Thursday, June 12 6:00 p.m. Welcome Reception with Remarks by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D- CO) Friday, June 13 8:00 9:00 a.m. Lawyer Chapter Leadership Session 9:30 11:15 a.m. Plenary Panel What s At Stake: Law and Justice Policies in a New Administration Greg Craig, Williams & Connolly LLP Charles J. Cooper, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC Walter E. Dellinger III, Professor of Law, Duke Law School Jamie Gorelick, WilmerHale Wade Henderson, President & CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Elena Kagan, Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School John Podesta, Executive Director, Center for American Progress 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions (In)effective Assistance of Counsel for Criminal Defendants: Constitutional Standards and Practical Solutions Judge Merrick Garland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge Louis Sands, U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia Stephen Bright, President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights Michael Dreeben, Deputy Solicitor General, Office of the Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jenner & Block LLP Beth Wilkinson, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Fannie Mae
Voter Participation: Examining the Impact of State Election Laws Terrance D. Carroll, Colorado State Representative and Assistant Majority Leader Sam Hirsch, Jenner & Block LLP Robert Kelner, Covington & Burling LLP John Sullivan, Associate General Counsel, SEIU Wendy Weiser, Deputy Director for the Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice Rights Without Remedies Justice Peter Rubin, Court of Appeals of Massachusetts Victor Bolden, General Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Rachel Geman, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP Marcia Greenberger, Founder and Co-President, National Women s Law Center Neal Mollen, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Outsourcing Government? The Privatization of Public Responsibilities Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School Laura Dickinson, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law Scott Horton, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Jeh Charles Johnson, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Kerry Korpi, Research Director, AFSCME Peter Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1:15 2:30 p.m. Luncheon with Featured Remarks by Senator Patrick Leahy (D- Vt.) 2:45 4:15 p.m. Breakout Sessions Ensuring Access to Justice for Detainees in the War on Terror Judge Marsha S. Berzon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit James Carafano, Assistant Director, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation Joanne Mariner, Director of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch Alberto J. Mora, Vice President and General Counsel, International Division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Deborah Pearlstein, LAPA Visiting Scholar, Princeton University Benjamin Wittes, Fellow & Research Director in Public Law, The Brookings Institute Plea Bargains and the Role of Judges Judge Lynn S. Adelman, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Judge James P. Jones, Chief District Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia Judge Robert W. Pratt, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Cynthia Jones, Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law Craig Watkins, District Attorney, Dallas, Texas
Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Aaron Chatterji, Assistant Professor of Strategy, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University Jay Eisenhofer, Grant & Eisenhofer Damon Silvers, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO D. Gordon Smith, Professor of Law, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University Lawrence v. Texas Five Years Out: Can the Promises of Liberty and Equality Be Fulfilled? Dale Carpenter, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School Joseph R. Guerra, Sidley Austin LLP Nan Hunter, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School H. Alexander Robinson, CEO, National Black Justice Coalition Paul M. Smith, Jenner & Block LLP 4:30 6:00 p.m. ACS Constance Baker Motley National Moot Court Competition in Constitutional Law (Final Round) 6:30 p.m. Featured Speaker Eric H. Holder Jr. and Reception
Saturday, June 14 9:00 10:45 a.m. Plenary Panel Picking the President: Parties, Primaries, and the Democratic Process Jan Witold Baran, Wiley Rein LLP Melody Barnes, Executive Vice President for Policy, Center for American Progress Chris Bowers, Co-Founder, OpenLeft website Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker Pamela S. Karlan, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School Ron Klain, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Revolution, LLC Joe Trippi, Trippi & Associates 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions Guaranteeing Justice in the Civil Justice System: Discussing the Right to Counsel in Civil and Immigration Cases Eleanor Acer, Director of the Refugee Protection Program, Human Rights First John Amaya, Legislative Staff Attorney, Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund F. Paul Bland, Staff Attorney, Public Justice Ted Frank, Resident Fellow and Director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest Alan Morrison, Special Counsel, Fair Elections Network Jonathan M. Smith, Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia Progressive Family Values: Making Work Work for Families Stuart Ishimaru, Commissioner, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Marc Freedman, Director of Labor Law Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Karen Kornbluh, Policy Director for Sen. Barack Obama Ann O Leary, Executive Director, Center on Family and the Workplace, Boalt Law School, University of California, Berkeley Judith Lichtman, Senior Advisor, National Partnership for Women and Families Reva Siegel, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law, Yale Law School Rights in Conflict: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Religious Liberty Judge Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Apepals for the Ninth Circuit Steve Aden, Senior Legal Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund Preeta Bansal, Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom LLP Gene Nichol, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law Lara Schwartz, Legal Director & Chief Legislative Counsel, Human Rights Campaign
The End of Anonymity? Threats to Privacy in a Brave New World Leslie Harris, President, Center for Democracy & Technology Orin Kerr, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School Melissa Ngo, Privacy and Information Policy Consultant Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School Marcy Wilder, Hogan & Hartson LLP 12:45 2:15 p.m. Plenary Luncheon Covering the Court Robert Barnes, The Washington Post Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Tony Mauro, Legal Times Thomas C. Goldstein, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 2:15 4:00 p.m. Plenary Panel Our Enduring Constitution: Applications and Interpretations Judge William Fletcher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Jack M. Balkin, Professor of Law, Yale Law School Randy E. Barnett, Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center Pamela Harris, O Melveny & Myers LLP Goodwin Liu, Professor of Law, Boalt Law School, University of California, Berkeley Theodore M. Shaw, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Kathleen M. Sullivan, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School 4:15 5:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions The Smoking Gun: Interpreting the Second Amendment Paul Butler, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School David Gossett, Mayer Brown LLP Dennis Henigan, Director of the Legal Action Project, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Mark Tushnet, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Adam Winkler, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law A Bill of Rights for the 21st Century Michael Greve, John G. Searle Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Lynn Walker Huntley, President, Southern Education Foundation Alan Jenkins, Executive Director, The Opportunity Agenda
Nina Pillard, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Toward Transparency: Examining Government Secrecy and Public Access to Information Judge Patricia M. Wald, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Ann Beeson, Director of U.S. Programs, Open Society Institute Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel for the National Security Archives at The George Washington University Richard Samp, Chief Counsel, Washington Legal Foundation Geoffrey Stone, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School The United States and Human Rights at Home Ajamu Baraka, Executive Director, U.S. Human Rights Network Gara LaMarche, President & CEO, Atlantic Philanthropies John McGinnis, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law Cynthia Soohoo, Director of the Domestic Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights 7:00 8:30 p.m. Banquet Celebrating Judge Patricia M. Wald, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and member of the ACS Board of Directors; featuring a panel of distinguished former and current judges, including Judge Abner J. Mikva, Judge Judith W. Rogers and Judge David S. Tatel, moderated by Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan