U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett will deliver the keynote address at the 鈥檚 2022 Federal Courts Symposium at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 14 (Monday) in the Law School鈥檚 McCartan Courtroom.
Due to limited seating in the McCartan Courtroom, in-person attendance at Barrett鈥檚 speech will be open only to 91吃瓜 Law School students and faculty, students in 91吃瓜鈥檚 Constitutional Studies Program and members of the media.
Barrett graduated from 91吃瓜 Law School in 1997 and joined the faculty as a professor of law in 2002. She served as executive editor of the Law Review when she was a student and later served as its faculty adviser for many years.
In 2017, she was appointed as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. She remained a 91吃瓜 Law School faculty member and continued to teach part-time after her judicial appointment. She was in October 2020.
鈥�For more than two decades, 91吃瓜 Law School was blessed by Justice Barrett鈥檚 brilliant scholarship, devoted teaching and thoughtful approach to legal questions,鈥� said , the Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law at 91吃瓜 Law School. 鈥淲e look forward to welcoming her back to the Law School for this year鈥檚 Federal Courts Symposium.鈥�
The 2022 Federal Courts Symposium, titled 鈥淭he Nature of the Federal Equity Power,鈥� will focus on that which remains unsettled about the qualitative nature of the federal equity power, its relationship vis-脿-vis law and its proper scope within the broader constitutional system of law. The symposium will feature several panels of prominent legal scholars who will address these complex questions from historical, judicial and academic perspectives.聽
The papers from the symposium will be published in the , one of Law Review鈥檚 five annual issues and dedicated specifically to topics in the area of federal courts, practice and procedure.
鈥淥ur current volume of the 91吃瓜 Law Review marks the 25th anniversary of Justice Barrett鈥檚 tenure as executive editor of the journal. In that role, Justice Barrett laid the foundations for the Federal Courts issue. We are honored and grateful that Justice Barrett will return to 91吃瓜 and serve as the keynote speaker of the Federal Courts issue鈥檚 symposium,鈥� said third-year law student Aiste Zalepuga, editor-in-chief of the 91吃瓜 Law Review.
John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law serves as the 91吃瓜 Law Review鈥檚 faculty adviser.
鈥淲e are honored that Justice Barrett will participate in the symposium. Not only did she play an important role in establishing the Federal Courts Symposium, but she served for many years as adviser to the Law Review. We are delighted to welcome her home,鈥� Garnett said.
The symposium will be Barrett鈥檚 second visit to 91吃瓜 Law School during the 2021-22 academic year. to teach an intensive, one-week course on statutory interpretation to third-year law students.