Judicial Independence Conference This Monday

This Monday, October 17, Syracuse University's College of Law, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications are putting on a conference entitled "Bench Press: The Collision of Media, Politics, Public Pressure, and an Independent Judiciary." It will be held at the JW Marriot Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D.C. and is free and open to the public. Visit http://jpm.syr.edu/default.asp for complete information.

For those interested, here is a recent commentary on the topic of judicial independence from the American Judicature Society (click here).