A judge should aspire to be perfectly predictable with respect to his or her methodology. That methodology, broadly described, is one of formalism – which manifests itself, most notably, in an originalist approach to constitutional cases and a textualist approach to statutory and regulatory cases. But if applying that methodology properly and honestly, the results of decisions should be at least somewhat unpredictable.
Title:
Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture: Judge Kevin C. Newsom, On Being Predictably Unpredictable
When/Where:
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Eastern Time
CWRU Law Moot Courtroom
Case Western Reserve School of Law
11075 East Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44106
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Speaker:
Judge Kevin C. Newsom is a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He sits in Birmingham, Alabama. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Newsom was the head of the appellate practice group at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and, before that, the Solicitor General of Alabama. As a practicing lawyer, Judge Newsom argued four cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, and nearly 40 more in the U.S. Courts of Appeals and state supreme and appellate courts.
Judge Newsom graduated summa cum laude from Samford University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an articles editor on the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, Judge Newsom clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States.
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
- Ohio: 1 hour of online CLE credit, pending approval
- Other Jurisdictions: You may be able to self-apply to your credit-granting authority.
Free and open to the public.
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