Prof. Akhil Amar on the Courts and the Constitution in 2024
Date: Dec 19, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
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Non-Member Price: $185.00
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Areas of Law: For All Attorneys
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Keynote
- Akhil Reed Amar
- Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
Moderator
- Justice Barry T. Albin, (Ret.)
- Lowenstein Sandler, LLPwas an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court for 20 years and is a Partner in the Litigation Group of Lowenstein Sandler LLP in Roseland, New Jersey, and Chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice. In addition to his trial and appellate practices, he serves as a neutral arbitrator, special master and mediator in complicated, high-stakes disputes. Justice Albin offers a unique perspective gained over 40 years in the practice of law as a prosecutor, defense attorney, civil litigator and as a Justice of the state’s highest court. As Associate Justice, he authored more than 400 opinions, including more than 230 majority opinions, more than 130 dissents and dozens of concurrences on issues spanning the wide spectrum of the law. He has written on topics including civil rights, criminal law, insurance, employment discrimination, contracts, taxes, municipal government, elections, products liability and mass toxic torts.
Justice Albin is admitted to practice in New Jersey. Prior to his appointment to the high court, he practiced in the public and private sectors, trying approximately 60 jury trials and numerous non-jury cases, and arguing numerous appeals. Justice Albin began his career as a Deputy Attorney General in the Appellate Section of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, and then served as an Assistant Prosecutor in Passaic and Middlesex Counties before entering private practice and ascending to the bench of New Jersey’s court of last resort. He is the recipient of several honors, including the Eugene D. Serpentelli Award bestowed by the New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section and the Lawrence A. Whipple Memorial Award from the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey.
Justice Albin received his B.A. from Rutgers University and his J.D. from Cornell University Law School.
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Presenters
- Hon. Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., U.S.C.A., (Ret.)
- Arnold & Porter
- Jenny-Brooke Condon, Esq.
- Professor of Law
Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark - Jeremy M. Feigenbaum
- Solicitor General of New Jersey
Office of Attorney General, Trenton - Sundeep Iyer
- Director of the Division on Civil Rights
Office of Attorney General, Trenton - Lawrence S. Lustberg, Esq.
- Co-Chair, White Collar & Investigations Group
Gibbons PC, Newarkco-chairs the White Collar & Investigations Group of Gibbons P.C. in Newark, New Jersey, and is a long-time Director of the firm’s John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law, which litigates historic, cutting-edge civil rights and civil liberties cases. He is a recognized authority in constitutional and criminal law and procedure, and is responsible for many seminal federal and state court decisions in a broad range of cases.
Mr. Lustberg is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey; the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York; The District of Connecticut; the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan; the Western District of Oklahoma; the Central District of Illinois; and the District of Colorado; the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits; and the United States Supreme Court. A Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a Lifetime Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, he is Past President of both the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey and the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey. Mr. Lustberg is also former Co-Chair of the Criminal Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association and has served on, and chaired, numerous court and government committees, and non-profit and philanthropic boards of directors. He has been Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Fund for New Jersey and a member of the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, for which he chaired a Subcommittee on Immigration.
Mr. Lustberg has been a member of the faculties of Seton Hall, Rutgers and New York University Law Schools, and his articles have appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal and other publications. The recipient of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey’s highest honor, the Honorable Lawrence A. Whipple Memorial Award, he is the recipient of numerous other awards and accolades, including the Award of Excellence from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the Roger N. Baldwin Civil Liberties Award from the ACLU of New Jersey, the Debevoise-Eakely Award and Board Service Award from Legal Services of New Jersey, the Equality Hall of Fame Award from Garden State Equality and the Partners in Hope Award from Partners for Women and Justice. In 2013 the New Jersey Law Journal named him “Lawyer of the Year” in large part for his work to legalize same-sex marriage in New Jersey.
Mr. Lustberg received his B.A, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and was the recipient of the International Graduate School Fellowship at the University of Stockholm. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and clerked for the Honorable H. Lee Sarokin, United States District Judge.
(9/23)
Renowned Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar, also star of the podcast “Amarica’s Constitution,” returns for a thoughtful and lively discussion about the U.S. Supreme Court’s last 12 months.
Join the NJSBA for a fascinating, fast-paced and entertaining conversation with this recognized thought leader in the law. As an attendee, you’ll hear Amar’s unique perspectives and analysis into the most controversial cases of the Supreme Court’s recent term.
Our stellar panel of speakers includes two former United States Supreme Court law clerks: New Jersey Solicitor General Jeremy Feigenbaum who clerked for Justice Elena Kagan and New Jersey Division of Civil Rights Director Sundeep Iyer who clerked for Justices David H. Souter and Stephen G. Breyer, as well as for then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Here are just a few of the holdings and issues from the last few months that could affect your practice:
- President Joe Biden announced initiatives for Supreme Court reform, including term limits on justices and new ethics rules. What are the constitutional implications of this and how might it affect the future of the Supreme Court?
- The Supreme Court’s holding in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Counsel will have a wide-ranging impact on all regulatory agencies.
- Under Trump vs. United States, the president may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts.
- Regarding gun control, the Supreme Court ruled in United States vs. Rahimi that individuals found to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another individual may be temporarily disarmed under the Second Amendment.
- In Trump v Anderson, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the states, responsible for enforcing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against federal officeholders and candidates. Under the ruling, the Supreme Court found that the Colorado Supreme Court erred in ordering former President Donald Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot.
All of these cases, including others from the Supreme Court’s recent term, raise questions about the Constitution and how it applies to issues that affect our lives and the lives of our clients.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to gain key insights, answers and more. After Amar’s keynote address, he will be joined by a round table of notable NJSBA members to continue the discussion. Questions and comments from the audience will be welcome.
Register for the On-Site Program and Receive a Complimentary Book
Choose from either: “The Words that Made Us - America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840” or “America’s Constitution – A Biography.” Amar will autograph a book for anyone at the New Jersey Law Center.
Amar also presents a popular weekly podcast, “Amarica’s Constitution” hosted by Andy Lipka. The NJSBA is a proud co-sponsor of the podcast and makes CLE credit available for it.
About Prof. Amar:
Prof. Akhil Reed Amar teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale and clerking for then Judge (now Justice) Stephen Breyer, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. His work has won awards from both the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, and he has been cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in more than 41 cases—tops in his generation, and indeed among all active scholars.
He regularly testifies before Congress at the invitation of both parties; and in surveys of judicial citations and/or scholarly citations, he invariably ranks among America’s five most-cited mid-career legal scholars. In 2008 he received the DeVane Medal—Yale’s highest award for teaching excellence. He has written widely for popular publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and The Atlantic and is the author of dozens of law review articles and several books. He was an informal consultant to the popular TV show The West Wing, and his constitutional scholarship has been showcased on The Colbert Report, The O’Reilly Factor, and Constitution USA with Peter Sagal. He is Yale’s only active professor to have won the University’s unofficial triple crown—the Sterling Chair for scholarship, the DeVane Medal for teaching, and the Lamar Award for alumni service.
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