Announcing the fifth-annual Scarpa Conference at Villanova Law

I am pleased to announce the fifth-annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics, and Culture.  The focus of this year's Conference is a monumental new book, published in June by Yale University Press, A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution, by William N. Eskridge, Jr., and John Ferejohn, who will co-keynote the Conference.  William Eskridge is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School (http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/WEskridge.htm) and John Ferejohn is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stanford University (http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/ferejohn.html), Charles Seligson Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and Professor of Political Science at New York University.

 

Other confirmed speakers include:

 

-Associate Justice David Stras, Minnesota Supreme Court; formerly a member of the University of Minnesota Law faculty (http://www.mncourts.gov/?page=JudgeBio_v2&menu=appellate&ID=30536);

-Martin Shapiro, James W. & Isabel Coffroth Professor, Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall) (http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=105)

-Kristin Hickman, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School (http://www.law.umn.edu/facultyprofiles/hickmanke.html)

-Henry Paul Monaghan, Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law, Columbia Law School (http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Henry_Monaghan)

-Thomas Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Thomas_Merrill)

-Theodore Ruger, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School (http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/truger/)

-Jane Schacter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor and Associate Dean, Stanford Law School (http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/133/Jane%20Schacter/) 

-Patrick Brennan, John F. Scarpa Chair, Villanova University School of Law

 

Please mark your calendars for Friday, February 11, 2010, and plan to join us at Villanova for what promises to be an extraordinary discussion of law, jurisprudence, and the political process.  I'll post more details as they become available.