Category Archives: News
Confidential Sources and Governement Surveillance
Media Coverage & Criminal Cases
How the Media Covers High Profile Criminal Cases: Do the Facts Really Matter?
William J. Fitzpatrick
District Attorney, Onondaga County
Wednesday, February 18
4:00 p.m.
Syracuse University College of Law
Dineen Hall, Sonkin Seminar Room 342
Mr. Fitzpatrick has served as Onondaga County District Attorney since 1992, and has been a member of the Onondaga County District Attorney’s office for more than 30 years, with involvement in a variety of cases that have covered every facet of the law. Mr. Fitzpatrick’s work has gained national notoriety, including the 1992 conviction of Waneta Hoyt, which led to increasing awareness in the medical and legal communities about infant homicide and SIDS prevention, and recently, the conviction of “Black Widow” killer Stacy Castor.
Mr. Fitzpatrick’s lecture is sponsored by the interdisciplinary Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media, and the Tully Center for Free Speech.
The Right of Publicity
“Squaring the Right of Publicity with the First Amendment”
Paul M. Smith, Partner, Jenner & Block
Wednesday, January 28, 4:00 p.m.
Syracuse University College of Law
Dineen Hall, Sonkin Seminar Room 342
Mr. Smith has had an active Supreme Court practice for three decades, including oral arguments in 15 cases involving matters ranging from free speech and civil rights to civil procedure. Among his important victories have been Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark gay rights case, and Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass’n, establishing the First Amendment rights of those who produce and sell video games. Mr. Smith is Chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Practice and Co-Chair of the Media and First Amendment, and Election Law and Redistricting Practices at Jenner & Block.
Mr. Smith’s lecture is sponsored by the interdisciplinary Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media; the Tully Center for Free Speech; and the Kissel Fund for Civil Liberties.
For a poster of the Smith lecture, click HERE.
2015 Law, Politics, and the Media Lecture Series
For a roster of Spring 2015 lectures, click HERE.
Law, Politics, and Media Class Begins
For the seventh year, IJPM is sponsoring the interdisciplinary course Law, Politics, and the Media. Course information and syllabus can be found here.
Law, Politics, and the Media Informational Meeting
Law, Politics, and the Media . . . and pizza!
The American judicial system today operates in a complex environment of legal principle, political pressure and media coverage. LAW 839/PSC 700/NEW 500: Law, Politics and the Media introduces students to the court system and its environment as a single, integrated subject of study. The course is sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media and co-taught by faculty drawn from law, journalism and political science. The course also features dynamic lectures by prominent practitioners from the bench, the bar, media, and the world of policymaking.
Interested? Join us on Thursday, October 30, at 12:00pm in Dineen Hall’s MacNaughton Collaboratory for an informational meeting. Law, Politics and the Media faculty will be there to answer any questions you may have about the course, and pizza will be served.
Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
“Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice”
Joan Biskupic, Legal Affairs Editor, Reuters
Date: Wednesday, 9/24
Time: 12:00pm-‐12:50pm
Place: Gray Ceremonial Courtroom – Room 020, Dineen Hall, Syracuse University College of Law
It was little surprise in 2009 that President Barack Obama nominated a Hispanic judge to replace retiring justice David Souter. The fact that there had never been a nominee to the nation’s highest court from the nation’s fastest growing minority had been long apparent. So the time was ripe—but why was it Sonia Sotomayor? In Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice, veteran journalist Joan Biskupic answers that question. This is the story of how two forces providentially merged—the large ambitions of a talented Puerto Rican girl raised in the projects of the Bronx, and the increasing political presence of Hispanics, from California to Texas, from Florida to the Northeast—for a historic appointment. And this is not just a tale about breaking barriers as a Puerto Rican. It’s about breaking barriers as a justice.
Conversation from the Bench
A panel discussion with four Circuit Court Judges about the state of judicial independence and judicial legitimacy in the current age of political polarization and partisan gridlock.
Participants:
Hon. Carolyn Dineen King
Hon. Theodore A. McKee
Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler
Hon. Thomas M. Reavley
Moderator:
Professor Keith J. Bybee,
Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72
Judiciary Studies Professor and Director, IJPM
When: September 12, 11:00am-12:00pm
Where: Melanie Gray Ceremonial Courtroom, Syracuse University College of Law
This event is part of the opening celebration of Dineen Hall.
Elements of Law, Fall 2014
Building on its record of interdisciplinary legal education, IJPM has designed a new course for undergraduates. For details, visit the Elements of Law course page.