LAW AND ORDER IN 2015: A CASE SET IN THE FUTURE

Lawyers Miguel Estrada and David Rudovsky argued a futuristic case before an equally-distinguished mock Supreme Court. The event, Law and Order in 2015: A Case Set in the Future examined whether the Constitution authored in 1787 before typewriters, antibiotics and even the locomotive could offer protections from the potential abuses of DNA data banks, brain scans and biometric cameras. If so, what could be said to constitute such an abuse, since the Constitution limits only “unreasonable” intrusions on the private sphere?

The Chief Judge of the mock Supreme Court was Judith Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York. Other judges included Arlin Adams, former U.S. Court of Appeals judge; Christopher Lewis, BlankRome partner; Alfred Putnam, Drinker Biddle & Reath chairman; Marjorie O. Rendell U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge; Kermit Roosevelt, University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor and Dolores Sloviter, U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge.