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start date and time: Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 9:00 AM

end date and time: Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 5:45 PM

categories:   legal & courtroom   business & financial

event description:

video webcast -

Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. presents its Conference on the State of the Judiciary - Our Courts and Corporate Citizenship. The conference, sponsored by the Sandra Day O'Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown Law, will examine the benefits and challenges of the relationship between corporations and the courts.

Schedule for the conference (Eastern time):

9:00 – 9:05 a.m. - Welcome
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

9:05 – 9:15 a.m. - Opening Remarks
Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

9:15 - 9:20 a.m. - Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker
John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University

9:20 – 9:40 a.m. - Keynote Address
Alan Greenspan, former Chairman, United States Federal Reserve
"Markets and the Judiciary"

9:40 – 10:35 a.m. - Panel I - Independent Courts as a Precondition to Open Markets

- Kenneth Frazier, Executive Vice President and President, Global Human Health, Merck & Co., Inc.

- C. Boyden Gray, former Special Envoy for European Union Affairs

- Bradford L. Smith, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation

- Viet D. Dinh, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. - Panel II - Can Corporations be Brought Back to Courts as a Dispute Resolution Mechanism? Should They?

- Kenneth Feinberg, Managing Partner and Founder, The Feinberg Group LLP, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

- Randy J. Holland, Justice, Delaware Supreme Court

- Ramona E. Romero, Corporate Counsel and Manager of Law Firm Partnering, DuPont

- Fern M. Smith, JAMS, The Resolution Experts

- Catherine Herridge, National Correspondent, FOX News (moderator)

12:00 – 1:45 p.m. - Lunch: Report on Judicial Salaries

- D. Brock Hornby, Judge, United States District Court, District of Maine

- Bernard W. Nussbaum, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

- Meryl J. Chertoff, Director, Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)

3:15 – 3:35 p.m. - Remarks
Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

3:35 – 4:35 p.m. - Panel III -State Judicial Races – How Can Corporations Help Stop the Campaign Funding 'Arms Race?'

- Louis Butler, Justice, Retired, Wisconsin Supreme Court

- Thomas Gottschalk, Of Counsel, Kirkland and Ellis LLP

- Theodore Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP

- Adam Liptak, National Legal Correspondent, New York Times (moderator)

5:30 – 5:45 p.m. - Closing Remarks
Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

sponsor's website: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/