Federal Law 2020: Constitutional and Statutory Developments: 4 General Hours

Courses Included

• Federal Law 2020: Voting in 2020
  
  

  Join the Federal Law Section for a .5-General Hour CLE as Professor Steven Mulroy provides updates on voting policies and the impact on the upcoming elections. 

  Election 2020: Legal and Policy Issues

  This session will explore legal developments and policy issues related to the upcoming election, including the Electoral College, mail voting, and the prospect of election challenges.

   

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  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:0.50

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Steven Mulroy, Shelby County District Attorney General's Office, Memphis
• Federal Law 2020: United States Supreme Court and Sixth Court Case Update
  
  

  Join the Federal Law Section for a 1-General hour CLE covering Supreme Court case updates. 

  Supreme Court Update

  This presentation will review significant decisions from the recently completed U.S. Supreme Court term, as well as preview significant cases scheduled for argument in the upcoming term. In addition, the presentation will discuss noteworthy cases that have recently been decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

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  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Cecil VanDevender, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville
• Federal Law 2020: Canons of Constitutional and Contract Interpretation
  
  

  An overview of the rules of construction that Tennessee court apply to statutes and contracts, including interpretive cannons in areas like defined and undefined terms, ambiguity, context, and agency deference.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Eric Osborne, Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, Nashville
  • Christopher Sabis, Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, PLC, Nashville
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• Federal Law 2020: Corpus Linguistics
  
  

  Debates about the original meaning of the Establishment Clause are gaining increased attention in light of the Supreme Court’s recent cert grant in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association, a case about government displays of religious symbols. Scholars have long relied on a host of different methodologies to advance various theories about what the Establishment Clause means. But these methods, often relying on isolated historical examples or unrepresentative samples of language, provide limited insights about how language was understood by the greater population during the founding era. 

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:0.75

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Annika Boone, Harvard Law School,
    Annika Boone has been a clerk for Judge Ryan Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Thomas Lee of the Utah Supreme Court.  During law school, she worked at...