NJ Governors and the State Supreme Court

Held at the New Jersey Law Center on May 8, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Center on the American Governor, the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Institute for Continuing Legal Education

Video Archive

Part 1
Welcome and Introduction
  Lynn Fontaine Newsome, President New Jersey State Bar Association
  Ruth B. Mandel, Director, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University
Remarks
  Governor Jon S. Corzine
New Jersey Governors and the State Supreme Court: The Evolving Relationship
  Robert Williams, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School-Camden

Part 2
Governors and the Court: The Formal and Informal Relationship

• Moderator: Robert Williams, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School-Camden
• Panel: Governors Brendan T. Byrne and James J. Florio, Chief Justices James R. Zazzali and Deborah T. Poritz; and Justices Robert L. Clifford, Daniel J. O’Hern; Gary S. Stein; and Peter J. Verniero

Part 3
Shaping the Relationship since 1947: Governors and the Court

• Moderator: John Wefing, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University Law School
• Panelists: Governor Brendan T. Byrne; Governor James J. Florio, Justice Robert L. Clifford; Judge Burrell Ives; Humphreys, Williams, Caliri, Miller & Otley; Robert J. Del Tufo, Skadden Arps; Slate, Meagher & Flom; Joel Sterns, Sterns & Weinroth; Judge Arthur J. Simpson, Winne, Banta, Hetherington, Basralian & Kahn

Part 4
Governors and the Court as Policy Makers: Perfect Together?

• Moderator: Paul, Tractenberg, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor & Alfred C. Clapp Distinguished Public Service Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School-Newark
• Panelists: Justice Stewart Pollock; Judge John Gibbons, Gibbons PC; former Senator William Gormley, DLA Piper; William Greenberg, McCarter & English; John L. Kraft, Lomurro Davison, Eastman, and Muñoz, P.A.