As the Supreme Court opens its October Term, the AEI Legal Center will host its annual review and preview of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2007 and 2008 Terms. As in prior years, a panel of distinguished experts and practitioners will discuss the key business cases, which constitute an ever-growing share of the Court’s civil docket. Recent regulatory and financial crises bring increased urgency to the examination of the justices’ future course. Will Congress and the Executive finally create a stable regulatory framework, or will there be uncontrolled litigation and regulation over past misconduct, real and imagined? What role is the Court likely to play?

Joining AEI’s John G. Searle Scholar, Michael S. Greve, in the discussion will be appellate litigator and former Supreme Court clerk Mark Stancil; Andrew J. Pincus, the former general counsel in the Clinton administration’s Commerce Department and currently a partner at Mayer Brown; and Catherine Sharkey of New York University Law School, and expert in punitive damages, federal preemption, and class actions. Ashley Parrish, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, will moderate.