Friday, February 5, 2016
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm: OPENING LUNCH
(Manning Faculty Lounge)
[Conference Participants Only]
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: VOTING RIGHTS
(Law School Room 190)
Presentation 1: Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University; Nathaniel Persily, Stanford Law School; and Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presentation 2: Rabia Belt, Stanford Law School
Presentation 3: Samuel Issacharoff, New York University School of Law
Discussants: Jane S. Schacter, Stanford Law School; Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Drexel University School of Law
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm: REDISTRICTING
(Law School Room 190)
Presentation 1: Guy-Uriel Charles, Duke University School of Law & Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Indiana University School of Law
Presentation 2: Edward B. Foley, The Ohio State University College of Law
Presentation 3: Sam Wang, Princeton University
Discussants: Heather Gerken, Yale Law School; Maggie McKinley, Harvard Law School
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm: DINNER AND KEYNOTE SPEECH
Ann M. Ravel, Commissioner, Federal Election Commission
(Law School Lounge)
Saturday, February 6, 2016
8:15 am – 9:15 am: CONTENTINENTAL BREAKFAST
(Law School Lounge)
9:30 am – 11:00 am: CAMPAIGN FINANCE
(Law School Room 190)
Presentation 1: Robert Bauer, Perkins Coie
Presentation 2: Richard L. Hasen, University of California, Irvine, School of Law
Presentation 3: Bertrall Ross, University of California School of Law
Discussants: Spencer A. Overton, George Washington University Law School; Eugene Mazo, Rutgers School of Law
11:20 am – 12:50 pm: ROLE OF DONORS, LOBBYISTS, AND PARTISAN INFLUENCE
(Law School Room 190)
Presentation 1: Michael S. Kang, Emory University School of Law
Presentation 2: Maggie McKinley, Harvard Law School
Presentation 3: Richard H. Pildes, New York University School of Law
Discussants: Michael W. McConnell, Stanford Law School; Justin Weinstein-Tull, Stanford Law School
12:50 pm – 2:00 pm: LUNCH AND PRESENTATION
Benjamin L. Ginsberg, Jones Day
(Law School Lounge)
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm: VOTING RIGHTS (Law School Room 190)
Presentation 1: Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University
Presentation 2: Nicholas Stephanopoulos, University of Chicago Law School
Presentation 3: Justin Weinstein-Tull, Stanford Law School
Discussants: Spencer A. Overton, George Washington University Law School; Rabia Belt, Stanford Law School
Thank you to our sponsors.
Past Symposia
- 2024 Symposium - Speech at Twenty-First Century Schools and Universities
- 2023 Symposium - Access to Justice
- 2022 Symposium - Safeguarding the Fundamental Right to Vote
- 2021 Symposium - Policing, Race, and Power
- 2020 Symposium - Lawyering in the Age of Climate Change
- 2019 Symposium - The Independence of the American Judicial System
- 2018 Symposium - Federalism in an Age of Polarization
- 2017 Symposium - Lawyers and Leadership: Raising the Bar
- 2015 Symposium - Who Knows?
- 2014 Symposium - The Civil Rights Act at Fifty
- 2012 Symposium - The Privacy Paradox
- 2011 Symposium - The Future of Patents