Friday August 30, 2024
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Meeting Both In-Person and by Zoom
Dampeer Room, Second Floor of Kelvin Smith Library*
Case Western Reserve University
Dear Colleagues:
Welcome back to our Public Affairs Discussions for a new academic year. I am very glad to begin with our traditional opening discussion of the Supreme Court.
Each year our eminent legal scholars analyze what happened in the previous term and project what might happen in the term that begins the First Monday in October. The October 2023 term included a raft of important decisions, and one of them, Loper Bright, calls for a separate discussion (which we will have on Sept 13). The New York Times summarized that the Court “issued major victories for former President Donald J. Trump, a sustained attack on the power of administrative agencies and mixed signals on guns and abortion.” Many scholars view the term as especially conservative, with the 6-3 conservative supermajority prevailing on both the cases about agency authority and President Trump’s future. Yet others can point to some of the more mixed decisions to question the depth of the conservative swing.
So how important are the past year’s decisions, what do they suggest about future decisions, and what happens next? That depends most immediately on the cases that will be considered in the October 2024 term. What are the major cases likely to be decided in that term? Join us as our colleagues look back to look forward.
Best wishes for safety and security for you and yours,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guests
Jonathan H. Adler is the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, administrative, and constitutional law.
Professor Adler is the author or editor of seven books, including Business and the Roberts Court (Oxford University Press, 2016), Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform (AEI Press, 2011), and over a dozen book chapters. His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation to The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He has testified before Congress a dozen times, and his work has been cited in the U.S. Supreme Court. A 2016 study identified Professor Adler as the most cited legal academic in administrative and environmental law under age 50.
Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, “The Volokh Conspiracy.” A regular commentator on constitutional and regulatory issues, he has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS “Newshour with Jim Lehrer” and NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” to the Fox News Channel and “Entertainment Tonight.”
Jonathan Entin has taught Constitutional Law; Administrative Law; Courts, Public Policy and Social Change; and a Supreme Court Seminar. Before joining the faculty in 1984, he clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (when she was on the U.S. Court of Appeals) and practiced in Washington with Steptoe & Johnson. The recipient of several teaching awards and a former co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education, he is at work on a book about equal protection. Among his recent publications are “Getting What You Pay For: Judicial Compensation and Judicial Independence,” Utah Law Review (2011) and “Responding to Political Corruption: Some Institutional Considerations,” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (2011).
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