Please join us for the Annual BU Law Review Conference to discuss “Presidentialism and the Escalation of Executive Power.”
To view each days schedule and learn more about each panel, please click on the drop down sections below.
Wednesday, October 21st
Wednesday, October 21st
Lunch “pre-note” Keynote, 12:45-2 pm:
Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law), “History and Tribalism in Constitutional Law”
Moderated by Jed Handelsman Shugerman
Barristers Hall, Boston University School of Law
Please view the abstract and paper here.
Thursday, October 22nd
Thursday, October 22nd
4:20-6:20 pm
Classroom 103, First Floor
Welcome: Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Panel 1: Big-Picture on the Rise of Presidentialism:
- Ashraf Ahmed (Columbia) “Justifying the Presidency?”
- Joshua Macey (Yale) and Brian Richardson (Cornell) “Separation-of-powers Formalisms”
- Bijal Shah (Boston College) “The Deeper State”
- Diego Zambrano (Stanford) & Mila Versteeg (Virginia) “Great Expectations: How to Restore the Rule of Law”
- Guy-Uriel Charles (Harvard), commentator
- Steve Koh, (BU), chair
Friday, October 23rd
Friday, October 23rd
Classroom 103, First Floor
9:05am Welcome from BU Law Review Editors, Hayle Chen (Editor-in-Chief) and Anna Saum (Senior Managing Editor)
Classroom 103, First Floor
Panel 2: Immigration/Domestic Militarized Enforcement (9:10-10:30 am)
- Timothy Zick (William & Mary) “Federalizing Protest Policing.”
- Sarah Sherman-Stokes (BU) “Ideological Exclusion: from John Turner to Mahmoud Khalil”
- Karen Pita-Loor (BU) “What’s in a Name? The Branding of Anti-ICE Activism as Domestic Terrorism”
- Jennifer Chacon (Stanford), commentator
- Zohra Ahmed(BU), chair
Classroom 103, First Floor
Panel 3: Legal interventions to executive overreach (Friday 11-12:20)
- Corinne Blalock, Harvard LPE, NYC Policy Forum “Municipal Resistance: Mamdani and the Limits of Presidential Power.”
- Aaron Nielson, Texas “Ending the Heady Days of In re Debs.”
- Ilya Somin, George Mason/Cato “Tariffs, Nondelegation, and Major Questions.”
- Erez Reuveni, Democracy Forward, former DOJ, commentator
- Aziza Ahmed (BU), chair
Friday lunch keynote: Richard Revesz (NYU), The Structure of the Executive Branch in the Slaughter Era.
Moderated by Jed Shugerman (BU)
Classroom 103, First Floor
Panel 4: Presidentialism and Political Economy (Friday 2:10-3:30 pm)
- Julie Cohen (Georgetown) “Where Are the Missing Markets? An Institutional Perspective on the Rise of Unaccountable Elites”
- Hiba Hafiz (BC)“Unitary Executive Theory and Local Oligarchy”
- Ganesh Sitaraman (Vanderbilt)“The Asymmetric Unitary Executive”
- Amy Kapczynski, commentator
- Madison Condon (BU), chair
Classroom 103, First Floor
Panel 5: Administrative Law #1 (Friday, 4:00-5:20 pm)
- Andrew Elmore (BU) “Contestation and Accountability after Slaughter and Cook“
- Ethan Leib (Fordham) (with Jed Shugerman, BU) “A Faithful Execution Canon: When to Apply a Presumption of Irregularity”
- Matthew Segal & Nellie Conover-Crockett (ACLU) “Is the Westfall Act unconstitutional? Rethinking state sovereignty and converse-1983 statutes.”
- Chris Walker (Michigan), commentator
- Jody Freeman (Harvard), commentator
- Anya Bernstein (BU), chair & commentator
Saturday, October 24th
Saturday, October 24th
Classroom 103, First Floor
Panel 6: Administrative Law #2 (Sat 9:30-10:50)
- John Harrison (Virginia) “Administrative Adjudication and the Unitary Executive After Trump v. Slaughter”
- Matthew Stephenson (Harvard), “Presidential Directives and Arbitrariness Review”
- Jodi Short (UC at SF) “Asymmetrical Accountability: Presidential Control in Action in the Second Trump Administration”
- Gillian Metzger (Columbia), commentator
- Jack Beermann (BU), chair & commentator
Classroom 103, First Floor
Panel 7, Sat 11:20-12:40: Democracy and Rule of Law
- Aziz Huq (Chicago) (paper w/ Tom Ginsburg) “Exhuming the Impetuous Vortex”
- Robert Tsai (BU) “The Judge’s Dilemma in a Populist Age”
- Jim Fleming (BU), chair
Panel 8 (Lunch, 1-2:20 pm): 20th Century Rise of Presidentialism:
- Jane Manners (Fordham) “The Anti-Unitary Roots of Nondelegation: Schechter/Humphrey’s”
- Rafi Stern (BU) “Was the APA a Grand Compromise?”
- Andrea Scoseria Katz (Washington U.) “How to Build a President: Executive Branch Lawyering, Social Movements, and the Constitutional Construction of the Unitary Executive, from Nixon to Roberts.”
- Andrew Kent (Fordham) “The Expansive Executive Power Clause”
- Noah Rosenblum (NYU), commentator
- Nick Parrillo (Yale), commentator
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