Program Description
On Friday, January 31, 2020, the Louisiana Law Review and the Pugh Institute for Justice will present We The Jury: Conversations on the American Jury’s Past, Present, and Future in the McKernan Auditorium at the LSU Law Center.
The Louisiana Law Review’s 2020 Symposium explores the American jury’s history, contemporary challenges, and future role. Legal practitioners and scholars from across the country, as well as locally, will discuss and analyze a variety of issues relating to the history of the jury, jury selection and representation, the Sixth Amendment and non-unanimous juries, as well as the role of the jury as a political and cultural institution.
The Symposium features renowned scholars and academics, including Professor Shari Seidman Diamond, Professor Paul Finkelman, Professor Daniel S. Harawa, Professor Alexis Hoag, Professor Brooks Holland, Professor Mary Graw Leary, Professor Renée Lettow Lerner, Professor Nancy S. Marder, Professor Gregory Parks, Paula Hannaford-Agor, C. Renée Manes, and local judges and lawyers, including Judge Piper D. Griffin, Harry J. “Skip” Philips, Jr., J.E. Cullens, Jr., William Snowden, and Sam Crichton. LSU Law Center professors will moderate panels of scholars and practitioners in addressing these issues.
The Law Review Symposium is free and open to the public and can count for up to 7.5 hours of CLE Credit (CLE Course Title: We the Jury: Conversations on the American Jury’s Past, Present, and Future; Course #: 5170200131).
Registration Link: https://law.lsu.edu/forms/symposium/
LSU Law Symposium Website Link: https://law.lsu.edu/symposium/
| Registration and Breakfast | 8:00 – 8:20 A.M. |
| Opening Remarks – Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge, LSU Law Interim Dean, David Weston Robinson Professor of Law, and McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law | 8:20 – 8:30 A.M. |
| Panel 1 – Historical Perspectives
Moderated by Professor Raymond T. Diamond, Jules F. and Frances L. Landry Distinguished Professor of Law and James Carville Alumni Professor of Law, LSU Law Center PRESENTERS: Paul Finkelman, President of Gratz College Renée Lettow Lerner, Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School |
8:30 – 9:30 A.M. |
| Break | 9:30 – 9:40 A.M. |
| Panel 2 – “An Impartial Jury”
Moderated by Professor Melissa T. Lonegrass, Harriet S. Daggett – Frances Leggio Landry Professor of Law, Bernard Keith Vetter Professor in Louisiana Civil Law Studies, and Wedon T. Smith Professorship in Civil Law, LSU Law Center PRESENTERS: Alexis Hoag, Practitioner-in-Residence, Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights, Lecturer, Columbia Law School Gregory Parks, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University Law School Daniel S. Harawa, Assistant Professor of Practice, Director, Appellate Clinic, Washington University School of Law Brooks Holland, Professor of Law, Donald J. and Va Lena Scarpelli Curran Faculty Chair in Legal Ethics and Professionalism, Director, Global Legal Education, Gonzaga University School of Law Sam Crichton, Assistant District Attorney, Caddo Parish |
9:40 A.M. – 12:10 P.M. |
| Lunch | 12:10 – 12:50 P.M. |
| Panel 3 – The Jury as a Political and Cultural Institution
Moderated by Associate Professor of Law Raff Donelson, LSU Law Center PRESENTERS: Shari Seidman Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, Director, JD/PhD program, Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law Nancy S. Marder, Professor of Law, Director, Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center, Chicago-Kent College of Law Paula Hannaford-Agor, Director, Center for Jury Studies, National Center for State Courts, Adjunct Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School Mary Graw Leary, Professor of Law, Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law |
12:50 – 2:50 P.M. |
| Break | 2:50 – 3:00 P.M. |
| Panel 4 – Perspectives on Ramos v. Louisiana
Moderated by Professor Robert E. Lancaster, J. Nolan and Janice D. Singletary Professor of Professional Practice, Judge Earl E. Veron Professor of Law, and Director of Clinical Legal Education, LSU Law Center PRESENTERS: William Snowden, Director, Vera Institute of Justice, New Orleans Office C. Renée Manes, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, District of Oregon |
3:00 – 4:00 P.M. |
| Panel 5 – Louisiana’s Civil Jury Threshold: A Roundtable Conversation
Moderated by Judge Guy P. Holdridge, Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal, Adjunct Professor of Law, LSU Law Center PRESENTERS: Piper D. Griffin, Judge, Civil District Court, Orleans Parish Harry J. “Skip” Philips, Jr., Partner, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, L.L.P., Adjunct Professor of Law, LSU Law Center J.E. Cullens, Jr., Member, Walters, Papillion, Thomas, Cullens, LLC, Adjunct Professor of Law, LSU Law Center |
4:00 – 5:00 P.M. |