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November 2 – 5, 2023
Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
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 |
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, (7th 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 |
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 |
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 |
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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…
- 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