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Reflections on Iqbal:
Discerning Its Rule, Grappling with Its Implications

Friday, March 26, 2010 • 8:30 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. ET
Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law
Lewis Katz Hall (Carlisle)
Lewis Katz Building (University Park) (Simulcast)

Penn State Law Review is sponsoring a symposium addressing the Supreme Court's decision Ashcroft v. Iqbal and its far-reaching ramifications. Three panels will cover the following: 

  • Iqbal's implications for the role of the courts and judges in providing society with both the opportunity for redress of harms and a common law-based approach to the development of law.
  • An exploration of the majority's reference to purposeful discrimination and what it signals about contemporary understandings of race in America.
  • Iqbal's implications for constitutional tort litigation, including the decision's potential impact on supervisory liability, qualified immunity and the behavior of agency officials operating under adverse conditions.

This program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 6.5 hours of substantive law, practice and procedure CLE credit.

Additional information about the symposium is available on the Penn Statim website.

Register for the symposium. 

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Tentative Agenda
8:30 - 8:40 a.m. Welcome  Professor Nancy Welsh and Justin Houser
8:40 - 9:10 a.m. Opening Keynote Hon. Anthony J. Scirica, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit, Chair, Executive Committee,
U.S. Judicial Conference
9:10 - 10:45 a.m. Iqbal and the
Role of the Courts		 Moderator:
Nancy A. Welsh, Professor of Law, Penn State Law
Panelists: 
Ray Campbell, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law,
Penn State Law
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Professor of Law,
Cornell University Law School
James Maxeiner, Associate Professor of Law, University 
of Baltimore School of Law
Discussion
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 - 12:00 p.m.

 

 Iqbal and
Constitutional Torts
 Moderator:
Kit Kinports, Polisher Family Distinguished Faculty Scholar
and Professor of Law, Penn State Law
Panelists: 
Mark R. Brown, Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler
Chair of Law, Capital University Law School
Gary S. Gildin, Hon. G. Thomas and Anne G. Miller 
Chair in Advocacy and Professor of Law, Penn State Law
James Pfander, Professor of Law, Northwestern
University Law School
12:00 - 1:20 p.m.
 Lunch
1:20 - 2:00 p.m. Panel Two Discussion Continues
2:00 - 2:15 p.m. Break
2:15 - 3:55 p.m. Iqbal and Race

 

 Moderator: 
Victor C. Romero, Maureen B. Cavanaugh Distinguished
Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law, Penn State Law
Panelists: 
Darren Hutchinson, Professor of Law, American
University Washington College of Law 
Ramzi Kassem, Assistant Professor of Law and Director, 
Immigrant and Refugee Rights Clinic, CUNY School of Law
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Clinical Professor and Director,
Center for Immigrants' Rights, Penn State Law
Discussion
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Final Keynote  
 Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal, Judge, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of Texas and Chair,
Judicial Conference Committee on the Rules
of Practice and Procedure and Hon. D. Brooks Smith,
Judge, Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
5:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks


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