The New York City Bar Association welcomed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, center, for a conversation Thursday on “The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities.”

From left, bar president John Kiernan, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, joined panelists Sir Jeffrey Jowell, the founding director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law who moderated the discussion; Breyer; and Lord Jonathan Sumption, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, as well as bar association executive director Bret Parker.