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What Every Practitioner Needs to Know About the U.S. Constitution

Date: Sep 17, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.

Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online

Member Price: $179.00

Non-Member Price: $224.00

Section Price: $0.00

Event Code: I003525

Areas of Law: Federal Practice & Procedure

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Faculty

Keynote

Moderator

Donald Scarinci, Esq.
Scarinci & Hollenbeck LLC, Little Falls

Presenters

Justice Rachel Wainer Apter
New Jersey Supreme Court
Ian Drake, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Montclair State University, Montclair
Jeremy M. Feigenbaum
Solicitor General of New Jersey
Office of Attorney General, Trenton
Ronald J. Riccio, Esq.
McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, Tinton Falls
Celebrate Constitution Day by learning about the U.S. Constitution! Revive your history skills in this seminar as you learn from a distinguished panel of constitutional law scholars, a state Supreme Court justice, solicitor general and law school dean. Start the morning with a review of the history of the U.S. Constitution. Learn how the U.S. Constitution came to be and how the document itself works. Move into present-day history, with a review of the application of the U.S. Constitution in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court over the past two years. The seminar will transition to a review of constitutional cases currently pending before the Court. The program will wrap up with the question-and-answer segment. There is no better way to commemorate the U.S. Constitution on Constitution Day. Register now!


Program Agenda:

  • 9:00 | Opening Remarks and Introductions - Donald Scarinci, Esq.

  • 9:10 | Section I:

    • The history of the Declaration of Independence, through the history and creation of the U.S. Constitution - Dr. Ian Drake
    • A brief overview of the structure of the U.S. Constitution; how a case gets to the U.S. Supreme Court - Justice Rachel Wainer Apter

  • 10:40 | Break

  • 10:50 | Section II

    • Separation of powers: the evolving power of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government – Dean Ronald J. Riccio, Esq.
      - Framers’ original intent in horizontally (legislative, executive, and judicial branches) and vertically (federal/state governments via federalism) separating powers of federal government to preserve individual liberty by avoiding concentration of power.
      - The constitutional power of the legislative branch and the delegation of legislative power to the executive branch by enactment of specific statutes and creation of many federal agencies.
      - The constitutional power of the judicial branch, restraints on that power, theories of constitutional interpretation, disregard of Supreme Court decisions, and the importance of the legitimacy of the exercise of judicial power.
      - The constitutional power of the executive branch, the rise of executive branch power in foreign affairs (war power, executive agreements, judicial grant to president of broad power in foreign affairs), the rise of executive power in domestic affairs (control of federal agencies/departments, expansive use of executive orders, unilateral use of tariffs, impoundment, presidential immunity, etc.).
    • Analysis and discussion of the key decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court term – Jeremy Feigenbaum, Esq., Solicitor General

  • 12:25 | Q&A

  • 12:35 | Adjourn

CLE Credits
NJ CLE:NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 4 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ General: 4.0).
NY CLE (t&nt):NY Professional Practice Non-Transitional: 4.0
PA CLE:PA Substantive Credit: 3.0
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program.

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