Wednesday, September 25, 2013 | 12:25 PM – 1:50 PM
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court will take the bench for the October 2013 Term. It’s the time of year to learn what the Court has on its docket, and think about its direction. Now, more than ever, the Roberts Court deserves close examination. In June it handed down major rulings on same-sex marriage, voting rights, affirmative action, and gene patenting; for the coming term it has teed up cases on affirmative action, contribution limits in federal election campaigns, legislative prayer, and recess appointments by President Obama.
Our outstanding panel will reflect on June’s rush of major decisions and what it might mean for what is ahead. There will, as always, be lots of time for your questions, so come prepared.
Panelists:
Debo Adegbile ’94, Senior Counsel, US Senate Judiciary Committee.
Adegbile joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in 2001, and ultimately served as its acting president and director-counsel. He argued Voting Rights Act cases before the Supreme Court in 2009 and 2013, and in 2010 supervised the NAACP LDF team that prevailed in an employment-discrimination case on behalf of African-American firefighters in Chicago.
Lauren R. Goldman ’97, Partner, Mayer Brown
Goldman is co-head of Mayer Brown’s worldwide Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice. She is a member of the Supreme Court & Appellate group in the firm’s New York office. She has argued appeals in state and federal courts around the country and has briefed numerous cases in the Supreme Court and in state and federal appellate courts
Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent, New York Times
Liptak, joined the Times’s news staff in 2002 and began covering the Supreme Court in the fall of 2008. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, and practiced at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and as an in-house attorney at theTimes, focusing on First Amendment matters.
Moderator:
Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Friedman teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and Federal Courts. He is the author of The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (2009).