Friday, February 25
Saturday, February 26
1:00 p.m. Symposium Welcome
9:00 a.m. Panel Discussion
Associate Dean Martha
Dragich Pearson and
Professor Christina E. Wells
University of Missouri-Columbia
School of Law
Presenters
1:15 p.m. Panel Discussion
A Discussion Following the Release
of the Blackmun Papers
Presenters
Supreme Court Correspondent
Tony Mauro
Legal Times/American Lawyer Media
Lifting the Veil: Justice Blackmun’s
Papers and the Public Perception of
the Supreme Court
Professor Joseph F. Kobylka
Southern Methodist University
Department of Political Science
Tales from the Blackmun Papers:
A Fuller Appreciation of Harry
Blackmun’s Judicial Legacy
Professor Ellen E. Deason
Ohio State University
Moritz College of Law
Recollections Refreshed
Professor Gregory C. Sisk
University of St. Thomas
School of Law
The Willful Judging of Harry
Blackmun
February 25-26, 2005
T
his symposium examines the role of judges
in our constitutional order and the factors
that influence judicial decision-making by gathering
experts in various fields, including law, political
science, psychology and journalism, as well as
members of the judiciary. Discussing topics ranging
Professor Richard C. Reuben
University of Missouri-Columbia
School of Law
from Justice Blackmun’s legal legacy, to the public’s
4:30 p.m. Nelson Lecture
Welcome
Dean R. Lawrence Dessem
University of Missouri-Columbia
School of Law
Hon. W. Duane Benton
United States Circuit Judge
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
The Burger-Blackmun Relationship:
Lessons for Collegiality
10:15 a.m. Panel Discussion
Commentators
Associate Dean Martha
Dragich Pearson
University of Missouri-Columbia
School of Law
Hon. Colleen McMahon
United States District Judge
Southern District of
New York
The Strange Monastic Life of a
Federal Judge
perception of the courts, to the role of politics,
judgment and psychology in judicial decisionmaking, the symposium hopes to provide greater
insight into the act of judging.
4:45 p.m. Keynote Address
Professor Suzanna Sherry
Vanderbilt University Law School
Politics and Judgment
SCHOOL OF LAW
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
Presenters
Professor Theodore Ruger
University of Pennsylvania
Law School
Justice Blackmun and Judicial
Independence: Variations on a
Theme
Professor Daniel Farber
University of California
School of Law, Boalt Hall
Deciding Constitutional Questions
Professor Lawrence S.
Wrightsman
University of Kansas
Department of Psychology
Why Do Supreme Court Justices
Succeed or Fail? Harry Blackmun
as an Example
Commentators
Professor Robert Pushaw
Pepperdine University
School of Law
Professor Margaret E. (Peggy)
McGuinness
University of Missouri-Columbia
School of Law
Professor Christina E. Wells
University of Missouri-Columbia
School of Law