Schedule

The 2016 Symposium will take place on January 22 in the McKernan Auditorium. Below you will find a list of our planned activities.

Activity	Time
Registration and Continental Breakfast	7:45 – 8:10
Opening Remarks Interim Co-Dean Bill Corbett, LSU Law Center	8:10 – 8:15
Keynote Address Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana	8:15 – 8:45
Panel 1 – Louisiana Practitioner Roundtable Moderator: The Honorable Scott Crichton (’80), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana Speakers: Lauren Anderson (’13), Orleans Public Defenders Office James Boren (’75), James Boren Law Firm Bernard “Bernie” Boudreaux (’61), Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison LLC Hillar Moore, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Mike Walsh (’83), Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, L.L.P. Judge John E. Conery, Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal	8:45 – 10:15
Break	10:15 – 10:30
Presentation 1-Organizational Sentencing Guidelines Kenya Smith, Associate Professor, Arizona Summit Law School	10:30 – 11:30
Lunch	11:30 – 12:30
Presentation 2 – Juvenile Sentencing Practices Katherine Hunt Federle, Professor, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law	12:30 – 1:30
Panel 2 – Historical Perspectives on U.S. Sentencing Moderator: Associate Dean Ray Diamond, LSU Law Center Speakers: Paul Finkelman, Visiting Professor, University of Saskatchewan College of Law Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	1:30 – 3:00
Break	3:00 – 3:15
Panel 3 – Philosophical and Rational Considerations Moderator: Professor Ken Levy, LSU Law Center Speakers: Kevin Bennardo, Professor, Robert H. McKinney School of Law Russell Christopher, Professor, The University of Tulsa College of Law Tamara Lawson, Professor, St. Thomas University School of Law	3:15 – 4:45