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2024 Annual Supreme Court Review

July 10, 2024

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Distinguished legal scholars and Supreme Court analysts Erwin Chemerinsky, Miguel Estrada, Mary Anne Franks, Gregory G. Garre, and Frederick Lawrence review the important cases of the term including social media moderation, deference to administrative agencies, reproductive rights, and presidential criminal liability. They also discuss what to expect at the Supreme Court next year. Journalist Amy Howe moderates. This program was presented in partnership with ADL.

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Mary Ann Franks is the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law at The George Washington University Law School. She is also the president and legislative and tech policy director of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating online abuse and discrimination, and the author of the forthcoming book, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment.

Miguel Estrada is a partner at Gibson Dunn, who has argued 24 cases before the United States Supreme Court and briefed many others. He previously served as assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, and assistant U.S. Attorney and deputy chief of the Appellate Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York.

Frederick Lawrence is the 10th secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s first and most prestigious honor society. Lawrence is a distinguished lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center, and has previously served as president of Brandeis University, dean of the George Washington University Law School, and visiting professor and senior research scholar at Yale Law School.

Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at Berkeley Law. He previously served as the founding dean and distinguished professor of law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He is the author of numerous books on constitutional law topics, including his forthcoming book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States.  

Amy Howe is a journalist who writes about the Supreme Court for her eponymous blog, Howe on the Court. Until September 2016, Howe served as the editor and a reporter for SCOTUSblog; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there.

Gregory Garre is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Latham & Watkins and global chair of the firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice. He previously served as the 44th Solicitor General of the United States; and as principal deputy Solicitor General and as an assistant to the Solicitor General. He has argued over 48 cases before the Supreme Court.

Additional Resources:

United States v. Rahimi (2024)

Trump v. United States (2024)

Moody v. NetChoice (2024)

NetChoice v. Paxton (2024)

Lindke v. Freed (2024)

NRA v. Vullo (2024)

Murthy v. Missouri (2024)

Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024)

SEC v. Jarkesy (2024)

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2024)

Moyle v. United States (2024)

Idaho v. United States (2024)

Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP (2024)

Trump v. Anderson (2024)

Glossip v. Oklahoma

United States v. Skrmetti

Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton

Garland v. VanDerStok

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