2003

Conference Program

8:00 AM

Brunch

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Welcoming Remarks

Stuart Rabinowitz, Hofstra University
David N. Yellen, Hofstra University School of Law
Roy D. Simon, Hofstra University School of Law
Monroe Freedman, Hofstra University School of Law

11:00 AM - 11:10 AM

Keynote Address: Judicial Ethics in the Twenty-First Century – Tracing the Trends

Roger J. Miner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

The Future of Judicial Speech

Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., University of Pennsylvania Law School
Gerald Stern, New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct
Nancy Gertner, U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts
Thomas Penfield Jackson, U.S. District Court District of Columbia
Thomas J. Spargo, New York Supreme Court Third Judicial District

12:45 PM - 1:55 AM

Coffee Break

1:55 PM - 2:10 PM

The Office of Judge: Why it Is Special and the Concomitant Ethics

Charles Fried, Harvard Law School

2:10 PM - 3:00 PM

Panel of Reporters/Observers of Judicial Conduct

Adam Cohen, New York Times
Nancy Katz, New York Daily News
Tony Kovaleski, KMGH-TV, Denver
Adam Liptak, New York Times
Tony Mauro, Legal Times
Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Banquet

The New Huntington Townhouse

6:30 PM

Banquet Address

Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School

7:00 PM

Breakfast

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Judicial Disqualification Due to Relatives’ Association with a Law Firm of Record

Leslie W. Abramson, University of Louisville Law School

9:00 AM

Judges’ Ethics and Sentencing Guidelines

David N. Yellen, Hofstra University School of Law

9:45 AM

The Inner World of Judges

Isaiah Zimmerman, National Judicial College

10:30 AM

Judicial Nullification: Judicial Ethics and Judges’ Morality

Paul Butler, The George Washington University Law School

11:15 AM

Luncheon

Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Those Unpublished Opinions: An Appropriate Expedience or an Abdication of Responsibility?

Lawrence Fox, Drinker Biddle & Reath

1:15 PM

The Real Issues of Judicial Ethics

Alex Kozinski, Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

2:15 PM

Coffee Break

2:55 PM - 3:10 PM

Defense-Oriented Judges

Abbe Smith, Georgetown University Law Center

3:15 PM

The Judicial Function: Justice Between Parties, or a Broader Public Interest?

Richard A. Zitrin, University of San Francisco School of Law

4:15 PM

Breakfast

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Judicial Correctness Meets Constitutional Correctness: Canon 2C of the Code of Judicial Conduct

Andrew Kaufman, Harvard Law School

9:00 AM

The Line Between Legal Error and Judicial Misconduct: Balancing Judicial Independence and Accountability

Cynthia Gray, Center for Judicial Ethics, American Judicature Society

10:00 AM

Judicial Responsibility in a Time of Crisis

Shira A. Scheindlin, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

11:00 AM

Luncheon

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Making the Case One’s Own

John T. Noonan Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

1:15 PM

Disciplining Judges for Failure to Ensure Due Process to Litigants

Gerald Stern, New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct

2:15 PM

Coffee Break

2:55 PM - 3:10 PM

Due Process and the Ethical Responsibilities of the Judiciary in Criminal Cases

Richard Klein, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

3:15 PM

Hamlet in the District Court: Facing Personal Ethical Dilemmas

Jack B. Weinstein, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

4:15 PM