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Speaker Information
James Heilpern
President and Chairman of the Board, Judicial Education Institute
Biography
James Heilpern is President and Chairman of the Board of the Judicial Education Institute, a 501(c)(3) organization that provides high quality judicial education seminars to judges nationwide. He specializes in helping judges harness new technology to improve the interpretive process. In the last three years alone, he has trained approximately 250 judges from at least 50 different jurisdictions, as well as hundreds of practicing attorneys, on topics related artificial intelligence, corpus linguistics, and statutory interpretation. He also serves as counsel at the law firm Schaerr-Jaffe, where he regularly represents clients at all three levels of the federal judiciary, as well as before state supreme courts. He was part of the team the represented the state of Georgia in Texas v. Pennsylvania, et. al., successfully persuading the Supreme Court to dismiss Texas’ last-ditch effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Heilpern’s scholarship has been cited by the Second Circuit, the DDC, and the Virginia Supreme Court, as well as dozens of times in the merits and amicus briefs of Trump v. Anderson. He is a Research Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, and previously served as a Senior Fellow at the BYU Law School; as General Counsel of an ed-tech start up; and as a strategic advisor to an artificial intelligence company. He graduated magna cum laude from the BYU Law School and with highest honors and with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He previously clerked from Judge Edith Clement on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Robert H. Cleland on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.