The Marshall FORUM ON The Rule of Law

UK participation included:

Supreme Court of the United Kingdom: Lord Reed (President), Lord Hodge (Deputy President), Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose, Lord Richards, Lady Simler

Chief Justices: Baroness Carr, Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales; Dame Siobhan Keegan, Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland; Lord Pentland, Lord President of the Court of Session (Scotland)

Royal Courts of Justice: Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls; Lord Justice Snowden, Court of Appeal

Barristers and Solicitors: Sir James Eadie KC; Jonathan Crow CVO KC; Barbara Mills KC; Victoria Wakefield KC; Peter Knox KC; Charles Clark (Linklaters LLP); Kate Gibbons (Clifford Chance US LLP); Georgia Dawson (Freshfields and The CityUK); Alderman Vincent Keaveny CBE (DLA Piper)

Oxford Session Academics / Heads of House / Fellows of All Souls College: John Armour, Roderick Bagshaw, Timothy Endicott, Donal Nolan, Rebecca Williams, Lionel Smith, Robert Stevens, Wolfgang Ernst, Lucia Zedner, Ignacio Cofone, Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Sir John Vickers, Dinah Rose KC, Helen Mountfield KC, Sir Ernest Ryder, Sir Launcelot Henderson, Lord Pannick, Dr Wilmot-Smith

US participation included:

Supreme Court of the United States: Associate Justices Samuel Alito and (ret.) Stephen Breyer (Marshall Scholar 1959)

Appellate and District Courts: Hon. David J. Barron, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; Hon. Colm F. Connolly (Fellow), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware; Hon. Robert Dow, Counselor to Chief Justice John Roberts and U.S. District Court Judge, Northern District of Illinois; Hon. Robin L. Rosenberg, Southern District of Florida; Hon. Charles R. Breyer, Senior Judge, Northern District of California; Hon. Barbara M. G. Lynn (Fellow), Senior Judge, Northern District of Texas

Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers: Karen L. Dunn; Michael L. O’Donnell; Catherine M. Recker; Lou Anna Red Corn; Robert C. L. Vaughan; Douglas R. Young

Marshall Scholars: Megan Ceronsky (Marshall Scholar 2001); Emily Kapur (Marshall Scholar 2010); Harold H. Koh (Marshall Scholar 1975); Todd D. Rakoff (Marshall Scholar 1967); Jeffrey Rosen (Marshall Scholar 1986)

October 23–26, 2025

The Association of Marshall Scholars (AMS) and the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) jointly hosted leading members of the American and British judiciaries, legal communities, and academia for the 2025 Forum on the Rule of Law, held in London and Oxford from October 23–26, 2025.  

Building on the success of the 2022 Forum on the Rule of Law hosted at the Supreme Court of the United States, this year’s gathering advanced transatlantic dialogue on the rule of law. Over four days, participants explored issues spanning free speech, privacy, and the Internet; administrative and environmental law; legal and constitutional interpretation; judicial independence;  and emerging technologies.

Partners

The Association of Marshall Scholars (co-host)

American College of Trial Lawyers (co-host)