Supreme Court Review Conference

Important Decisions of the 2008-2009 Term

 

On October 3, 2009, the Law School's Institute for Legislative and Governmental Affairs hosted the Fourteenth Annual Review of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States during the preceding Term of the Court. The presentations can be watched employing either QuickTime or Flash. As is always true of video archives on the web, the video requires a broadband connection to the internet.

Introductions by Professor Arthur Wolf, Director of the Institute for Legislative and Governmental Affairs and Dean Arthur Gaudio, Dean of Western New England University School of Law. QuickTime® Version  | Flash® Version
Professor Leora Harpaz — Justice Souter Signs Off: Strip Searches, Monuments, and Confessions QuickTime® Version  | Flash® Version
Professor Erin Buzuvis — Employment Discrimination and Voting Rights: Supreme Court Rulings Narrow Statutory Protection Against Race Discrimination but Leave Constitution Intact QuickTime® Version  | Flash® Version
Professor Arthur Leavens — Is Everybody (Anybody) Happy?  Ratcheting Up Protection Against Car Searches and the Right to Confrontation, but Loosening Up the Exclusionary Rule and the Right to Counsel QuickTime® Version  | Flash® Version
Professor Bruce Miller — How the Obvious has Become Implausible: Notice Pleading Becomes the  Latest Casualty in the War on Terror QuickTime® Version  | Flash® Version
Panel Discussion — Discussion among the audience and Professors Wolf, Harpaz, Buzuvis, Leavens and Miller QuickTime® Version  | Flash® Version