Monday, June 12, 2023

AJEI in DC


The 2023 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit will be in Washington, DC November 2–5, 2023. Details and a link to register can be accessed here.

Confirmed panelists include:
  • Hon. Elizabeth Prelogar, Solicitor General of the United States
  • Hon. J. Michelle Childs, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
  • Hon. James Ho, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Hon. John B. Owens, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Jesse. H Choper Distinguished Law Professor, U.C Berkeley School of Law
  • Hon. Eric J. Magnuson (Ret.), Former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
  • Hon. Laurie McKinnon, Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
  • Hon. Jennifer Choe-Groves, U.S Court of International Trade
  • Hon. Samuel Thumma, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
  • Dean Emeritus James Alfini, Professor of Law, South Texas School of Law Houston
  • Prof. Steven Vladeck, Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts University of Texas, School of Law
  • Prof. Eric J. Segall, Ashe Family Chair Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
  • Prof. Stephanie Barclay, Associate Professor of Law, Director of the Religious Liberty Initiative, Notre Dame Law School
  • Prof. John Morlay, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  • Prof. James Brudney, Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law, Fordham School of Law
  • Prof. Neil S. Siegel, Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life, Duke Law School
  • Dalia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate

Session topics include:
  • The Supreme Court and the American Constitutional System
  • A Fireside Chat with the U.S. Solicitor General
  • “BOTs” and Writing
  • Law, Justice, and the Holocaust (with an optional additional tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
  • The Importance and Impact of U.S. Appellate Courts of Special Jurisdiction
  • Disqualification of Judges: Judicial Ethics & Legal Ethics perspectives
  • DEI: Bench and Bar Pipeline
  • Historical Facts: Past, Present, and Future
  • Update on Key Decisions of October 2022 SCOTUS Term
  • Preview of October 2023 SCOTUS Term
  • The Lexicon is Not a Fortress: Law and Linguistics
  • Making Non-Argument Sections of a Brief Persuasive
  • Building and Maintaining an Appellate Practice
  • McCulloch v. Maryland: One-Stop Shopping for Textual Interpretive Methods