Symposium Commemorates 40 Years of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Marking the 40th anniversary of the present design of
California's Federal judicial districts, Southwestern Law School, under
the auspices of the Southwestern University Law Review, will hold a symposium titled "The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966-2006: Text and Context" on October 27, 2006.
The daylong event will examine the history of the Central District,
major changes and some of the key cases decided by its judges. Academic
co-sponsors include the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society and
the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
"The Federal Courts are major actors in the history of Los Angeles," Southwestern's Dean Bryant Garth said. "The Central District has had a huge impact on the region, and this symposium will assess the way it has affected everything from schools to roads."
Speakers include 13 sitting Federal District Court and Court of Appeals judges: U.S. Central District Chief Judge Alicemarie Stotler, as well as
Judges Robert Takasugi, Florence-Marie Cooper, Ronald Lew, Manuel Real,
Stephen Wilson, and Consuelo Marshall; Ninth Circuit Judges Arthur
Alarcon, Richard Paez, Stephen Reinhardt, A. Wallace Tashima, and Harry
Pregerson; director of the federal judicial center, Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein;
as well as Federal Court scholars from Southwestern Law School, Duke,
Yale, Stanford, University of Southern California, Cal State Fullerton,
and the University of California, Los Angeles, and prominent historians.
Morning panels will focus on the early history of the
Court, changes in U.S. litigation practice since the 1960's, and how
changes in Southern California and American society generally have
influenced the work of the District Court. Afternoon panels will focus
on the desegregation of Pasadena schools, the Century (105) Freeway
litigation and settlement, the interaction of the entertainment and
technology industries, and law enforcement. Corporate sponsors of the
symposium include Arnold & Porter LLP; Jones Day; Kirkland &
Ellis LLP; O'Melveny & Myers LLP; Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones
& Weintraub LLP; Sidley Austin LLP; and Burke, Williams &
Sorensen, LLP. Bar Association sponsors include the Los Angeles and
Orange County Chapters of the Federal Bar Association, and the Los
Angeles County Bar Association's (LACBA) Commercial Law and Bankruptcy
Section, Immigration Law Section, and Intellectual Property and
Entertainment Law Section.
Articles written in coordination with the symposium will be published in the Southwestern University Law Review;
copies of the issue will be sent to participants and will also be
available for purchase. For further information about the Law Review,
contact the Student Affairs Office.
The symposium will take place from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in
the historic Bullocks Wilshire Building on Southwestern's campus, 3050
Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles. The cost, including lunch, is $75
for non-Southwestern Alumni seeking 6.25 hours of CLE credit; $50 for
Southwestern Alumni seeking 6.25 hours of CLE credit; and $40 for those
not seeking CLE credit. Information on registering for the event can be
found in the Law Review section. For a map and directions, click here.
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