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.
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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.
Sixth Annual Law Politics and the Media Lecture Series
January 23, 2013 – April 17, 2013
COLLEGE OF LAW, ROOM 204
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 communication assess the media.
The goal of this lecture series is to engage in a dialogue about the court system and its environment as a single, integrated subject of study. The lectures complement the Law, Politics, and the Media course and involve sitting judges, practicing lawyers, and working journalists.
All lectures are held on Wednesdays, from 4-5:15pm in Room 204 at the College of Law.
January 23
“Criminal Justice Journalism and the Politics of Fear: Finding the Balance Between Education and Entertainment in True-Crime Narratives”
Mark Obbie, Author and Journalist, former Executive Editor of The American Lawyer, and former Magazine Journalism faculty member at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
January 30
“Public Health: Improving Health Through Politics, Policy, and People”
Dr. Cynthia Morrow, Commissioner of Health for Onondaga County in Syracuse, NY
February 6
“The Extinction of the American Moderate”
Michael Arcuri, former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 24th District, Of Counsel, Hancock Estabrook LLP
February 27
“Lawyers, Judges, Ethics Rules and the Limits on Speech”
Thomas Spahn, Partner, McGuire Woods
March 27
“Media and the Judicial Confirmation Process”
Peter Canellos, Boston Globe, Editorial Page Editor
April 3
“Media Coverage and the Politics of Judicial Selection: A Conversation with Judge James E. Graves, Jr.”
Judge James E. Graves, Jr., United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit and Keith J. Bybee, Paul E. and the Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor, Syracuse University College of Law
April 10
“The Terror Courts”
Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court Reporter
April 17
“Civics, the Internet, and the Art of Self-Government”
Gene Koo, iCivics Executive Director