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The People's Veto: Criminal Juries from the Founding to Now
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Sep 3 2025
Wednesday 12:00 p.m. MDT    

The People's Veto: Criminal Juries from the Founding to Now

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Ricketson Law Building (University of Denver Sturm College of Law)
2255 E Evans Ave
Denver, CO 80210
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Michael Z. Fox
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Qualified Immunity: A Live Recording of the "Short Circuit" Podcast
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Qualified Immunity: A Live Recording of the "Short Circuit" Podcast

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University of Denver Sturm College of Law
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Laurent Sacharoff • Anthony Sanders
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Presidential Immunity and Trump v. U.S.
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Presidential Immunity and Trump v. U.S.

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University of Denver Sturm College of Law
2255 E Evans Ave
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Josh Blackman • Alan Chen
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Michael Z. Fox

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Michael Fox is a Legal Fellow in the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice. 

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Laurent Sacharoff

Laurent Sacharoff

Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law - University of Denver

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Laurent Sacharoff’s research focuses on criminal procedure, especially the history of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. He has a particular interest in the history of pre-trial criminal procedure including search and arrest warrants, preliminary examinations, and pre-trial commitment. He also writes on computer law and crime, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments as applied to digital searches.

His work has appeared or will appear in the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, and the Fordham Law Review, as well as popular press articles in Politico and The Washington Post. His work has been regularly cited by courts, particularly on the issue of compelled passwords for digital devices and encryption.

Professor Sacharoff joined the Denver faculty in fall 2022, where he teaches or will teach criminal law, criminal procedure, and cybercrime. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law for 12 years, where he was named outstanding professor of the year in 2015, and the University-wide Rising Teacher of the year in 2016.

Before academia, Prof. Sacharoff clerked for the Honorable John S. Martin, Jr. in the Southern District of New York and then joined the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he was the pro-bono fellow handling prison litigation, as well as a litigation associate. Professor Sacharoff also worked as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York.

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Anthony Sanders

Anthony Sanders

Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement, Institute for Justice

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Anthony Sanders is the Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement (CJE) at the Institute for Justice and a senior attorney. He joined IJ in 2010. As CJE’s director, he educates the public about the proper role of judges in enforcing constitutional limits on the size and scope of government. As a senior attorney he litigates cutting-edge constitutional cases protecting economic liberty, private property, freedom of speech and other individual liberties in both federal and state courts across the country.

One area of Anthony’s expertise is on using state constitutions to protect individual rights. He is the author of the book, published by University of Michigan Press, Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters. He has also written several law review articles on state constitutional law, unenumerated rights, judicial review, economic liberty, property rights, international law, and other subjects. His work has appeared in publications such as the Iowa Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, American University Law Review, and Rutgers Law Review, and he has published opinion pieces in leading media outlets across the country. Further, he frequently speaks to various audiences on these matters and others, including judicial engagement, free speech, civil forfeiture, and the continuing importance of Magna Carta. Additionally, he hosts the weekly Short Circuit podcast, which often records live in front of law student audiences.

Anthony has litigated several cases in various state courts on state constitutional protections, as well as in federal courts on matters such as economic liberty, free speech, administrative law, and fines and fees abuse. Prior to joining IJ, Anthony served as a law clerk to Justice W. William Leaphart on the Montana Supreme Court. Anthony also worked for several years in private practice in Chicago where he was an active member of the Chicago Bar Association and chaired its Civil Rights Committee.

Anthony received his law degree cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2004, where he served as an articles submission editor for the Minnesota Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A dual U.S. and U.K. citizen, Anthony grew up on the islands of Vashon in Washington State, and Alderney in the British Channel Islands.

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Josh Blackman

Josh Blackman

Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law Houston

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Josh Blackman is a national thought leader on constitutional law and the United States Supreme Court. Josh’s work was quoted during two presidential impeachment trials. He has testified before Congress and advises federal and state lawmakers. Josh regularly appears on TV, including NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and the BBC. Josh is also a frequent guest on NPR and other syndicated radio programs. He has published commentaries in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and leading national publications.

Since 2012, Josh has served as a professor  at the South Texas College of Law Houston. He holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law. Josh is an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Josh has written more than seven dozen law review articles that have been cited more than a thousand times. Josh was selected as the Jurist of the Year by the Texas Journal of Law & Public Policy, received the inaugural Meese III Originalism Award, and was awarded the Inaugural Joseph Story Award. Josh was selected by Forbes Magazine for the “30 Under 30” in Law and Policy. Josh is the President of the Harlan Institute, and founded FantasySCOTUS, the Internet’s Premier Supreme Court Fantasy League. He blogs at the Volokh Conspiracyand posts@JoshMBlackman.

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Alan Chen

Alan Chen

Professor, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law

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