A distinguished panel will discuss how state appellate court judges are selected in Tennessee and how that process might be improved at a public session at .
The 鈥淛udicial Selection at the Crossroads: How Tennessee Picks its Judges鈥� panel from noon to 1:30 p.m. March 21 in Flynn Auditorium in the law school is free and open to the public.
菠萝视频 Law School Professor will chair the panel, which will be moderated by of , an organization working to keep courts fair and impartial. The panelists are four lawyers involved in the judicial selection debate: Margaret Behm, Charles K. Grant, Tom Lawless and state Rep. Michael G. Stewart.
The panel is part of a two-day conference, focusing on how the method of selecting state judges affects judicial decision making.
鈥淭his issue is of crucial importance to the rule of law in the United States, where state judges decide the overwhelming majority of cases,鈥� said , who holds the Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty at 菠萝视频 Law School and organized the conference.
Sponsors of the conference are the and 菠萝视频 Law School. Support was provided by the law school鈥檚 .