"The American Civil Jury: Illusion and Reality" - Fourth Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy

A group of America's most knowledgeable social scientists, legal academics, and lawyers will gather at DePaul University in Chicago to examine the American civil jury. Topics to be considered will include popular views of the jury, judicial assessment of jury performance, jury awards of damages in civil actions, and jury views about corporate defendants, minority litigants, and class action proceedings. A distinguished panel of lawyers will discuss and demonstrate a variety of advocacy techniques designed to respond to the realities of the contemporary jury.

CONFERENCE FACULTY

Albert Alschuler
Professor, University of Chicago Law School

Michael W. Coffield
Michael W. Coffield & Associates

Paul Butler
Professor, George Washington University Law School

Robert Clifford
Clifford Law Offices and Sponsor of the Clifford Chair of Tort Law and Social Policy

Carol Clover
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Honorable Michael Dann
Superior Court Judge, Maricopa County, Arizona

Shari Diamond
Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago, and American Bar Foundation

Lawrence Friedman
Professor, Stanford Law School

Valerie Hans
Professor, University of Delaware

Deborah Hensler
Director, Rand Institute for Civil Justice

Nancy King
Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law

Stephan Landsman
Professor, DePaul University College of Law and Robert A. Clifford Professor of Tort Law and Social Policy

Richard Lempert
Professor, University of Michigan Law School

Robert MacCoun
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Nancy Marder
Professor, University of Southern California

G. Thomas Munsterman
Director, Center for Jury Studies, National Center for State Court

Lorna Propes
Kane Obbish Propes & Garippo

Michael Saks
Professor, University of Iowa College of Law

Peter Schuck
Professor, Yale Law School

Neil Vidmar
Professor, Duke University School of Law

Steven F. Molo
Winston and Strawn




In 1994, Robert A. Clifford endowed the country's first chair in tort law and social policy. The endowment supports faculty research and teaching as well as sponsoring an annual seminar on timely issues related to the law of torts and how it impacts society.