The 20th annual Supreme Court Preview, sponsored by the IBRL, was held September 14–15, 2007, at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law. Speakers included
Erwin Chemerinsky,
Walter E. Dellinger III,
John Yoo,
Michael W. McConnell,
Linda Greenhouse,
Dahlia Lithwick,
Stuart Taylor Jr.,
Ted Cruz and William & Mary's own
William Van Alstyne. A September 15 panel on the
Roberts Court (with Chemerinsky, Yoo and Greenhouse) was aired on
C-SPAN. The 21st annual Supreme Court Preview was held September 26–27, 2008, again at William & Mary's Law School. Panelists included appellate judges from the Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Circuits; journalists from
CNN,
The New York Times,
USA Today and
The Los Angeles Times; and Supreme Court advocates and U.S. legal scholars. The 22nd annual Supreme Court Preview was held October 2–3, 2009, at
William & Mary School of Law.
Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court (retired) and Chancellor of
The College of William & Mary, was the distinguished guest. Panelists included
Beth Brinkman (Deputy Assistant Attorney General),
Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean,
University of California, Irvine School of Law), two former Solicitors General of the United States, and journalists and law professors from all over the nation. The 23rd annual Supreme Court Preview was held September 24–25, 2010. In addition to reviewing the Supreme Court's forthcoming docket, panels were held on
Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the same-sex marriage case then on appeal before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and on the constitutionality of the recently passed
health insurance mandate. Panelists included four former Solicitors General,
Jeffrey Sutton (
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit), law professors from
Yale Law School and
Stanford Law School, and Supreme Court correspondents for five national publications. The 25th annual Supreme Court Preview was held September 28–29, 2012. The moot court case was Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, argued by Erwin Chemerinsky (University of California at Irvine) and
Amy Wax (University of Pennsylvania Law School). Other panel topics included Gay Rights, Business Law, and Election Law. Participants included
Debo P. Adegbile (NAACP), Joan Biskupic (Reuters), Michael Carvin (Jones Day), Walter Dellinger (O'Melveny & Myers), Linda Greenhouse (Yale Law School), Neal Katyal (Hogan Lovells), and Adam Liptak (New York Times). == Leadership ==