The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools begins tomorrow. Here are some of the highlights by day & time:
Thursday, January 3
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Joint AALS and Conference of Chief Justices Workshop on the Courts: Independence and Accountability. Check the program for details of this multipanel event.
6:30 p.m. University of Illinois Reception, Liberty 1 & 2, Third Floor, Sheraton New York. I will be there!
Friday, January 4
8:30 - 10:15 a.m., Regent Parlor, Second Floor, Hilton New York, The Supreme Court’s Hands-Off Approach to Religious Doctrine. The speakers include Christopher L. Eisgruber, Richard W. Garnett, R. Kent Greenawalt, Andrew Koppelman, Northwestern University School of Law & Bernadette A. Meyler, Cornell Law School.
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Reproductive Justice After Carhart. The speakers include Michael C. Dorf, Reva B. Siegel, Kenji Yoshino, and Angela P. Harris.
Saturday, January 5
8:30-10:15 a.m. Of Guns And Militias: Just What Does The Second Amendment Guarantee? Reflections on the Supreme Court’s Grant Of Certiorari In District Of Columbia V. Heller, Trianon Ballroom, 3 rd floor, New York Hilton. Speakers include Katherine Darmer, Michael C. Dorf, John C. Eastman, Chapman University School of Law, and Eugene Volokh
8:30-10:15 a.m. WHO IS FEDERALISM FOR: LIBERALS, CONSERVATIVES, EVERYONE, OR POLITICAL LOSERS, Mercury Ballroom, Third Floor, Hilton New York. Speakers include: Randy E, Barnett, Mark A. Graber, Lisa Miller, obert A. Schapiro.
8:30 - 10:15 a.m. Gramercy A, Second Floor, Hilton New York, Empirical Scholarship in Law: Multiple Methodological Approaches. Speakers include: Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff, Herbert M. Kritzer, Janice Nadler, Kathryn M. Zeiler, and Deborah R. Hensler.
10:30 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. Gramercy B, Second Floor, Hilton New York, Implementing Scholarship. Speakers include: Gabriel Jackson Chin,
Paul C. Giannelli, Harold Hongju Koh, and Deborah L. Rhode.10:30 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. Beekman Parlor, Second Floor, Hilton New York, Judicial Independence and Political Accountability. Speakers include: Akhil Reed Amar, Susan R. Estrich, Sanford Levinson, Michael W. McConnell.
1:30 - 3:15 p.m., Sutton North, Second Floor, Hilton New York, The Margins of Legal Personhood. Speakers include: Taimie L. Bryant, Margaret O. Little, Paul Litton, Lawrence B. Solum. My talk will be entitled "Zombies."
3:30 - 5:15 p.m., Beekman Parlor, Second Floor, Hilton New York, The Future of Legal Scholarship. Speakers include: Oona A. Hathaway, Saul Levmore, Tracey L. Meares, and Eugene Volokh.
Sunday, January 6
9:00 - 10:45 a.m. Beekman Parlor, Second Floor, Hilton New York, The New Originalism and Its Critics. The speakers include: Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School, Michael B. Rappaport, Lawrence B. Solum,
Keith E. Whittington. Kurt Lash organized this year's fabulous conlaw lineup. My talk will be entitled "Semantic Originalism."
