT); Hon. John E. Sparks (Armed Forces App.); Hon. Scott L. Laurer (Veterans Claims App.)
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM	BREAK
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM	Plenary 5: DEI: Bench & Bar Pipeline	Jay Breakstone (Moderator); Hon. Amy St. Eve, (7^th Cir.); Juvaria Khan, Founder, The Appellate Project; Nadeen Abou-Hossa, Esq., Gonzalez Chiscano Angulo & Kasson, PC
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM	BREAK
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM	Plenary 6: Law, Justice, and the Holocaust	Ann O’Rourke (USHHM)
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Free Time – Optional Tours -Local Events/Hospitality
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM	Private SCOTUS Tour for AJEI Committee members (max. 15)	Supreme Court Building
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM	SCOTUS Private Lecture (max 100 people)	Supreme Court Building (Docent-led)
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Holocaust Museum	Ann O’Rourke and USHHM Docents
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM	Council of Appellate Lawyers (CAL) Meet and Greet (All AJEI attendees invited)
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM	CAL Dine-Around for Lawyers and Judges (Optional/additional charge)
Time – TBD	CASA T-shirt Exchange for Staff Attorneys

Saturday, November 4, 2023

TIME	SESSION NAME	SPEAKER(S)
6:00 AM	Fun Run/Walk
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM	Breakfast and Optional CAL Roundtable Discussions
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM	Plenary 7: Fireside Chat with U.S. Solicitor General	Hon. Elizabeth Prelogar, U.S. Solicitor General; Hon. Michelle Childs (D.C. Cir.) and Hon. Robert Edmunds (Ret.) (Moderators)
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM	BREAK
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM	Break-out 5: The Supreme Court and the American Constitutional System	Dahlia Lithwick (Moderator); Prof. Erich Segall (Ga. State); Prof. Stefanie Barclay (Notre Dame); Prof. Samuel Moyn (Yale); Prof. Steven Vladeck (Texas)
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM	Break-out 6: No Laughing Matter-Pop Culture References & Humor	Hon. James Ho; Hon. John B. Owens; Chad Baruch; Hon. John Browning (Moderator)
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM	BREAK
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM	Plenary 8 – SCOTUS Update	Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley)
12:30 PM – 2:15 PM	Judges’ Lunch and CAL/CASA Business Meetings
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM	Break-out 7: SCOTUS Criminal Update	Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley)
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM	Break-out 8: Building/Maintaining an Appellate Practice	Matt Leerberg (Fox, Rothschild) (Moderator); John P. O’Herron (Thompson McMullan); Elissa Haynes (Freeman, Mathis & Gary); Matthew Freedlander (Webb, Daniel, Freedlander)
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM	BREAK
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM	Break-out 9: Lexicon is Not a Fortress – Law & Linguistics	Hon. Christopher J. McFadden (Ga. App.), Moderator; Hon. Samuel A, Thumma (Ariz. App.); Kirsten Castañeda; Prof. James Brudney (Fordham)
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM	Break-out 10: Changing Voir Dire Standards	Lucy Inman (Milberg Weiss) (Moderator); Prof. Nina Chertoff (CUNY); Hon. Edwina Mendelson (Deputy Chief Admin. Judge, NY); Hon. Greg Mize (Ret.) (D.C. Super.); Emily Coward (Director, Inclusive Juries Project, Duke Law School)
6:00 PM – 10:30 PM	Saturday Night Reception, Dinner, Entertainment

Sunday, November 5, 2023

TIME	SESSION NAME	SPEAKER(S)
7:45 AM – 8:30 AM	BREAKFAST
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM	Honoring Our Veterans
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM	Plenary 9: A Joinder of Inspiration and Greatness in Civil Rights Legislation: The Words of Lincoln and King on the Anniversaries of the Gettysburg Address and the “I Have a Dream” Speech.	Hon. Frank Sullivan, Jr. (Ind. Sup. Ct., Ret.), (Moderator); Prof. Bobby J. Donaldson (Univ. S. Carolina, Dept. of History); Hon. Frank Williams (Retired C.J. of Rhode Island)
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM	BREAK
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Break-out 11: Making Non-Argument Sections of Brief Persuasive	Ben Cooper, Dickinson Wright (Moderator); Harker Rhodes (Clement & Murphy); Samantha Chaifetz, DLA Piper; Hon. Albert Diaz (4th Cir.)
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Break-out 12: Victims’ Rights, Sentencing Reform, and a Civilian-Military Dialogue on the Implementation of Criminal Justice Initiatives	Dwight Sullivan (DOD G.C. Office) (Moderator); Jonathan Wroblewski (DOJ Crim. Div.); Capt. Stephen Reyes (Navy JAG); Lt. Col. Lauren Shure (USAF); Lauren Britsch Slater (DOJ).
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM	BREAK
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM	Plenary 10: Ethics of Recusal/Disqualification for Lawyers & Judges	Prof. Marin Levy (Duke); Prof. James Sample (Hofstra); Kip Nelson (Fox, Rothschild)
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM	Conclusion and Preview of 2023 Summit

Speakers

Hon. Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Hon. Elizabeth Prelogar, Solicitor General of the United States
Hon. J. Michelle Childs, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hon. James Ho, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Hon. John B. Owens, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Jesse. H Choper Distinguished Law Professor, U.C Berkeley School of Law
Hon. Eric J. Magnuson (Ret.), Former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Hon. Laurie McKinnon, Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
Hon. Jennifer Choe-Groves, U.S Court of International Trade
Hon. Samuel Thumma, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
Prof. Steven Vladeck, Charles Alan Wright, Chair in Federal Courts, University of Texas, School of Law
Prof. Eric J. Segall, Ashe Family Chair Professor of Law, Georgia State University, College of Law
Prof. Stephanie Barclay, Associate Professor of Law, Director of the Religious Liberty Initiative, Notre Dame Law School
Prof. John Morlay, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Prof. James Brudney, Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law, Fordham School of Law
Prof. Neil S. Siegel, Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life, Duke Law School
Dalia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate
and many more…

Session topics:

A Fireside Chat with Hon. Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and Hon. J. Michelle Childs, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
The Supreme Court and the American Constitutional System
A Fireside Chat with the U.S. Solicitor General
Why “BOT”her Writing?
Law, Justice, and the Holocaust (with an optional additional tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
The Importance and Impact of U.S. Appellate Courts of Special Jurisdiction
Disqualification of Judges & Lawyers: Ethics of Recusal
DEI: Bench and Bar Pipeline
Historical Facts: Past, Present, and Future
Update on Key Decisions of October 2022 SCOTUS Term
Preview of October 2023 SCOTUS Term
The Lexicon is Not a Fortress: Law and Linguistics
Making Non-Argument Sections of a Brief Persuasive
Building and Maintaining an Appellate Practice
McCulloch v. Maryland: One-Stop Shopping for Textual Interpretive Methods
Other Side of the Lectern: Trading Places Between Practitioner and Judge and Back
The Fine Art of Rebuttal at Oral Argument
Increasing Diversity in the Appellate Bench and Bar: Building the Talent Pipeline through Appellate Mentoring
No Laughing Matter: Pop Culture References and Humor in Appellate Writing
Key Decisions of October 2022 SCOTUS Term – Criminal Update
Changing Voir Dire Standards
A Joinder of Inspiration and Greatness in Civil Rights Legislation: The Words of Lincoln and King on the Anniversaries of the Gettysburg Address and the “I Have a Dream” Speech.
Victims’ Rights, Sentencing Reform, and a Civilian-Military Dialogue on the Implementation of Criminal Justice Initiatives

Registration