Extract from Sam Bock’s article “The 11th Annual Judicial Panel: Politics, Free Speech, and the Judiciary”
At Relativity Fest 2024, David Horrigan, discovery counsel and legal education director at Relativity, opened the eleventh annual Judicial Panel with an observation.
Looking back to early planning for the first Judicial Panel in 2013, and citing case law on the political question doctrine, David recalled that initial decision to “Keep politics out of it.” Then, David addressed the seeming contradiction with this year’s topic: “A lot has changed since 2013.”
The tenor of this year’s panel certainly rang a bit differently than past sessions, as our distinguished guest jurists spoke directly about the political repercussions of their roles; a few of the most intense topics of pop culture today; and how free speech and respect for the judiciary should, but often don’t, go hand in hand.
This year’s panel featured representation from the United States and the United Kindgom
