Law Journal Conference

Beginning in 2001, the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal has hosted an annual conference on a topic of current and continuing significance in the legal community. The next conference is "The Judiciary in the Twenty-First Century" and will take place on Friday, April 3, 2009, on Loyola's Water Tower Campus at the Law Center. It is the goal of the Law Journal to host a conference that not only has great educational value for Loyola students, but that also has an appeal in the legal community at large. To this end, the "The Judiciary in the Twenty-First Century" conference will explore both the state of the judiciary today and the issues the judiciary will face in the future.

Past conference subjects have included "Taxes in a Liberal Democracy: Exploring the Relationship between Tax Law and Good Governance", "Law and Religion"; "Bush v. Gore One Year Later: A Constitutional Retrospective"; "Technology and Governance: How the Internet Has Changed Our Conceptions of Governance and Institutions"; "Race in Education Policy: A Constitutional Examination"; "Death and Dying: An Examination of End of Life Issues 30 Years after Quinlan"; "The Constitutional and Legal Issues Presented by Same Sex Relationships"; and "Checks and Balances Today: The Reality of Separation of Powers."

 

Law Journal Conference:

The Judiciary in the Twenty-First Century

Friday, April 3, 2009
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Ceremonial Courtroom 
25 E. Pearson St., Chicago, Illinois 

This one-day conference will provide a forum for nationally recognized scholars to come together with practitioners, academics, and students to discuss the issues facing the judiciary today and in the future. More specifically, this conference will explore issues such as regulations and rules of civil procedure, judicial accountability and responsibility, the state of trial law today, and the process of judicial decision making. This program has been approved by the Illinois MCLE Board for 4.5 hours of credit.  For advanced registration and information, please contact Sarah Hesse, Conference Editor, at shesse@luc.edu or (312) 915-7183.

 

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