Videos

The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States held its first public hearing on the debate over expanding the Court and other potential changes. This portion includes …

Harvard Law School hosted a discussion with a group of judges and legal experts on a new book, Tough Cases. It features the viewpoints of several judges and how they grappled with hard cases…

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy presided over a mock trial of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Defense attorney Abbe Lowell represented the Prince of Denmark in his insanity plea and U.S. At…

Two prosecutors and a former judge talked about the balance of power between prosecutors and judges in sentencing criminals, and explored the potential need for sentencing guideline reforms.…

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was the keynote speaker at an Alliance for Justice forum on judicial nominations and diversity. She urged President Obama to nominate people to the federal ju…

A panel discussion was held to commemorate the July 2, 2008, centennial of the birth of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Ju…

As part of a conference titled, “The American Prosecutor: Power, Discretion and Accountability,” the panelists talked about prosecutorial misconduct. In recent years, studies by investigativ…

Witnesses testified for and against proposed legislation, the 2007 Sunshine in the Courtroom Act, which would allow the photographing, broadcasting and televising of federal court proceeding…

Hofstra University hosted a three-day conference on judicial ethics. A panel on judicial speech and the First Amendment featured speeches by Judges Jackson and Spargo who recently were invol…

Witnesses testified about proposed legislation that would allow the photographing, electronic recording, broadcasting and televising of federal court proceedings.