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2005 Minnesota Law Review
Lindquist & Vennum Symposium

The Future of the Supreme Court: Institutional Reform and Beyond

October 21, 2005
8:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
University of Minnesota Law School
Lockhart Hall (Room 25)

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8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-8:45

Welcome (first half of clip)

  • Dean Alex Johnson
8:45-9:15

Introductory Presentation (second half of clip)

  • Adrian Vermeule:
    The Obstacles to Supreme Court Reform
9:15-10:40

Panel: The Role of Politics and Precedent in Limiting the Court's Judicial Power

  • Michael Gerhardt:
    Super Precedent
  • Daniel Farber:
    The Rule of Law and the Law of Precedent
  • Randy Barnett:
    Precedent: The New Judicial Supremacy
10:40-10:50 Break
10:50-12:15

Panel: Decision Making at the Court: A Convergence of People, Ideas, and Shifting Values

  • Thomas Lee:
    The Second-Image Reversed: The Influence of Geopolitics on Supreme Court Decisions in U.S. Foreign Relations Law
  • Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Guy-Uriel E. Charles:
    Representative Government, Representative Court?
  • Mark Tushnet:
    Can Knowing Less Be Better Than Knowing More?
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:40

Panel: Political Controversy and the "Suprapolitical" Third Branch

  • Stephen Smith:
    The Supreme Court and the Politics of Death
  • Martin Redish:
    The Supreme Court, the Rules Enabling Act, and the Politicization of the Federal Rules: Constitutional and Statutory Implications
  • Neal Devins:
    Should the Supreme Court Fear Congress?
2:40-2:50 Break
2:50-4:15

Panel: The Past, Present, and Future of the Supreme Court’s Workload

  • Kenneth Starr:
    The Supreme Court and its Shrinking Docket: The Ghost of William Howard Taft
  • Steven Calabresi:
    A Proposal to Reinstitute Circuit Riding
  • David Stras:
    Supreme Court Justices & the Incentives Approach to Retirement
4:15 Adjourn (Reception to follow in Auerbach Commons)

Sponsored by Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P.

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