William and Mary Law School is hosting a symposium on the Civil Jury as a Political Institution on Feb 22-23. To register for the symposium go here.
Symposium Schedule is as follows:
Friday, February 22
1:30 pm Introductions
1:40 pm Opening Remarks: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,
D-Rhode Island
2:50 pm Presentation Group 1: Juries as Political Actors
Heather Gerken,
Yale Law School
Stephan Landsman, DePaul Law School
William Nelson, NYU
Law School
4:00 pm Presentation Group 2: The Civil Jury’s Place in Our Constitutional
Structure
Suja Thomas, Illinois Law School
Robert Burns, Northwestern Law
School
4:50 pm Presentation Group 3: Value Judgments Through Damages
Neil Vidmar,
Guynga Liu, Duke Law School, Herbert Kritzer, University of Minnesota Law
School
Valerie Hans, Cornell Law School
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Saturday,
February 23
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Presentation Group 4: Juries as Participants in
Democracy
Alexandra Lahav, University of Connecticut Law School
lya Somin,
George Mason University Law School
9:50 am Presentation Group 5: Jurors as Community Experts
Shari Diamond,
Northwestern Law School
Roderick Hills, NYU Law School
10:40 am Presentation Group 6: Representation By and Diversity on the
Jury
Jeffrey Abramson, Texas Law School
Ethan Leib, Fordham Law
School
Christina Carbone and Victoria Plaut, Berkley Law School
11:40 am Closing Remarks