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O'Connell Conference | | | | Event Description - O'Connell Conference |
The UO Law School and the OSB Appellate Section invite you to Eugene
for the O'Connell Conference & a Ducks Football Game and Tailgate
Party!
The Conference will be at the UO Law School on Friday,
September 5, 2008, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Approved for 6 CLE credits.
Cost for the Conference (including lunch and all the social activities
described below) is $150.00.
The Game and Tailgater is at Autzen Stadium, Saturday, September 6
Ducks v. Utah State
To Register for the Conference please contact the Oregon State Bar CLE department at (503) 431-6413 or (800) 452-8260 ext. 413
The conference topic is: 21st Century Challenges to the Judiciary:
Judicial Independence, Popular Constitutionalism, and Judicial Elections
The
morning session will focus on recent threats to judicial independence
both in the US and abroad. Our speakers will address challenges to the
institutional integrity of our judiciary, as well as the struggle to
create and maintain independent judiciaries in Russia, Ukraine and
Pakistan. Our speakers will include: Chief Justice De Muniz from the
Oregon Supreme Court; Peter Wonacott, Senior South Asia Correspondent
for The Wall Street Journal, who covered and will discuss the judicial
crisis in Pakistan when President Musharraf dismissed the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court; and Liliya Katerinchuk, a judge on the High
Commercial Court in Ukraine who will discuss the challenges of creating
an independent judiciary in Ukraine.
The afternoon session will
focus on the question to what extent and in what manner the People
should play a role in interpreting the Constitution. Stanford Law
School Dean Larry Kramer, author of the controversial book The People
Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, will join
former Justice Hans Linde and Professor Rachel Caufield of Drake
University Law School in assessing the relationship between the public
and the courts in interpreting the Constitution. Should courts have
the final word on constitutional meaning? If so, do elected judiciaries
solve the counter-majoritarian dilemma? If not, how can constitutional
meaning ever be determined with finality? Or clarity?
To view the agenda, click here.
Social
Activities: Following the conference, there will be a hosted reception
and dinner. Conference participants will also receive one free ticket*
to the Ducks football game on September 6, which will include a
tailgate party sponsored by the UO Law School.
Bringing a spouse or friend? We
have a limited number of extra football tickets for $42; the cost to
bring a friend to the cocktail party and dinner is $35.00. If you
would like an extra football ticket or plan to bring a friend to the
cocktail party and dinner, please contact Rachel Johnson at (541)
346-3865, or email raj@uoregon.edu to make those arrangements. * For
the first 100 registrants - If you will not need your free ticket,
please let Rachel Johnson know so that we can pass it along to someone
who can use it. Thank you.
Accommodations in Eugene: We have reserved a block of rooms at three Eugene Hotels. Please call the hotels directly, soon, to reserve a room. Since this is a football weekend, the hotels will not hold the rooms for too long:
Phoenix Inn Suites
850 Franklin Blvd.
Eugene, OR. 97403
(541) 344-0001
9/4-5 $109
9/6 $179
Residence Inn by Marriott
25 Club Road
Eugene, OR. 97401
(541) 342-7171
$169
Valley River Inn
1000 Valley River Way
Eugene, OR. 97401
(541) 341-3472
$159
To Register for the Conference please contact the Oregon State Bar CLE department at (503) 431-6413 or (800) 452-8260 ext. 413
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