• 2016 Symposium

Law of Democracy

 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.

 

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