Supreme Court Institute Panel Discussion on President Obama’s Nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court and the Confirmation Process

Wednesday, 6/03/2009 12:30 PM (EST)

Panelists

Joan Biskupic (L’93), Supreme Court correspondent, USA Today, and author of the forthcoming American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and of Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice  

Susan Low Bloch, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Roy Englert, a partner at Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner and Sauber, who served in the Office of the Solicitor General and has argued 18 cases before the Supreme Court

Richard Lazarus, Georgetown Law professor and faculty co-director of the Supreme Court Institute

Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times and author of its “Sidebar” column

Patricia Millett, co-head of Akin-Gump’s Supreme Court practice, who has argued 26 cases before the Supreme Court (more than any other woman in private practice)

Moderated by:

Pam Harris, incoming executive director of the Supreme Court Institute and of counsel in O’Melveny’s Washington, D.C. office, where she works on Supreme Court and appellate litigation.

About Georgetown University Law Center

Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world's premier law schools. It has the largest faculty in the nation and is preeminent in several areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. Drawing on its Jesuit heritage, it has a strong tradition of public service and is dedicated to the principle that law is but a means, justice is the end. With this principle in mind, Georgetown Law has built an environment that cultivates an exchange of practical ideas and the pursuit of academic excellence. It brings together an extraordinarily varied group of teachers, scholars and practitioners, as well as an outstanding student body representing more than 60 countries.