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The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics,
and the Media at Syracuse University
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Calendar of Upcoming Events
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IJPM organizes symposia and individual lectures throughout the academic year. A schedule of upcoming events is listed below.
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Spring 2010
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Third Annual Law, Politics, and the Media Lecture Series
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3:50 p.m., February 15, 2010 — April 26, 2010
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College of Law
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The American judicial system today operates in a complex environment of legal principle, political pressure, and media coverage. The separate elements of this complex environment are typically studied by different groups of individuals working from different perspectives. Law faculty tend to focus on legal principle; political scientists examine the influence of politics; and scholars of public communications assess the media.
The goal of this lecture series is to serve as an introduction to the court system and its environment as a single, integrated subject of study. In the past, the lecture series featured sitting judges, practicing lawyers, and working journalists. This year the lecture series will feature practicing lawyers, published authors, leading scholars and court researchers.
Beginning February 15, 2010, IJPM will begin it's third lecture series in conjunction with the Law, Politics, and the Media course offered at the College of Law. To see the list of speakers for this year's series, click here.
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EVENT PARTICIPANTS
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Amy Bach
Author, Professor, University of Rochester
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Amy Bach is a graduate of Stanford Law School and a member of the New York bar. She has written on law as a freelance journalist for The Nation, The American Lawyer, and New York magazine, among other publications. For her recently published book, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court, Bach received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship. She was also a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow and Yale Law School. She lives in Rochester, New York, and she teaches a course in American politics called "Courts, Community, and Injustice" at University of Rochester.
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Dr. Shannon Bowen
Professor, Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
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Dr. Bowen is Associate Professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in the Public Relations Department. Her research interests include communication and media ethics, public relations ethics and theory, organizational communication, the strategic management of issues in the pharmaceutical industry, and the ethical decisions by media members surrounding representations of acts of terrorism. Dr. Bowen teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public relations theory, public relations ethics, and strategic issues management. Dr. Bowen is primarily a Kantian scholar, applying deontological (duty-based) moral philosophy to the communication process in various contexts of media, public, and corporate communication. Her work won the 2000-2002 ICA Public Relations Division Outstanding Dissertation Award. She is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and textbook chapters in Effective Public Relations and other books. She was editorial advisor to the Sage Encyclopedia of Public Relations, and was the principal investigator on a grant sponsored by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Research Foundation to study communication ethics, resulting in the 2006 publication "The Business of Truth: A Guide to Ethical Communication." Dr. Bowen received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in Communication and Mass Communication. She received her M.A. from the University of South Carolina in Journalism and Mass Communications and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Journalism and Sociology.
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Robert Freeman
Executive Director, Committee on Open Government, New York Department of State
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Robert J. Freeman, Esq. is the Executive Director of the Committee on Open Government with the New York Department of State. Before becoming executive director of the Committee in 1976, Mr. Freeman had been it's counsel. He received his law degree from New York University and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Freeman has spoken before numerous government related organizations, bar associations, media groups, and has lectured at various colleges and universities. He has also discussed open government laws and concepts in Canada, the far east, Latin America, and eastern Europe. In 1982, the New York State Society of Newspaper Editors presented Mr. Freeman with its Friend of the Free Press Award and in 1992 he was given the First Amendment award by the New York Press Association. The New York City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Deadline Club, presented him with its First Amendment Award in 1994. He was presented with the Governor Alfred E. Smith Award by the Empire State Capital Area Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration in 1996 for outstanding individual service and initiative exemplifying superior management and administration and was made a Fellow of the State Academy for Public Administration. In 1999, Freeman was cited in Empire State Report, New York's "Independent Magazine of Politics, Policy and the Business of Government," as one of "25 Empire State Residents" during the past 25 years "whose public service, determination, idealism or gut instincts resulted in sweeping improvements in the lives of fellow New Yorkers." He was given the Distinguished Public Service Award by the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany in 2000. Most recently, Freeman was honored by the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Attorneys in Public Service with the 2005 Award for Excellence in Public Service. He is currently service as adjunct professor at the Albany Law School and teaches the only course in an American law school on public access to government information.
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Jonathan Greene
Writer, Law and Order SVU
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Jonathan Greene is a writer and co-executive producer for the NBC television series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," on which he just completed his tenth season. He came to dramatic television after a career in broadcast journalism spanning 15 years, beginning as a radio reporter and moving to television as a news producer and executive in stations spanning Upstate New York and New York City, Florida, New England, North Carolina and Ohio. He last served as writer, producer, and director of documentaries at Court TV (now TruTV). His last documentary, "The Interrogation of Michael Crowe," earned him and the network a DuPont-Columbia Award. During his tenure at SVU, Greene's episodes have contributed to the show's many honors, including Emmy nominations for lead actors Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay and a guest-star Emmy win for film icon Leslie Caron. He has been a finalist for the Humanitas Prize and the Edgar Allen Poe Award given by the Mystery Writers of America. In addition, his episodes have won SVU the Golden Psi Award from the America Psychological Association, the Socially Responsible Media Award given by the Physicians for Social Responsibility and three Prism Commendations from the Entertainment Industries Council. Greene holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in communications from Syracuse University. He and his family reside in Los Angeles.
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James Haggerty
President and CEO, The PR Consulting Group, Inc.
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James F. Haggerty, President and CEO of The PR Consulting Group, is an attorney with more than twenty years’ experience in marketing, public relations and public affairs. Among the nation’s best-known experts in litigation communications, Jim has also earned a national reputation in environmental issues, professional services marketing, public affairs and crisis management. In addition to advising legal, corporate and nonprofit clients on marketing and communications matters, Jim has been involved in numerous high-profile legal disputes in recent years —including the largest lawsuit ever filed against the United States government (the Cobell v. Norton Indian Trust class action), the largest employment class action in history (the Home Depot case), the largest single-family Holocaust restitution claim in history (the Wertheim Department Store case) and the largest child custody and support case in history (Duff v. Perelman). He has also led the communications effort in the Jonathan Pollard spy case and the historic Screen Actors Guild labor dispute against the commercial advertising industry. The Washington Post recently called Jim “an expert on media strategies in high-profile cases,” while Ragan’s Media Relations Reports has called him “one of the nation’s foremost experts in Litigation PR.” During his representation of Patricia Duff in her famed child custody case with billionaire Ronald Perelman, the New York Observer noted that his work helped “even up the odds.” Jim is the author of In The Court Of Public Opinion: Winning Your Case With Public Relations (John Wiley & Sons, 2003),a groundbreaking look at the use of communications and public opinion strategies during lawsuits. One of the top-selling legal hardcovers of 2003, Financial Times called In The Court of Public Opinion “…the perfect handbook for this age...” In The Court of Public Opinion was also positively featured in publications including The Boston Herald, The New York Law Journal, American Lawyer, Law Society Gazette, the Washington Post, The Holmes Report, PR Week and O’Dwyer’s PR Newsletter. Jim holds a B.A. in Political Science and English Literature and Rhetoric from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and studied Law at Fordham University in New York and Stetson University in St. Petersburg, Florida (J.D.). He is admitted to practice in New York and Florida, and is a member of the New York City and New York State Bar Associations, and the Counselors Academy of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). A frequent writer and lecturer on communications issues, Jim’s articles and other writing has appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, The National Law Journal, the New York Law Journal, Law Practice Management and PR Week.
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David Rottman
Principal Court Research Consultant, National Center for State Courts
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David B. Rottman is a principal court research consultant at the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), where his current research concerns judicial selection, public opinion on the courts, and the evolution of court structures. Rottman serves as the NCSC coordinator of the Election Law Program established jointly with the William and Mary School of Law. Rottman received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana and is the author of books on community justice, contemporary Ireland, and social inequality. He previously served on the staff of the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland and taught at the University of Connecticut and the National University of Ireland. The Irish government appointed him to serve on a Committee of Inquiry into the Prison System and a Commission on Social Welfare.
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Robert Tembeckjian
Administrator and Counsel, New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct
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Mr. Tembeckjian is a graduate of Syracuse University, the Fordham University School of Law and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he earned a Masters in Public Administration. He was a Fullbright Scholar to Armenia in 1994, teaching graduate courses and lecturing on constitutional law and ethics at the American University of Armenia and Yerevan State University. Mr. Tembeckjian served on the Advisory Committee to the American Bar Association Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct from 2003-2007. He is on the Board of Directors of the Association of Judicial Disciplinary Counsel and previously served as a Trustee of the Westwood Mutual Funds and the United Nations International School, and on the Board of Directors of the Civic Education Project. Mr. Tembeckjian has served on various ethics and professional responsibility committees of the New York State and New York City Bar Associations, and he has published numerous articles in legal periodicals on judicial ethics and discipline. He is a member of the editorial board of the Justice System Journal.
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Kurt Wimmer
Partner, Covington & Burlington, LLP
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Kurt Wimmer is a partner concentrating in media law and intellectual property at the Washington, D.C. firm Covington & Burlington, LLP. Mr. Wimmer's practice focuses on representing companies in the digital media, television, mobile, publication, and new technology sectors. His work includes intellectual property protection and strategy, content liability and newsgathering advice and litigation, television and digital content licensing transactions, privacy and data protection, international law, and public policy representation of companies and associations before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and international government entities. From 2006 to 2009, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Gannett Co., Inc. and he was Managing Partner of Covington's London office from 2000-2003. Mr. Wimmer's clients have included Microsoft, Yahoo!, The Washington Post Company, Newsweek, National Geographic, and Gannett Co., Inc. He also has advised journalists, associations, and legislators in more than two dozen countries concerning new media laws, protection of journalists, and freedom of information. He is on the boards of the Media Law Resource Center, The Media Institute, the ABA Forum on Communications Law, and the Citizens Media Law Project of the Berkman Center at Harvard University.
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The Undulating Role of Federal Judges in Sentencing
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11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., February 15, 2010
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College of Law Room 104
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A conversation with the Honorable Sidney H. Stein, United States District Court Judge, Southern District of New York, about the changing degree of discretion given to federal trial judges in sentencing criminal defendants and the accompanying institutional tensions between the three branches of government.
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