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Conference
21st Annual Constitution Day
The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue
A Look at the 2021 and 2022 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
10:40 - 10:45 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Trevor Burrus, Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel I: Constitutional Structure
Jonathan Adler, Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, George Mason University
Jennifer L. Mascott, Professor of Law, George Mason University
Moderated by Will Yeatman, Research Fellow, Cato Institute
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 - 2:15 PM
Panel II: Freedom of Speech, the Press, and Religion
Enrique Armijo, Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law
Elizabeth Goitein, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Michael Bindas, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
Moderated by Thomas Berry, Research Fellow, Cato Institute
2:15 - 2:25 PM
Break
2:25 - 3:30 PM
Panel III: Guns, Drugs, and Abortion
Evan Bernick, Professor of Law, Northern Illinois University College of Law
Kelly Dineen Gillespie, Professor of Law and Director of Health Law Programs, Creighton University School of Law
David Kopel, Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Moderated by Trevor Burrus, Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
3:30 - 3:45 PM
Break
3:45 - 5:00 PM
Panel IV: Looking Ahead: October Term 2022
Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute
Amy Howe, Editor, Howe on the Court (blog)
Amy Mason Saharia, Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP
Moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture
Term Limits/Time Rules for Future Justices: Eighteen Arguments for Eighteen Years
Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
Moderated by Trevor Burrus, Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Reception
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