Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Is judicial independence under attack by autocrats? Are the courts too slow to fix abuses of power? Should U.S. states appoint, rather than elect, their top judges? How should the global community preserve judicial integrity and influence?

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Thomas Berry, director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute

Baroness Mary Goudie, Labour member, British House of Lords

Floyd Graham, principal and chief executive officer, FG Solicitors

Fernanda Nicola, director, Program on International Organizations Law and Development, American University Washington College of Law

Michael Scott (moderator), senior dean, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.

Sanford J. Ungar (moderator), director, Free Speech Project, Georgetown University.