Fair and Independent Courts: Scenes from the ALI-Georgetown Conference

On September 28 and 29, The American Law Institute and Georgetown University Law Center cosponsored an invitational conference on the state of the judiciary. The photos below are courtesy of Georgetown University Law Center unless otherwise indicated.

Pictured at the conference, from left: ALI Director Lance Liebman, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, ALI 1st Vice President Roberta Cooper Ramo, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (photo by Steve Petteway, from the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

Members of the panel on Public Understanding, Media, and Education, from left: Linda Greenhouse, New York Times; Fred Graham, Court TV; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center; Moderator Gloria Borger, CBS News.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen Breyer, and David Souter share a light moment.

Members of the panel on Judicial Selection and Removal, from left: Vicki C. Jackson, Georgetown Univ. Law Center; Ronald M. George, Chief Justice of California; Ruth V. McGregor, Chief Justice of Arizona; Moderator Tony Mauro, Legal Times

Members of the panel on Judicial Independence: Justifications and Modern Criticisms, from left: C. Boyden Gray, U.S. Ambassador to the EU; Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center; Moderator Pierre Thomas, ABC News

John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, was the dinner speaker.