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Conference
20th Annual Constitution Day
The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue
A Look at the 2020 and 2021 Terms
A Look at the 2020 and 2021 Terms
Five Virginia CLE credits will be offered to both in-person and online attendees. Online CLE attendees can register or join here.
Cato’s annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day‐long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up.
Schedule
10:30 - 10:45 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Ilya Shapiro, Vice President and Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
Introduction
Trevor Burrus, Research Fellow, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel I: First Amendment
Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor, University of Virginia School of Law
Bradley A. Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor, Capital University Law School
Thomas Berry, Managing Editor, Cato Supreme Court Review
Moderated by Trevor Burrus, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 - 2:15 PM
Panel II: Property and Criminal Law
Adam Mossoff, Professor, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Christopher Slobogin, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law Director, Vanderbilt Law School
Ilya Shapiro, Vice President and Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
Moderated by Thomas Berry, Managing Editor, Cato Supreme Court Review
2:15 - 3:30 PM
Panel III: Constitutional Structure
Aaron Nielson, Professor of Law, BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School
Josh Blackman, Professor, South Texas College of Law Houston
Derek T. Muller, Professor, University of Iowa College of Law
Moderated by Will Yeatman, Research Fellow, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
3:30 - 3:45 PM
Break
3:45 - 5:00 PM
Panel IV: Looking Ahead: October Term 2021
Amy Howe, Editor, Howe on the Court (blog)
Erik S. Jaffe, Schaerr Jaffe, L.L.P.
Sarah M. Harris, Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP
Moderated by Trevor Burrus, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture: “The Court of Mass Incarceration”
Rachel E. Barkow, Vice Dean and Charles Seligson Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, New York University School of Law
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Reception
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