Conference on Federal Diversity Jurisdiction
Friday, March 19, 2021
Panelists
- Brooke Coleman, Seattle University School of Law
- Scott Dodson, UC-Hastings College of the Law
- Richard D. Freer, Emory University School of Law
- Steven S. Gensler, University of Oklahoma College of Law
- William H. J. Hubbard, University of Chicago Law School
- Daniel Klerman, University of Southern California - Gould School of Law
- Anita S. Krishnakumar, St. John’s University School of Law
- Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, New York University School of Law
- Roger Michalski, University of Oklahoma College of Law
- Jonathan R. Nash, Emory University School of Law
- Martin H. Redish, Northwestern University – Pritzker School of Law
- Stephen E. Sachs, Duke University School of Law
- Joanna Shepherd, Emory University School of Law
- Lawrence B. Solum, University of Virginia School of Law
- Ann Woolhandler, University of Virginia School of Law
- Patrick Woolley, University of Texas School of Law
Agenda (all times Eastern time zone)
11:20-11:30 - Welcome
11:30-1:00 - Panel I: The Politics and Effects of Diversity Jurisdiction
Richard Freer, The Political Reality of Diversity Jurisdiction
Commentator: Brooke Coleman
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, The Hollowed Out Common Law (co-authored with Samuel Issacharoff)
Commentator: Joanna Shepherd
1:00-1:15 - Break
1:15-2:45 - Panel II: Changing the Scope of the Diversity Grant
Steven Gensler & Roger Michalski, The Million Dollar Diversity Docket
Commentator: William Hubbard
Daniel Klerman & Jonathan Nash, Aligning Diversity Jurisdiction With Its Bias Rationale
Commentator: Scott Dodson
2:45-3:00 - Break
3:00-3:45 Panel III: Interpreting the Diversity Statute
Martin H. Redish, Federal Jurisdiction as Statutory Interpretation: A Majordomo Purposivist Perspective (co-authored with Andrew Rodheim & Nicholas Roosevelt)
Commentator: Anita Krishnakumar
3:45-4:00 - Break
4:00-5:30 - Panel IV: Originalist and Historical Perspectives on Diversity
Lawrence Solum, Originalism and Diversity of Citizenship
Commentator: Stephen E. Sachs
Patrick Woolley, Diversity Jurisdiction and the Common-Law Scope of the “Civil Action”
Commentator: Ann Woolhandler
5:30-5:40 - Closing Remarks
Logistics
Each paper will have 45 total minutes of time allotted. The author(s) of each paper should present the paper in no more than 15 minutes. Each paper will have an assigned commentator; that commentator should offer comments on the paper for no more than 8 minutes. The balance of the time will be for general discussion/question-and-answer.