If you missed the Society’s recent (March) student confab in Ann Arbor (theme: “The People and the Courts”), fear not!  You can now watch (or just listen) to the whole enchilada online, here.   The full agenda is below the fold:

Panel: Judicial Interference With Community Values

• Prof. Richard Garnett (Notre Dame); Prof. Roderick Hills, Jr. (NYU); Prof. Douglas Laycock  (Michigan); Prof. Amy Wax (Penn); Moderator: Justice Maura Corrigan (Michigan Supreme Court)

Debate : The Merits of Electing Our Judges 

• Chief Justice Tom Phillips (Baker Botts LLP, retired from the Texas Supreme Court); Chief Justice Clifford Taylor (Michigan Supreme Court); Moderator: Mr. Leonard A. Leo (Executive Vice President, The Federalist Society)

Panel: Kelo, Grutter, and Popular Responses to Unpopular Decisions 

• Prof. Sherman Clark (Michigan); Mr. Ward Connerly (Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute); Prof. Marci Hamilton (Cardozo); Moderator: Justice Robert Young (Michigan Supreme Court)

Panel: The People’s Common Law: Is Law & Economics Anti-Democratic? 

• Prof. Robert Ellickson (Yale); Prof. Brian Simpson (Michigan); Prof. Henry Smith (Yale); Moderator: Prof. Adam Pritchard (Michigan)

Speech and Commentary: An Originalist Judge and the Media

• Justice Stephen Markman (Michigan Supreme Court); Prof. Richard Primus (Michigan); Mr. Pete Williams (NBC News); Moderator: Judge Sean Cox (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan)

Panel : Tradition and the People’s Constitution 

• Prof. William Eskridge (Yale); Prof. Thomas Merrill (Columbia); Prof. Reva Siegel (Yale); Prof. Keith Whittington (Princeton); Moderator: Prof. Joan Larsen (Michigan)

Bator Award Presentation

• Prof. Saikrishna Prakash (San Diego)  
• Introduced by: Miss Carina Cilluffo (University of Chicago Law School Student Chapter)

Keynote Speaker 

• Judge Janice Rogers Brown (U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit) 
• Introduced by: Mr. Eugene B. Meyer (President, The Federalist Society)