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Every September, Due Process Institute hosts Two Views: An Exploration of SCOTUS’s Criminal Law Docket at the historic Willard Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. This one-of-a-kind event features the nation’s only balanced, bipartisan examination of the Supreme Court’s criminal law docket.
Each year, hundreds of lawyers, judges, congressional staff, policy advocates, and other interested attendees gather to celebrate the Constitution and engage with some of the country’s leading constitutional law experts. The event provides a uniquely civil and substantive discussion of the Court’s most important criminal law cases.
7th Annual (September 25, 2025): Watch leading Supreme Court scholars and litigators Jeffrey L. Fisher (Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School) and Erin E. Murphy (Partner, Clement & Murphy) discuss the Supreme Court’s 2024-25 criminal law dockets and read DPI’s accompanying comprehensive guide to the cases.
6th Annual (Sept. 19, 2024): Watch leading Supreme Court scholars and litigators Jeffrey L. Fisher (Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School) and Erin E. Murphy (Partner, Clement & Murphy) discuss the Supreme Court’s 2023-24 criminal law dockets and read DPI’s accompanying comprehensive guide to the cases.
5th Annual (September 22, 2023): Watch leading Supreme Court scholars and litigators Jeffrey L. Fisher (Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School) and Erin E. Murphy (Partner, Clement & Murphy) discuss the Supreme Court’s 2022-23 criminal law dockets and read DPI’s accompanying comprehensive guide to the cases.
4th Annual (Sept. 16, 2022*): Watch leading Supreme Court scholars and litigators Jeffrey L. Fisher (Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School) and Erin E. Murphy (Partner, Clement & Murphy) discuss the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 criminal law dockets and read DPI’s accompanying comprehensive guide to the cases. (*Due to public health restrictions, our 2021 event was cancelled.)
3rd Annual (October 6, 2020): Watch leading Supreme Court scholars and litigators Jeffrey L. Fisher (Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School) and Erin E. Murphy (Partner, Kirkland & Ellis) discuss the Supreme Court’s Fall 2020 criminal law docket and read DPI’s comprehensive guide to the 2019-2020 criminal law cases. (Our 3rd Annual event was held virtually due to public health restrictions.)
Our 1st and 2nd annual programs were not recorded but you may access DPI’s comprehensive guide to the relevant criminal law cases highlighted in those programs here and here.
The 1st Annual Due Process Torch was presented at the organization’s Constitution Day Celebration on September 17, 2019. It was given to the Sung Family in recognition of their contributions to principles of fairness and due process in our criminal legal system. Mr. Thomas Sung, Mrs. Hwei Lin Sung, and daughter Vera Sung traveled to DC to accept the award on the family’s behalf.
The Sung Family’s story has been told through an award-winning documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. Owners of a small community bank in Chinatown, New York City, the Sung’s bank was the only bank prosecuted following the financial crisis of 2008. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary. (Not to mention an impressive 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes). Once the victims of overcriminalization, the family now seeks to educate others about the need for increased due process protections in our criminal legal system. We honor their commitment to preserving core Constitutional values.