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Panel 1 - The Imperial Supreme Court Today
Recommended Reading
- Rachel Bayefsky, Judicial Institutionalism, 109 Cornell L. Rev. 1297 (2024)
- Victoria Nourse, The Paradoxes of a Unified Judicial Philosophy: An Empirical Study of the New Supreme Court: 2020-2022, 38 Const. Commentary 1 (2024)
- Amanda Hollis-Brusky, An Activist’s Court: Political Polarization and the Roberts Court, in Kenneth Miller et al., Parchment Barriers: Political Polarization and the Limits of Constitutional Order (University Press of Kansas, 2018)
- Fred Smith, Jr., Undemocratic Restraint, 70 Vand. L. Rev. 845 (2017)
Panel 2 - The Rise of the Court
Recommended Reading
- Jill Lepore, The Architect of our Divided Supreme Court, The New Yorker (Jan. 22, 2024),
- Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath, The Supreme Court Wasn’t Always the Final Arbiter of the Constitution, Wash. Post (Aug. 2, 2022)
- Aziz Rana, Why Americans Worship the Constitution, Public Seminar, October 2021
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Robert Post, The Supreme Court’s Crisis of Authority: Law, Politics, and the Judiciary Act of 1925 (forthcoming).
Panel 3 - The Court vs. Public Opinion
Recommended Reading
- Stephen Jessee, Neil Malhotra, & Maya Sen, A Decade-Long Longitudinal Survey Shows that the Supreme Court is now Much More Conservative than the Public, Proceedings of the Nat'l Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2022)
- Thomas P. Schmidt, Courts in Conversation, 2022 Mich. St. L. Rev. 411 (2022)
- Lee Epstein & Andrew D. Martin, Does Public Opinion Influence the Supreme Court? Possibly Yes (But We're Not Sure Why), 13 U. Penn. J. Const. L. 263 (2012)
Lunch Session with Linda Greenhouse
Recommended Reading
Panel 4 - Where do we go from here?
Recommended Reading
- Ryan D. Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, Democratizing the Supreme Court, 109 Calif. L. Rev. 1703 (2021)
- Erwin Chemerinsky, Saving American democracy will require constitutional reforms and Supreme Court term limits, ABA J. (August 2024)
- Steve Vladeck, 76. A Taxonomy for Court Reform, One First (Apr. 15, 2024)
Please direct any inquiries regarding the symposium to our Symposium Editors, Mary Cruz and Cheyenne Smith, at the following email address: lrsymposium@lawnet.ucla.edu.
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