IJPM is proud to sponsor a new graduate student organization, Syracuse Law and Civic Engagement (SLACE). The students in SLACE are drawn from the College of Law, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and the Newhouse School of Public Communication. The organization’s goal is to create a new forum of where scholarship and commentary on law, policy, and the media intersect. See what SLACE is up to here.
Author Archives: Keith Bybee
IJPM’s Annual Constitution Day Lecture
“New York’s Constitution: Sometimes It’s Just a Suggestion”
Susan Arbetter
State Capitol Correspondent and News & Public Affairs Director, WCNY
Date: Tuesday, September, 17
Time: 4:00pm
Place: Alumni Heritage Lounge, College of Law
A reception will follow the lecture at 5:00pm.
Susan Arbetter is an award-winning broadcast journalist. She was creator and host of the radio program Roundtable Show and of the television program New York Now. Currently, Arbetter hosts and produces The Capitol Pressroom, a daily WNCY radio show broadcast from the State Capitol in Albany. The Capitol Pressroom features interviews with newsmakers as well as reports by journalists from The New York Times, Newsday, The Albany Times Union, Gannett News Service, and the Associated Press. Arbetter also hosts The Capitol Report, a television news show covering the New York State legislature and statewide government. The Capitol Pressroom and The Capitol Report are carried by stations throughout New York.
Law & Media Workshop Successfully Completed
How are legal issues and the courts depicted in the media? How has the advent of new media altered legal coverage? And what impact does the structure and content of legal reporting have on public perceptions and the conduct of legal affairs? These questions were addressed over the course of two days at “Law in the Age of Media Logic,” a workshop co-organized by IJPM, held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISJ) in Oñati, Spain, and attended by 24 scholars from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The international group of scholars in attendance represented a number of academic fields, including communications, the legal academy, political science, and sociology. This great diversity of workshop participants produced a wide-ranging assessment of the media and its effects. Participants analyzed judiciaries at all levels (from trial courts to supreme courts), and considered a variety of court-related actions from judicial nominations and high-profile judicial decisions to the increasing judicial efforts to manage public relations. Participants also discussed criminal and civil litigation as well as the broad differences between common law and civil law systems. Traditional newspaper and television reporting received substantial attention, as did web-based news coverage and social media. Workshop participants also repeatedly engaged the issue of public trust, debating the alternate ways in which the media have sustained and eroded public faith in legal authority. The workshop revealed that there is much to be gained from interdisciplinary analysis of law and media. We plan to bring our discussion to a broader audience by publishing workshop papers in the IISJ’s peer-reviewed journal. We also hope to continue the fruitful lines of inquiry advanced in the workshop by organizing a collaborative research network on law and the media.
The workshop program can be found here.
Workshop Participants at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain.
Onati Workshop Preliminary Program
The preliminary program for the invitation-only workshop “Law in the Age of Media Logic” is now available (see below). The workshop is co-organized by IJPM and will be held on June 27-28, 2013 at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain.
IJPM Director Delivers Hands Lecture
The Second Circuit Judicial Council Committee on
History, Commemorative Events and Civic Education
announces the Hands Lecture:
“The Rule of Law is Dead! Long Live the Rule of Law!
Conflicting Public Perceptions of the Courts”
Keith J. Bybee
College of Law and Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor
Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science
Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM); Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 4:00 p.m.
Drumlins
800 Nottingham Road
Syracuse, NY 13244
More information on the event, including the background of the Hands Lecture, can be found here.
From l to r: Judge Richard Wesley, Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs, Judge Rosemary Pooler, Dean Hannah Arterian, and Professor Keith Bybee
Symposium Published on “All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not”
The 2013 winter issue of Law & Social Inquiry features a symposium on Keith Bybee’s latest book, All Judges Are Political–Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law (Stanford University Press). The symposium includes three critical essays by scholars and a response by Bybee.
Launch of Journal of Law and Courts
The new peer-reviewed Journal of Law and Courts (JLC) has published its first issue. JLC aims to be the premier journal for members of the law and courts intellectual community in terms of the quality and scope of articles, and in terms of the size and diversity of audience. Sponsored by the American Political Science Association but published for all scholars interested in legal institutions, actors, processes, and policy, JLC is interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in substance. IJPM Director Keith Bybee serves as part of the JLC editorial team.
1L Convocation Series
Working with College of Law Dean Hannah Arterian, IJPM Director Keith Bybee organizes the 1L Convocation Lecture Series. Five lectures are held each year and the entire 1L class attends each one. The final two lectures of the 2012-13 year are: “Law, Lawyering and Citizenship: Developing Excellent Lawyers and Even Better Citizens” by Pauline Schneider of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (to be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at 12:00 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel) and “The Work of the Judiciary: Perspectives on Being a State and Federal Judge” by Judge James E. Graves, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (to be held on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel).
Tanner Lectures on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsiblity
IJPM Director Keith Bybee is part of the three-person faculty team that organizes the Tanner Lectures. Run through the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and endowed by Dr. W. Lynn Tanner, the lectures seek to expand horizons and spark new conversations about the problems and opportunities we collectively face as citizens of nations and of the world. The lectures are delivered annually and the most recent lecture was given in October 2012 by Professor Michael Sandel of Harvard University.