State and Future of Civil Jury Trials: September 11, 2015

 

The Civil Jury Project, which was recently established at NYU law school, will hold its inaugural conference on September 11, 2015. The agenda for the conference can be found below. If you are interested in attending the conference you can RSVP here.

Friday, September 11 Lipton Hall, 108 West Third Street, New York, NY 10012

8:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:45-9:00 am Welcome

9:00-10:00 am Panel I: Originalism and the 7th Amendment Moderated by Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law; Faculty Co-Director, Civil Jury Project, NYU School of Law

• Preserved Where, Preserved How, Preserved Why? Renée Lerner, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
• Betraying a Distinctive Constitutional Idea of Popular Self-Government—Are the Lawyers, Judges, and Law Professors Still at It? Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School

10:00-11:00 am Panel II: Empirical Studies Moderated by Catherine Sharkey, Crystal Eastman Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Civil Jury Project, NYU School of Law

• The Jury Under Fire: Myth, Controversy, and Reform Brian Bornstein, Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Edie Greene, Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado
• Real Juries and Judicial Innovation: Arizona and the 7^th Circuit Shari Seidman Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University School of  Law

11:00-12:00 pm Panel III: Who’s To Blame? Moderated by Stephen Susman, Partner, Susman Godfrey; Executive Director, Civil Jury Project, NYU School of Law

• A View from the Bench The Honorable William Young, Judge, US District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• A View from the Bar Arthur Miller, University Professor, NYU School of Law
• A View from the Boardroom Robert Gasaway, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

12:00-12:30 pm Panel IV: What Innovations Judges, Court Systems, and Citizens Can Adopt to Save the Civil Jury Trial Panel Discussion:

• The Honorable Mark Bennett, Judge, US District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
• Paula Hannaford-Agor, Director, Center for Jury Studies, National Center for State Courts
• Andrew Ferguson, Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law

12:30-2:00 pm Lunch Keynote

Is it Worth the Fight? Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator for Rhode Island