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Release date: Sept. 18, 2007 Sandra Day O'Connor to Speak at Emory
Contact: Elaine Justice, elaine.justice@emory.edu, 404-727-0643 Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will visit Emory University School of Law Friday, Oct. 19 to convene a conference on "A Fair and Impartial Judiciary." The conference will gather leaders from the legal and business communities to discuss judicial impartiality, independence and accountability, judicial selection, and media coverage of the judiciary. Justice O'Connor will give a keynote address. The purpose of the conference is to provide members of the business and legal communities the opportunity to explore the increasingly rancorous partisanship of judicial elections and to develop recommendations for improvement. Justice O'Connor, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1981 to 2006 as the first female associate justice, continues to speak on the importance of judicial independence and impartiality. "A Fair and Impartial Judiciary" is sponsored by Emory University School of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, Mercer University School of Law, John Marshall Law School, Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business and Emory's Goizueta Business School. The conference is supported financially by the Georgia Bar Foundation and Justice Served Inc. The Sandra Day O'Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center, and the William H. Rehnquist Center at the University of Arizona College of Law have been instrumental in the planning of this conference. A detailed agenda for the conference is listed below. All events are free and open to the public and will take place in Tull Auditorium of the law school, 1301 Clifton Rd. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees are eligible for 4.5 hours of Continuing Legal Education credit for their participation. For more information contact Eadie Bridges at 404-727-6940. Agenda for "A Fair and Impartial Judiciary" Friday, Oct. 19, 2007 8:30-8:50 a.m. Registration 8:50-9 a.m. Welcome by Emory Law Dean David F. Partlett 9-9:30 a.m. Keynote Address by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor 9:30-10:45 a.m. Panel One: "Judicial Impartiality and Accountability" Panelists: Bert Brandenburg, executive director, Justice at Stake 10:45-11 a.m. Break 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Panel Two: "Judicial Selection" Panelists: George Israel, president and CEO, Georgia Chamber of Commerce 12:25-2 p.m. Lunch Break 2:10-3:30 p.m. Panel Three: "Public Understanding of the Role of the Judiciary" Panelists: Tom Baxter, editor, Southern Political Report 3:30-3:45 p.m. Break 3:45-4:15 p.m. Group Presentations 4:15-4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks 4:30-5:30 p.m. Adjourn ### Emory University is one of the nations leading private research universities and a member of the Association of American Universities. Known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities, Emory is ranked as one of the country's top 20 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system. Subscribe to News@Emory RSS feeds for automatic updates of the latest news at Emory. |
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