Section Highlights

Submitted by Louis Virelli Tuesday afternoon at SEALS featured one of the conference’s longest running and most popular panels, the Supreme Court and Legislative Update (administrative, corporate, and IP edition). The panel was moderated by Professor Constance Wagner from Saint Louis University School of Law and featured five presenters covering a whopping sixteen cases from the Court’s October 2020 term, plus two legislative initiatives in IP. Bill Funk, the Lewis & Clark Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, started by discussing six administrative law cases, ranging from the constitutionality of administrative patent judge appointments (Arthrex) and removal of single-member agency heads (Collins) to questions of issue exhaustion in administrative proceedings (Carr) and statutory remedies available to the FTC (AMG Capital). He

Submitted by Gary Simson This discussion group was in the first meeting time on the first day of the SEALS Conference, and it’s hard to imagine a discussion group that could have gotten the conference off to a livelier start. The nine members of the group debated a wide variety of issues, such as whether social media platforms are best analogized to traditional publishers like the New York Times or to utilities like cable companies, whether social media platforms’ Section 230 immunity should be preserved, modified, or eliminated, and whether other nations’ approaches to government regulation of speech do a better job than the prevailing First Amendment case law of addressing the dangers that social media may pose to democratic

Submitted by Corinna Lain Three-hour long discussion sessions at SEALS are always a bit tricky—it’s fun to get with old friends and make new ones, and fun to brainstorm ideas and geek out on the law, but that’s a loooong time to talk about stuff, even stuff that’s interesting. Sometime after the first hour of these sessions, I usually end up excusing myself to grab coffee, use the bathroom, or just pretend like I’m doing one of those things while I’m really checking my phone. Not this time. Never has time in a discussion session flown by so quickly. Huh. Who knew. I thought that the session might go slower (not a function of the people, but of our inevitable

Submitted by Colin Marks Discussion Group: “The Ric Flair Rule: Market Economics, Political Power, and Critical Awareness in a Global World.” This discussion group took wrestler Ric Flair’s saying “To be the man, you have to beat the man” and applied it to a number of modern issues. The discussants brought expertise from tax, bankruptcy, property, contracts, antitrust, intellectual property, advocacy theory and critical race theory and combined them into a sweeping and highly interactive discussion on the role power plays. Issues such as the intransigence of police reform, the persistence of legal theories, and how institutions maintain and increase their power were all explored. Along the way, the discussants seemed to converge upon the idea that though established theories

Friends and colleagues, We write to invite you to submit abstracts for presentations at a day-long conference on Mindfulness in Law Schools to be held during next summer’s SEALS Meeting. The 2020 SEALS Meeting will be held at the Marriott Fort Lauderdale, from Thursday, July 30 until Wednesday, August 5; the Mindfulness in Law Schools Conference is scheduled for Sunday, August 2. The conference will include a full day of programs and panels about mindfulness and law, mixed with opportunities to experience and participate in mindfulness activities. Individual and panel programs will run approximately 75 minutes. We welcome and encourage a variety of presentation formats and topics. Interested participants may wish to propose a panel, discussion, or presentation of some