Ryan Bangert, Senior Counsel and Vice President for Legal Strategy, Alliance Defending Freedom
Arif Panju, Managing Attorney, Institute for Justice
Becky Ricketts, Counsel, Becket Law
Keisha Russell, Counsel, First Liberty Institute
Chance Weldon, Senior Attorney and Director of Litigation for the Center for the American Future, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Moderator: Hon. Drew Tipton, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Hon. William Barr, Former United States Attorney General and Author, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
Moderator: Will Levi, Partner, Sidley and former Chief of Staff to Attorney General William Barr

CLE credit anticipated.
Featuring:

Rick Glazier, Executive Director, North Carolina Justice Center
Professor Derek Muller, Iowa College of Law
Phil Strach, Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Moderator: Hon. James C. Dever, Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina

CLE credit anticipated.
Featuring:

Professor John Orth, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law, UNC School of Law
Hon. Stephen Markman, Former Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
Andrew Tripp, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, University of North Carolina System Office
Ryan Park, Solicitor General, North Carolina
Moderator: Hon. Paul Newby, Chief Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court

Featuring:

Hon. Thom Tillis, United States Senator
Moderator: Hon. Robert T. Numbers, United States Magistrate Judge

Featuring:

Hon. Frank D. Whitney, United States District Court, Western District of North Carolina

Featuring:

Trey Allen, General Counsel, Administrative Office of the Courts
Hon. Richard Dietz, Judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals
Hon. Samuel J. Ervin IV, Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Hon. Lucy Inman, Judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals
Moderator: John Hood, President, John William Pope Foundation

Featuring:

Hon. William Barr, Former Attorney General of the United States

This extremely contemporary controversy will be the subject of a special debate. Opponents of the independent prosecutor system charge that it violates the doctrine of separation of powers by removing a purely executive function from responsibility to the executive branch, and that it also violates traditional standards of fairness by politicizing criminal prosecution and by creating incentives to find a crime to fit the suspect rather than a suspect to fit the crime. Defenders of the statute hold that it is unrealistic to expect the executive branch to police itself and that there is both textual and historical support for Congress' constitutional authority to set up such a system.

On August 13, 1999, the Federalist Society's Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group sponsored a panel at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The panel considered the question "Did the Law Cause Columbine?".

Featuring:

Introduction: Justice George Nicholson, California Court of Appeal, Third District
Moderator: Troy Eid, Chief Counsel to Gov. Bill Owens (CO)
Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Ann Beeson, Staff Attorney, ACLU
Michael J. Horowitz, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Prof. William F. Kilpatrick, Boston College
James A. Rapp, Editor in Chief, Education Law