If you are in DC on Friday

The Catholic University Law Review invites you to attend its 2011 Symposium, "A Battle for Supremacy: The Supreme Court's Regulatory Preemption Jurisprudence."  This event will be held on Friday, February 25, 2011, at 1:30 pm at the Washington office of K&L Gates, LLP.  Professor Amanda Cohen Leiter, Associate Professor, The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, will moderate the panel discussion.

The Supreme Court has recently undertaken an examination of the doctrine of regulatory preemption. This year's Catholic University Law Review Symposium will examine these Supreme Court cases and the regulatory preemption doctrine generally. An expert panel will begin with a discussion of these cases. This will be followed by the panelists offering their individual views of the "right" approach in a generic regulatory preemption case and opinions about which of the Justices has the best approach.  Additionally, the panel will examine the change from the Bush to the Obama administrations and the shift from the Rehnquist to Roberts Court, and the effect that each has had on preemption jurisprudence.  Finally, the panelists will conclude by offering their views of how their preferred approach would resolve the cases before the Court.

Panel participants include:

• Dr. Roger Pilon, The Cato Institute (Vice President for Legal Affairs; B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies; Director, Center for Constitutional Studies)

• David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

• David Beam, Partner, K&L Gates, LLP (Washington, D.C.)

• David C. Frederick, Partner, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC (Washington, D.C.); Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

A reception will conclude the event.  Virginia MCLE approval is pending.

Please direct any inquiries about the Symposium to the Catholic University Law Review, attention Melodie Bales and Matthew Saunig, at cuasymposium@gmail.com or (202) 319-5159.  To RSVP, please email cuasymposium@gmail.com.

EMM