"Decisions, Trends, & the Road Ahead: 2025-26 U.S. Supreme Court Term"
September 18 | 12:30-4:15 p.m. | 3.25 CLE Credits
Lunch Available 12:00-12:30 p.m.
Registration requested for in-person attendance
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TIME | Session |
|---|---|
12:00 p.m. | Registration and Lunch |
12:30-1:15 p.m. | Keynote Address: "The Supreme Court’s Recent and Upcoming Election Law Cases: Implications & Impact" Guest Speaker: Professor Rick Hasen, Director, Safeguarding Democracy, UCLA School of Law Moderator: Rachel Sowray |
1:15-1:25 p.m. | Brief Break |
1:25-2:25 p.m. | Panel 1: Rapid Fire Review of Cases in the News & A Few We May Have Missed with Oregon Law Faculty Panelists: Professor Adell Amos, Professor Thomas Lininger, Professor Orli Oren Kolbinger, Professor Ofer Raban, Professor Allison Schmitt, Professor Elizabeth Tippett Moderator: Professor Andrew Winden |
2:25-2:40 p.m. | Break with Refreshments |
2:40-3:25 p.m. | Panel 2: The Supreme Court in Transition: Institutional Change, Controversies, & Judicial Dynamics Panelists: Miriam Rosenbaum, Brennan Center for Justice Senior Fellow, Professor Olatunde Johnson, Columbia Law School Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 Professor of Law (joining remotely) Moderator: Professor Stuart Chinn |
3:25-3:30 p.m. | Brief Break |
3:30-4:15 p.m. | Panel 3: Who is American? And Other Immigration & Citizenship Cases Before the Supreme Court Panelists: Professor Joel Sati, Benjamin Wang Moderator: Professor Arifa Raza-Bayona |
Keynote Address: Decisions, Trends, & the Road Ahead: 2025-26 U.S. Supreme Court Term
Richard L. Hasen is the Gary T. Schwartz Endowed Chair in Law, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy), and Director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law. He is an internationally recognized expert in election law, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts. He is co-author of leading casebooks in election law and remedies. Hasen served in 2022 and 2024 as an NBC News/MSNBC Election Law Analyst. He was a CNN Election Law Analyst in 2020. From 2001-2010, he served (with Dan Lowenstein) as founding co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal. He is the author of over 100 articles on election law issues, published in numerous journals including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Supreme Court Review, and Yale Law Journal. He was elected to The American Law Institute in 2009 and serves as Reporter (with Professor Douglas Laycock) on the ALI’s law reform project: Restatement (Third) of Torts: Remedies. He also is an adviser on the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Concluding Provisions. Professor Hasen holds a B.A. degree (with highest honors) from UC Berkeley, and a J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. (Political Science) from UCLA. After law school, Hasen clerked for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then worked as a civil appellate lawyer at the Encino firm Horvitz and Levy.
