The 2022 Edward Ross Lecture in Litigation
Supreme Court Precedent as Viewed by Federal District Court Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg
A Conversation about the Hobby Lobby Case
March 17, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW
DUANE MORRIS MOOT COURT ROOM
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New guest speaker!
Temple University Beasley School of Law invites you to the 2022 Edward Ross Lecture in Litigation, featuring a conversation between the Honorable Mitchell S. Goldberg, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and interim Dean Rachel Rebouché about the arc of landmark litigation from inception to the Supreme Court, relying on Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby Stores as an example.
The Honorable Mitchell S. Goldberg
Judge Goldberg was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on October 31, 2008. He had previously served on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas.
Judge Goldberg’s career as a practicing attorney started at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office where he worked in both the trial and appellate divisions. He later joined the law firm of Cozen O’Connor, where his practice focused on commercial litigation. Judge Goldberg was eventually promoted to senior partner, and also served as the manager of Cozen’s Arson and Fraud Unit. Judge Goldberg returned to the public sector in 1997, serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where he handled mostly white-collar crime cases, both before the District Court and the United Stated Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Judge Goldberg is a graduate of Temple Law School (1986) where he was a member of Temple’s first trial team. He presently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Temple Law teaching federal law and civil/criminal advanced trial advocacy.
In May of 2017, The Chief Judge of the Third Circuit appointed Judge Goldberg as a visiting judge for the District of Delaware to assist in the handling of patent cases.
Interim Dean Rachel Rebouché
Rachel Rebouché is the Interim Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and the James E. Beasley Professor of Law. Prior to her appointment as Interim Dean, she was the Associate Dean for Research, a position she held from 2017 to 2021. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Health Law Research. Dean Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive health law, feminist legal theory, and family law.
She is an author of Governance Feminism: An Introduction and an editor of Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. She is also the editor of Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten, published by Cambridge University Press, and an author of the sixth edition of the casebook, Family Law, with Professors Leslie Harris and June Carbone. In addition, she is writing a book on reproductive health law that is under contract with NYU Press and editing a collection of essays for Law & Contemporary Problems on the pandemic’s effects on issues in contract law.
Dean Rebouché has served as a co-investigator on two grant-funded research projects related to reproductive health, one housed at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and another funded by the World Health Organization. Her recent research also includes articles in law reviews and in peer-reviewed journals on relational contracts, gestational surrogacy, prenatal genetic testing and genetic counseling, collaborative divorce, parental involvement laws, and international reproductive rights.
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