Panel III: The Judicial Power and Evaluating Judicial Supremacy

This year, the Harvard Federalist Society Chapter hosted the 43rd annual National Student Symposium at Harvard Law School. Symposium panels focused on fundamental questions about our nation’s constitutional structure and the allocation of power between the three branches of government, in keeping with the conference’s theme: Why Separate Powers? Panel III: The Judicial Power and Evaluating Judicial Supremacy New presidential administrations start with a flurry of administrative actions. These fresh rules, guidelines, and procedures in turn face judicial scrutiny from the moment they are finalized. Oversight from the judiciary can keep agencies accountable and within the bounds of the law. But when judges get the final say on everything the executive does, policies can take years—even decades—to implement and can fluctuate wildly with the ebbs and flows of litigation. Has something gone awry with the way judges are “saying what the law is”? Featuring: Prof. John C. Harrison, James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law Prof. Amanda L. Tyler, Shannon C. Turner Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law Prof. Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Prof. Gary S. Lawson, Associate Dean for Intellectual Life and Philip S. Beck Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law Moderator: Hon. Benjamin Beaton, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky