Conferences and Symposia

Mutual Fund Fraud - The Decisions of Sandra Day O\u27Connor - Meyerowitz Moot Court Competition - Health Care and Race - Technology and Access to Justice - Ward Kershaw and Toxics Data Gaps - ABA Environmental Conference - Alternatives to Incarceration - Constitutional Law Schmooze - Women Changing Corporate Governanc

Sports betting, federalism and the Constitution

[Excerpt] Justice Sandra Day O\u27Connor has described federalism - how the Constitution divides powers between the federal government and the states - as perhaps our oldest question of constitutional law. This past week, the United States Supreme Court returned to this oldest of constitutional questions to strike down a federal law that had prohibited stats from authorizing betting on competitive sporting events

Introduction to Sandra Day O\u27Connor

There are many, many reasons to honor Justice Sandra Day O\u27Connor-and during the course of her brief but rich stay with us here at Columbia Law School, we have touched on only some of those many reasons. There remains this afternoon one more occasion to honor Justice O\u27Connor-an honor that has a very special resonance at this law school. It is the conferral of the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award by the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, a recognition of contributions to international law that is deeply meaningful not only at Columbia Law School, but in international law circles generally