What’s Happening in Federal Court?

Recent Findings and Research Strategies for the Future

ABOUT:

“What’s Happening in Federal Court?” is the inaugural symposium of the Civil Justice Research Initiative at Berkeley Law. It will bring together leading legal scholars and social scientists from around the United States to share their research and discuss the legal process in federal courts around the country. The program will provide a venue for the speakers and participants to evaluate their findings and other recent research, as well as discuss and consider potential strategies for future research in this area.

Monday, April 9, 2018

Symposium: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Opening remarks by Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley Law; Chair, Civil Justice Research Initiative

Reception to follow: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m

Great Hall, Bancroft Hotel
2680 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94704

Supported by a generous gift from the Robert L. Habush Endowment

PARTICIPANTS

Jennie Lee Anderson
- Andrus Anderson LLP
Anne Bloom
- Executive Director, Civil Justice Research Initiative
CHRISTINA L. BOYD
- Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Georgia
Andrew Bradt
- Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Joe S. Cecil, Ph.D., J.D.
- Senior Research Associate and Project Director, Federal Judicial Center
Andrea Cann Chandrasekher
- Acting Professor of Law, UC Davis, School of Law
Erwin Chemerinsky
- Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Sean Farhang
- Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Brian T. Fitzpatrick
- Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
Marc Galanter
- Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School
Jonah B. Gelbach
- Professor of Law, Penn Law

Morgan Hazelton
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, Saint Louis University
Henry Hecht
- John and Elizabeth Boalt Lecturer In Residence, Berkeley Law
Eric Helland, Ph.D.
- William F. Podlich Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College
Gbemende Johnson
- Assistant Professor of Government, Hamilton College
Herbert M. Kritzer
- Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy, Minnesota Law
ALEXANDRA D. LAHAV
- Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law, UCONN Law
Robert S. Peck
- President, Center for Constitutional Litigation
PETER SIEGELMAN
- Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Phillip I. Blumberg Professor of Law, UCONN Law
Shauhin Talesh
- Professor of Law, UCI Law
Margaret S. Williams
- Senior Research Associate, Federal Judicial Center