Vikram Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis, and was previously the dean and the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign College of Law from 2015-2023. Amar has also taught law at Berkeley School of Law, Hastings College of Law and UCLA School of Law. Amar is one of the most eminent and frequently cited authorities in constitutional law, federal courts, and civil procedure. He has written several books and more than 60 articles in leading law reviews. He is a co-author (along with Akhil Reed Amar) of the upcoming revised multi-volume Treatise on Constitutional Law (West Publishing Co.) pioneered by Ron Rotunda and John Nowak. Read More ›
Supreme Court 2022-23 Term in Review
Professors Amar and Dorf will discuss the leading cases the Supreme Court decided in its most recent Term, as well as those issues that the Court failed to address. Topics will include: race-based affirmative action in higher education admissions; judicial review of political gerrymandering; conflicts between free speech and anti-discrimination law; validity of administrative student debt forgiveness; state regulation of animal welfare; Indian Child Welfare Act's preference for adoption by tribal members; Title 42 border policy; social media company liability for third-party content; and more. Time permitting, Professors Amar and Dorf will also discuss calls for a binding ethics code for Supreme Court justices.
Agenda:
- Overview of the 2022-23 Supreme Court Term
- How monumentally did this term change the legal landscape?
- Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard
- Affirmative action, the approach of the opinion, constitutional distinctions, and what schools might do now
- Moore v. Harper and Allen v. Milligan
- The Elections Clause, the Voting Rights Act, redistricting plans, the powers of state legislatures, and how the Court dealt with the theories underlying the cases
- 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
- The First Amendment, creating expressions, discrimination, and how the Court decided the case
- Biden v. Nebraska
- Separation of powers, the Administrative Procedure Act, student loan forgiveness, state standing, and the opinion's approach
- Haaland v. Brackeen
- The Indian Child Welfare Act, tribal member preference in adoption proceedings, federal authority, and the opinion of the Court
- Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith
- Transformative works under the Copyright Act, silkscreen prints and illustrations based on a photograph by another artist, and the Justices' analysis
- Other Interesting Cases From the Term
Topics covered include:
Legal Updates
Duration of this webinar:
60 minutes
Originally broadcast:
July 19, 2023 12:00 PM PT
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Speakers
Vikram Amar
Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Davis School of Law
UC Davis School of Law
Michael Dorf
Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
Cornell Law School
Michael C. Dorf teaches constitutional law, federal courts, and related subjects at Cornell Law School. He has authored or co-authored six books and over one hundred scholarly articles and essays for law journals and peer-reviewed science and social science journals. He also writes a bi-weekly column for Verdict and publishes a popular blog, Dorf on Law: www.dorfonlaw.org. Dorf received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard. Read More ›
