5:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Welcome Reception (The Dubliner, 4 F St NW)

8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Registration and Networking Breakfast (The Heritage Foundation, The Davis Center)

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Plenary Session I - Textualism and Canons of Statutory Construction (The Davis Center)

Josh Blackman, Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law, Houston

12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. - BREAK

12:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. - Luncheon and Discussion - Clerkship and Career Advice: A Conversation with Two Federal Judges (The Davis Center)

The Honorable Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Honorable Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Moderator: John Malcolm - The Heritage Foundation

2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - BREAK

2:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. - Plenary Session - An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics: Making Originalism Empirical (The Davis Center)

James Heilpern, Counsel, Schaerr | Jaffe and President, Judicial Education Institute

The Honorable Thomas Lee, Founder, Lee | Nielsen, Founder and Shareholder, Corpus Juris Advisors and Visiting Professor, BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School

4:15 - 5:30 p.m. - EXTENDED BREAK

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Pre-Lecture Reception (Allison Foyer)

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture (Allison Auditorium)

Remarks: "Can Originalism Be Moral?"

John C. Yoo, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Korea Law Center and Faculty Director, Public Law & Policy Program, UC Berkeley School of Law

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - DINNER

8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Networking Breakfast (The Davis Center)

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Plenary Session III - The Steps to Standout Legal Writing: Bench Memos, Opinions, and Dissents (The Davis Center)

Ross Guberman, President, Legal Writing Pro LLC

12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. - BREAK

12:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Luncheon and Discussion (The Davis Center)

• Emily Hall - Former clerk to Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Circuit Judge Amul Thapar
• Grant Strobl – Former clerk to Circuit Judges David Porter and Edith Jones
• Michael Patton – Former clerk to District Judge Kathryn Mizelle and current clerk to Circuit Judge Barbara Lagoa
• Anika Smith – Former clerk to Circuit Judges Paul Matey and Kyle Duncan
• Moderator: John Malcolm – The Heritage Foundation