Webcast -- Conference on the State of the Judiciary- Our Courts and Corporate Citizenship

» Thursday, 10/02/2008 09:00 AM (EST)
   

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9:00 – 9:05 a.m.
Welcome (link above)
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

9:05 – 9:15 a.m. (link above)

Opening Remarks

Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

9:15 - 9:20 a.m. (link above)

Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker

John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University

9:20 – 9:40 a.m. (link above)
Keynote Address

Alan Greenspan, former Chairman, United States Federal Reserve
"Markets and the Judiciary"

9:40 – 10:35 a.m.
Panel I

"Independent Courts as a Precondition to Open Markets"
Kenneth Frazier, Executive Vice President and President, Global Human Health, Merck & Co., Inc.
C. Boyden Gray, former Special Envoy for European Union Affairs
Bradford L. Smith, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Viet D. Dinh, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)

10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Panel II

"Can Corporations be Brought Back to Courts as a Dispute Resolution Mechanism? Should They?"
Kenneth Feinberg, Managing Partner and Founder, The Feinberg Group LLP, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Randy J. Holland, Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
Ramona E. Romero, Corporate Counsel and Manager of Law Firm Partnering, DuPont
Fern M. Smith, JAMS, The Resolution Experts

Catherine Herridge, National Correspondent, FOX News (moderator)

12:00 – 1:45 p.m.
Lunch: Report on Judicial Salaries

D. Brock Hornby, Judge, United States District Court, District of Maine
Bernard W. Nussbaum, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Meryl J. Chertoff, Director, Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)

3:15 – 3:35 p.m.
Remarks
Stephen Breyer
, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

3:35 – 4:35 p.m.
Panel III

"State Judicial Races – How Can Corporations Help Stop the Campaign Funding 'Arms Race?'"
Louis Butler, Justice, Retired, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Thomas Gottschalk, Of Counsel, Kirkland and Ellis LLP
Theodore Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
Adam Liptak, National Legal Correspondent, New York Times (moderator)

5:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks

Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court
   

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