ARC @ 2025 Second Circuit Judicial Conference
Bolton Landing, NY
2-4 June, 2025
Sagamore Resort
Bolton Landing, NY
ARC is honored to participate in the 2025 Second Circuit Judicial Conference, 2-4 June. The conference serves as a gathering space for the circuit’s leading legal minds, discussing pressing issues concerning the fair and effective administration of justice. Through the convening, diverse stakeholders, such as judges, lawyers, and academics, will share experiences and engage in timely dialogue on challenges to judicial practice and strategies for resilience and growth.
On 4 June, ARC’s Executive Director, Julie Trébault, will participate in a panel discussion with Yale Law School Professor Reva Siegel and Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow at the UC Davis School of Law Brian Soucek. The conversation will be moderated by Robert C. Post, current professor and former dean of Yale Law School. Throughout the panel, speakers will discuss censorship and legal persecution of the arts. ARC’s contributions will center on providing insights from the viewpoint of artists and the organizations that support creatives at legal and other forms of risk due to their craft. More information on the speakers can be found below.
Speakers
Brian Soucek
Brian Soucek is a constitutional law scholar and philosopher of art whose work ranges from equality and free speech law, to academic freedom, to topics at the intersection of law and aesthetics. Professor Soucek’s work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, referenced and excerpted in leading casebooks in Civil Procedure, Sexual Orientation Law, and Immigration Law, discussed by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and honored with the Dukeminier Award from UCLA’s Williams Institute for the year’s best article on sexual orientation and gender identity law. Professor Soucek’s forthcoming book, The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education, will be published by the University of Chicago Press.
Professor Soucek is a member of the American Association of University Professors’ “Committee A” on Academic Freedom and Tenure. He recently chaired the University of California’s system-wide Committee on Academic Freedom, was a fellow with UC’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, led the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Law and the Humanities, and served a three-year term as trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics. Professor Soucek was elected to the American Law Institute in July 2024.
Reva Siegel
Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Siegel’s writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution.
Her articles include: The Levels-of-Generality Game: “History and Tradition” in the Roberts Court, 47 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 565 (2024), Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It, 134 Yale L.J. 1071 (2025) (with Mary Ziegler); and The History of History and Tradition: The Roots of Dobbs’s Method (and Originalism) in the Defense of Segregation, 133 Yale L.J.F. 99 (2023), among many others.
Professor Siegel is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History. She serves on the board of Advisors and the Board of Academic Advisors of the American Constitution Society and on the General Council of the International Society of Public Law.
Robert C. Post (Moderator)
Robert C. Post is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He served as the School’s 16th dean from 2009 until 2017. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
Post specializes in constitutional law, with a particular emphasis on the First Amendment. Post has written and edited numerous books and publishes regularly in legal journals and other publications; exemplary articles and chapters include “Data Privacy and Dignitary Privacy: Google Spain, The Right to be Forgotten, and the Construction of the Public Sphere” (Duke Law Journal, 2018); “The Politics of Religion: Democracy and the Conscience Wars,” in The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance Between Religion, Identity, and Equality (Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld, eds., Cambridge University Press 2018), and more.
Post is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Julie Trébault
Julie Trébault is the Founder and Executive Director of Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), a global organization dedicated to safeguarding artistic freedom and supporting artists and cultural workers under threat. Under her leadership, ARC provides critical resources and support to more than 2,000 artists facing persecution from state and non-state actors, empowering them to overcome challenges to their creative expression. Prior to founding ARC, she served as director of public programs at the Museum of the City of New York and the Center for Architecture.
