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Conference on U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

By immigrationprof

Poster 230pxjohn_paul_stevens2c_scotus_pho Justice John Paul Stevens wrote one of the most important immigration and asylum decisions (INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421 (1987), since passage of the Refugee Act of 1980.  (My colleague and partner in blogging, Bill Hing, participated in the briefing in that case.).

As part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the dedication of Martin Luther King Jr., Hall, home to the University of California, Davis, School of Law, the 2009 UC Davis Law Review Symposium on March 6 will examine the career of Justice Stevens.  Justice Stevens has crafted a rich jurisprudence on matters involving core values of liberty, equality, and security. Legal experts from academia, journalism, and the practice, many of whom served as law clerks to the Justice, will analyze his work on topics including counterterrorism, criminal justice, abortion, affirmative action, and environmental protection.

My colleague and IntlawGrrl founder Diane Marie Amann, who clerked for Justice Stevens, took the lead on orgnizing this event, which will include Justice Steven’s appearance on video.  Symposium participants include David F. Levi (Dean, Duke University School of Law), Jeffrey L. Fisher (Stanford Law School), Jamal Greene (Columbia Law School ), Linda Greenhouse (Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law, Yale Law School; Former Supreme Court correspondent, New York Times). Elisabeth Semel (University of California, Berkeley), Cruz Reynoso (UC Davis), Diane Marie Amann (Professor and Director, California International Law Center at King Hall, UC Davis), Teresa Wynn Roseborough (Chief Litigation Counsel, MetLife, New York; Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General), Andrew Siegel (Seattle), Kenneth Manaster (Santa Clara), Daniel A. Farber (UC Berkeley), Eugene R. Fidell (President, National Institute of Military Justice Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School), Deborah N. Pearlstein (Associate Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School for Public & International Affairs, Princeton University; Former Director, Law & Security Program, Human Rights First ), and Kathryn Watts (University of Washington).

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KJ