District of Texas); and Fellows John Day (ACTL
Secretary-Designate), Richard Deane, Jr. (ACTL
Secretary), Andrea La’Verne Edney, Adam Peck,
Ashok Ramani, and Douglas Young (ACTL
Past-President). The United Kingdom was
represented by The Right Hon. Lord Hodge
(Deputy President of the Supreme Court), The
Right Hon. Lord Briggs of Westbourne (Justice
of the Supreme Court), The Right Hon. Lady
Arden of Heswall DBE (Justice of the Supreme
Court, ret.), The Rt Hon. The Lord Mance PC
(Justice of the Supreme Court, ret), The Right
Hon. Dame Siobhan Keegan (Chief Justice of
Northern Ireland), The Right Hon. Sir Geoffrey
Vos MR (Master of the Rolls), The Hon. Dame
Karen Steyn DBE (Judge of the High Court of
England and Wales), The Hon. Dame Justine
Thornton DBE (Judge of the High Court of
England and Wales), and Helen Davies QC.
Invited former Marshall Scholars who attended
included Cinnamon Pinon Carlarne, Sheryll
Cashin, Samuel Rascoff, Jeffrey Rosen, Andrew
Shapiro, and Kannon Shanmugam. Legal scholar
Jonathan Zittrain was also an invited expert and
presenter. The Right Hon. Richard Wagner PC
(Chief Justice of Canada) attended as a special
guest along with Scott Grinsell (President
of the Association of Marshall Scholars),
Vicky Fox (Chief Executive for the Supreme
Court of the United Kingdom), Michael
O’Donnell (ACTL President) and Rodney
Acker (ACTL Immediate Past President.)
The Forum proceeded in two parts. On Wednesday, May 4, the
delegates met at the Supreme Court for a full day of discussion,
followed by a tour of the United States Capitol, a viewing of curated
items from the Law Library collection at the Library of Congress, and
a reception and dinner at the Library of Congress. The dinner featured
remarks by Aslihan Bulut, Law Librarian of Congress. On Thursday,
May 5, the formal delegates and additional invited guests and spouses
met at the Supreme Court for further discussions and questions
from the floor. The commentary each day – lively and informative –
followed “Chatham House Rules,” meaning that comments made
during the meetings could not be attributed to any particular speaker.
In preparing for the Forum, the delegates authored and distributed
substantive “executive summaries” on the topics to be discussed,
typically at least two for each topic – one addressing issues from the UK
perspective and one addressing issues from the US perspective.
The “Rule of Law” was a key underlying theme; and it was
interesting to observe how, over time, legal commentators and
scholars from both the United States and the United Kingdom
have attempted to identify the key elements of the “Rule.” For
example, United States legal philosopher and professor Lon Fuller,
who helped frame the modern philosophical conflict between
“legal positivism” and “natural law theory,” famously identified a
set fundamental elements in his 1964 book The Morality of Law.
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