Lecturer in Law Thomas Goldstein and Professor Pamela Karlan are quoted in a New York Law Journal article:

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld high court expert Thomas Goldstein, a speaker at the panel, said the term just ended would be regarded as "the birth of a new jurisprudential era." Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan added, "All I can say is, what an ugly baby."