A Celebration of Professor David Driesen’s “The Specter of Dictatorship”
Friday, November 12, 2021
Melanie Gray Ceremonial Courtroom | Dineen Hall, Syracuse University College of Law
Presented by Syracuse Law Review
Co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society.
7:45 – 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast in the Levy Atrium
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. | Introductions
Welcome, Dean Craig M. Boise
Introduction to The Specter of Dictatorship, Professor David M. Driesen
9 – 10:30 a.m. | Panel One: The Unitary Executive, Autocracy, and American History
Moderator: Professor Kristen Barnes, Syracuse Law
- Jed Shugerman, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
- Jennifer Mascott, Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Executive Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
- Noah Rosenblum, Assistant Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
10:45 a.m. – noon | Panel Two: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Executive Power
Moderator: Professor Mark P. Nevitt, Syracuse Law
- Julian Mortenson, James G. Phillipp Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
- Tom Keck, Professor of Political Science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
- Heidi Kitrosser, Robins Kaplan Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
noon – 1 p.m. | Lunch
1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Panel Three: Reforming Presidentialism: Comparative and Domestic Perspectives
Moderator: Professor C. Cora True-Frost, Syracuse Law
- Andrea Katz, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law in St. Louis
- Cem Tecimer, Harvard Law School
- Robert Tsai, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. | Concluding Remarks from Professor Driesen
