The Conglomerate is holding its inaugural masters forum, coinciding
with tomorrow’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Jones v. Harris. The Forum will feature commentary from
several guest posters, including yours truly. The always ahead-of-schedule Larry
Ribstein has already gotten the ball rolling.
The SCOUS
Wiki has everything you need to get up to speed on the case, and Usha
Rodrigues has a short and sweet post on Jones v. Harris and the
Easterbrook-Posner disagreement. Morningstar
has also posted a summary/preview
of the case, including this video
of a discussion featuring John Coates of Harvard Law School (who supports
the respondents as an amicus) and William Birdthistle of Chicago-Kent Law
School (who supports the petitioners).
Both Coates and Birthistle do an excellent job, I think, and the video
is worth watching in its entirety.
I’ll cross-post my entry here, but of course you should head
over
to the Glom periodically over the next few days to read all the activity,
including anticipated live-blogging of the oral argument by Birdthistle.