From litigation challenging COVID regulations to the recent legal challenges to state laws regulating transgender surgery and medications to recent actions to reassess the EPA's "Endangerment Finding," important questions have emerged about how courts should evaluate scientific claims. What are the challenges “with appealing and deferring to the authority of the expert class,” as Justice Thomas wrote in his Skrmetti concurrence? What is the role of the judge and the jury in evaluating scientific claims made by the parties?
Featuring:

Mr. Benjamin M. Flowers, Partner, Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC
Prof. Michael Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School; Faculty Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Mr. Rob Johnson, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
Mr. J.J. Snidow, Partner, Keller Postman LLP
Moderator: Hon. Jennifer Mascott, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Introducer: Mr. David Haungs, President, Yale Student Chapter

The advent and rise of AI over the past several years poses radical questions for lawyers and the law. How will AI change the practice of law, including the work of law firms and inside judges’ chambers (“AI for the Law”)? And how should courts respond to the myriad legal issues implicating AI – copyright and beyond (“The Law of AI”)? Do the last five years of legal cases against social media companies tell us anything about the future of AI companies in the courts? Will there be a “techlash” against AI similar to the “techlash” against social media? How might national security concerns inform the AI legal and regulatory landscape?
Featuring:

Mr. Ryan L. Bangert, Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Special Counsel to the President, Alliance Defending Freedom
Mr. James M. Burnham, Managing Partner, King Street Legal; President, Vallecito Capital
Hon. Kevin C. Newsom, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Mr. Mike Trinh, Associate General Counsel, OpenAI
Mrs. Tobi Young, General Counsel, Saronic Technologies
Moderator: Hon. Jennifer Walker Elrod, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Introducer: Mr. Gabriel Powell, President, Notre Dame Student Chapter

What do the tools of originalism teach us about significant immigration legal issues? For example, what was the President’s authority to remove aliens at the time of the Founding? How much of immigration is left to the President versus Congress? What can originalism tell us about immigration and due process? Experts discuss cutting edge issues in immigration law and ask how and whether originalism can help provide answers.
Featuring:

Prof. Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School
Prof. Stephanie Barclay, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center & Faculty Co-Director, Georgetown Center for the Constitution, Georgetown University Law Center
Mr. Trevor W. Ezell, General Counsel, Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott
Mr. Gene P. Hamilton, President & Co-Founder, America First Legal Foundation
Moderator: Hon. James P. Sullivan, Texas Supreme Court
Introducer: Ms. Jordan Lamb, Former President, Texas Student Chapter

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Roberts Court. Many of the Court's most high-profile rulings have occurred this decade—and the decade is only half over. The advocates who argued and won five of the most high-profile rulings of the Roberts Court discuss trends of the Roberts Court; the path to victory in their respective cases; and what is on the horizon for the Roberts Court. Cases discussed include Dobbs, Students for Fair Admissions, Loper Bright, Skrmetti, and Bruen.
Featuring:

Hon. Paul D. Clement, Partner, Clement & Murphy, PLLC
Mr. Cameron T. Norris, Partner, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC
Mr. Matthew Rice, Solicitor General, Tennessee
Mr. Scott G. Stewart, Solicitor General, Mississippi
Moderator: Hon. Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, United States District Court, Middle District of Florida
Introducer: Mrs. Morgan Larson, President, Arizona State Student Chapter

Overflow: Hutchins Hall Michigan Law School
We are pleased to announce that the Honorable James C. Ho & Allyson Newton Ho will be the keynote speakers for a Fireside Chat at the Saturday evening banquet.


Hon. James C. Ho, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Allyson Newton Ho, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Moderator Katherine Rifiotis Slivensky, Michigan Student Chapter President
Moderator JJ Marshall, Michigan Student Chapter, Symposium Co-Director

Featuring:

Prof. Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Prof. Tara Leigh Grove, Professor and Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
Prof. Richard Primus, Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Prof. Amanda Tyler, Thomas David & Judith Swope Clark Professor of Constitutional Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Prof. Keith E. Whittington, David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Moderator: Hon. Raymond Kethledge, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Featuring:

Prof. Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School
Prof. Julian Davis Mortenson, James G. Phillipp Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Moderator: Hon. Joan Larsen, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Featuring:

Prof. Nicholas Bagley, Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Prof. Emily Bremer, Professor, Notre Dame Law School
Prof. Jennifer Nou, Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Hon. Paul J. Ray, Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Moderator: Hon. Neomi Rao, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Featuring:

Prof. Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Hon. Justin Amash, former United States Congressman from Michigan
Prof. Josh Chafetz, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown University Law Center
Prof. Gillian E. Metzger, Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law, Columbia Law School
Amanda H. Neely, Of Counsel, Gibson Dunn and former General Counsel to Senator Rob Portman
Moderator: Hon. Robert J. Luck, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

Featuring:

Prof. Jeffrey Pojanowski, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
Prof. Jennifer L. Mascott, Director of the Separation of Powers Institute and Associate Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
Prof. Nina A. Mendelson, Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program, University of Michigan Law School
Prof. Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Prof. Aaron Nielson, Solicitor General of Texas and Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Law School
Moderator: Hon. Chad A. Readler, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit