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Schedule

“We the Jury: Conversations on the American Jury’s Past, Present, and Future” was held on Friday, January 31, 2020, in McKernan Auditorium from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00 – 8:20 A.M.
Welcoming Address and Opening Remarks – Dean Thomas Galligan 8:20 – 8:30 A.M.
Panel 1 – Historical Perspectives
Presenters:
• Paul Finkelman
• Renée Lerner
8:30 – 9:30 A.M.
Break 9:30 – 9:40 A.M.
Panel 2 – “An Impartial Jury”
Presenters:
• Alexis Hoag
• Gregory Parks
• Daniel Harawa
• Brooks Holland
• Sam Crichton
9:40 A.M. – 12:10 P.M.
Lunch 12:10 – 12:50 P.M.
Panel 3 – The Jury as a Political and Cultural Institution
Presenters:
• Shari Diamond
• Nancy Marder
• Paula Hannaford-Agor
• Mary Graw Leary
12:50 P.M. – 2:50 P.M.
Panel 4 – Perspectives on Ramos v. Louisiana
Presenters:
• William Snowden
• Renée Manes
3:00 – 4:00 P.M.
Panel 5 – Louisiana’s Civil Jury Threshold: A Roundtable Conversation
Presenters:
• Piper Griffin
• William Morvant
• Skip Philips
• J.E. Cullens
4:00 – 5:00 P.M.