Term Talk

Standing. Experts discuss the novel theory of standing by inseverability, limitations on Congress’ ability to confer standing through legislation, and the questions raised by allowing nominal damages to save some completed harms from mootness.

Participants. Suzanna Sherry, Professor, Vanderbilt Law School; Evan Lee, Professor Emeritus, UC Hastings College of Law; and Jim Chance, Senior Judicial Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Free Speech and Free Association. Watch experts discuss the Court’s first look at public school regulation of off campus student speech, and the burden donor disclosure requirements have on Free Association rights.

Participants. Melissa Murray, Professor, NYU Law School; Paul Clement, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP; Hamid Khan, Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Free Speech and Free Association. Watch experts discuss the Court’s first look at public school regulation of off campus student speech, and the burden donor disclosure requirements have on Free Association rights.

Participants. Melissa Murray, Professor, NYU Law School; Paul Clement, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP; Hamid Khan, Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Free Exercise of Religion. Watch experts discuss the Court’s shift toward a more robust Free Exercise Clause in the context of contracting and COVID restrictions, and the red flag raised by government discretionary decision making.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, UC Berkeley Law School; Michael McConnell, Professor, Stanford Law School; and Jim Chance, Senior Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Free Exercise of Religion. Watch experts discuss the Court’s shift toward a more robust Free Exercise Clause in the context of contracting and COVID restrictions, and the red flag raised by government discretionary decision making.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, UC Berkeley Law School; Michael McConnell, Professor, Stanford Law School; and Jim Chance, Senior Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Voting Rights Act. Watch experts discuss the limits the Supreme Court placed on Sec. 2 of the VRA to regulate time, place, and manner restrictions, and the implications for the VRA.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, UC Berkeley Law School; Laurie L. Levenson, Professor, Loyola Law School; and Jim Chance, Senior Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Voting Rights Act. Watch experts discuss the limits the Supreme Court placed on Sec. 2 of the VRA to regulate time, place, and manner restrictions, and the implications for the VRA.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, UC Berkeley Law School; Laurie L. Levenson, Professor, Loyola Law School; and Jim Chance, Senior Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Fourth Amendment. Search and Seizure. Watch experts discuss the Court’s refusal to broaden the Community Caretaking exception and doctrine of hot pursuit in favor of protecting privacy in the home, and the different standards applied to seizure in civil and criminal cases.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley School of Law; Laurie Levenson, Professor, Loyola School of Law; and Jim Chance, Senior Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Fourth Amendment. Search and Seizure. Watch experts discuss the Court’s refusal to broaden the Community Caretaking exception and doctrine of hot pursuit in favor of protecting privacy in the home, and the different standards applied to seizure in civil and criminal cases.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley School of Law; Laurie Levenson, Professor, Loyola School of Law; and Jim Chance, Senior Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Experts discuss the Supreme Court’s broadening of the ministerial exception to discrimination claims and the shift toward more robust Free Exercise and weaker Establishment Clauses.