August 8/San Francisco: Are Courts Dying? The Decline of Open and Public Adjudication

During the twentieth century, courts were transformed into venues in which all persons become eligible for “equal justice under law.” But the twenty-first century may become known for a retrenchment – marking courts’ decline and rendering obsolete the constitutional guarantees of “open” and “public” courts for both civil and criminal litigants.
In this program, state supreme court justices and federal judges will discuss why open, public, independent courts remain important and how to respond to a combination of pressures – decreased court funding despite a growing number of litigants without resources, the cost of lawyers, contracts mandating outsourcing adjudication to arbitration, and other efforts to privatize decision making.
Title:
Are Courts Dying? The Decline of Open and Public Adjudication
When/Where: 
Thursday, August 8, 2013
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Moscone Center West, Second Floor, Rooms 2014/2016
800 Howard Street (Corner of Fourth and Howard Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Speakers:

• Hon. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California
• Hon. W. Royal Furgeson, Jr. (Ret.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
• Hon. Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
• Hon. Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge, State of New York, New York Court of Appeals
• Hon. Norma L. Shapiro, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Hon. Jeffrey S. Sutton, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Moderator: Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School

By:

• Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements, Judge Norma L. Shapiro, Chair
• Standing Committee on Judicial Independence, Peter Bennett, Chair

Cost:
Attendees are not required to register for the ABA Annual Meeting or pay any fee to attend this program. However, only attendees who are registered for the ABA Annual Meeting are eligible to receive CLE credit.
Credit:
1.5
More:
http://www.alrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013-Showcase-Program-Flyer.pdf