Upcoming Conferences

The Rehnquist Court and the First Amendment

Friday, November 18, 2005
Washington University School of Law, Room 309
8:30 a.m - 5:00 p.m.

"Our conference will focus on several aspects of the development of First Amendment law over the chief justiceship of William H. Rehnquist," notes associate professor Neil Richards, who is organizing the conference with third-year student Heather Buethe and other members of the journal's conference committee. "We will focus in particular on theoretical and doctrinal developments in areas including technology and speech, property and speech, commercial speech, and the religion clauses." Click here to view the Conference Program.

This conference is eligible for 6.9 Missouri CLE credits.

The Rehnquist Court and the First Amendment Conference Program

Friday, November 18, 2005

8:30 am Registration, Coffee & Continental Breakfast

9:00 am Introductory Remarks

Dean Daniel L.  Keating
Professor Neil M. Richards

9:15 - 11:00  Technology & Speech:

Speaker:         John Palfrey, Harvard Law School
Commentator: Thomas B. Nachbar, Virginia University School of Law
Speakers:        Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School
                      Mark P. McKenna, St. Louis University School of Law
                      Jonathan Zittrain, Oxford University (via videoconference)
Moderator:     Jennifer E. Rothman, Washington University School of Law

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:30  Property & Speech:

Speaker:         Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University School of Law
Commentator: Shelley Ross Saxer, Pepperdine University School of Law
Speaker:         Timothy Zick, St. John's University School of Law
Moderator:      Daniel R. Mandelker, Washington University School of Law

12:30-2:00  Lunch

2:00-3:15    Free Speech Methodologies:

Speakers:    Martin H. Redish, Northwestern University School of Law
                  Lee Epstein, Washington University School of Law & 
                  Jeffrey A. Segal, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook University
                  David E. Bernstein, George Mason University School of Law
Moderator:  Neil M. Richards, Washington University School of Law

3:15-3:30    Break

3:30 - 5:00  Religion and the First Amendment:

         Speaker:          Garrett Epps, University of Oregon School of Law
         Commentator:  Eric R. Claeys, St. Louis University School of Law
         Speaker:          Jay D. Wexler, Boston University School of Law
         Commentator:  Thomas C. Berg, University of St. Thomas School of Law
         Speaker:          Abner S. Greene, Fordham University School of Law
         Moderator:       Leigh Hunt Greenhaw, Washington University School of Law

 

 Publishing Authors
Garrett Epps, Some Animals are More Equal than Others: The Rehnquist Court and "Majority Religion"
      Commentator: Eric R. Claeys
Nicole Garnett
Abner S. Greene, The Distinctiveness of Religion: The Continuing Confusion
Mark P. McKenna
John Palfrey & Rob Rogoyski, States, Harmful Speech, and Threats to the End-to-End Principle of Network Design
      Commentator: Thomas B. Nachbar
Martin H. Redish, Commercial Speech and the Rehnquist Court: A Study in the Intersection of Supreme Court Decisionmaking and Constitutional Theory
Robert A. Sedler, Property and Speech
      Commentator: Shelley Ross Saxer
Lee Epstein & Jeffrey A. Segal, Trumping the First Amendment?
Jay D. Wexler, The Endorsement Court
      Commentator: Thomas C. Berg 
Timothy Zick, Property, Place and Public Discourse
 

Parking:

Parking will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis in various parking lots around campus. To receive a parking permit ahead of time, please contact Heather Buethe at hgmackie@wulaw.wustl.edu, by November 9. Parking permits will also be available at the door. For maps of parking lots and directions, click here. 

For more information contact:
Heather Buethe, Managing Editor, Journal of Law and Policy, hgmackie@wulaw.wustl.edu.