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Term Talk: National Pork Producers Council v. Ross

The nation's top legal scholars discuss what federal judges need to know about the U.S. Supreme Court's most impactful decisions. 

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Erwin Chemerinsky, Michael McConnell, Hamid M. Khan
October 12, 2023

Dormant Commerce Clause. Experts discuss the reaffirmation of the Pike balancing test and express different interpretations of the Supreme Court’s treatment of extra-territoriality principles.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Michael McConnell, former Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford University Law School; and Hamid Khan, Judicial Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

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