Professor Akhil Amar on the US Supreme Court and the Constitution 2025
Date: Nov 20, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $179.00
Non-Member Price: $224.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: For All Attorneys, Government, Public Sector & Public Interest
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.
(9/23)
Presenters
- Hon. Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., U.S.C.A., (Ret.)
- Arnold & Porter
- Jenny-Brooke B. Condon, Esq.
- Associate Dean/Constitutional Law Professor, Seton Hall Law Schl Faculty
- Jeremy M. Feigenbaum, Solicitor General
- Solicitor General of New Jersey
Office of Attorney General, Trenton - Sundeep Iyer
- Acting Executive Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General, Trenton
Renowned Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar, also star of the podcast “Amarica’s Constitution,” returns for a thoughtful and lively discussion about the 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.
Professor Amar’s much-anticipated keynote address will include a discussion of his latest book, “Born Equal – Remaking America’s Constitution 1840-1920.” (It will be distributed to everyone who attends in person.) This book has been called “the definitive history” of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution and our democracy, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to women’s suffrage. “Born Equal” is a sequel to the best-selling “The Words that Made Us -America’s Constitutional Conversation -1760-1840.”
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