Video: The ACS 10th Anniversary National Convention
Thursday, June 16, 2011
"Different Ways to Make a Difference: Nontraditional Lawyers and Their Impact on the Law" featuring:
- Ruben Bolling, Cartoonist, Tom the Dancing Bug
- Lisa Brown, Executive Director, Government Reform for Competitiveness and Innovation Initiative, Moderator
- Barry Eisler, Author, Thrillers including The Lost Coast (2011) and Inside Out (2010)
- Seema Gajwani, Program Officer for Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Public Welfare Foundation
- Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate
- Eric Liu, Co-Founder, The True Patriot Network
- Matthew McGough, Author, Screenwriter, including episodes for NBC's "Law and Order"
"Gala Dinner Featured Speaker: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder"
Friday, June 17, 2011
- Akhil Reed Amar, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Joan Biskupic, Author of biographies of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (2005) and Justice Antonin Scalia (2009); Legal Affairs Correspondent, USA Today
- Pamela S. Karlan, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
- Geoffrey R. Stone, Professor of Law, Univ. of Chicago Law School
- Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Judge Diane P. Wood, US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
"Judicial Independence in Peril?" featuring:
- Senior Associate Justice Mark D. Martin, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice
- Richard Neely, Former Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; Partner, Neely & Callaghan
- Judge Stephen Reinhardt, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Justice Harold See Jr., Former Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
- Justice Myra C. Selby, Former Associate Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court; Partner, Ice Miller LLP
- Justice Marsha Ternus, Former Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
"Dodd-Frank and the Future of Securities Litigation" featuring:
- Christine S. Azar, Partner, Labaton Sucharow LLP
- Daniel Berger, Shareholder, Berger & Montague, PC
- David M. Brodsky, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
- Darren J. Check, Partner, Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check LLP
- George T. Conway III, Partner, Litigation, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Russell D. Duncan, Partner, Orrick
- Jay W. Eisenhofer, Managing Director, Grant & Eisenhofer PA
- Jill E. Fisch, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Daniel Fisher, Senior Editor, Forbes Magazine
- Byron S. Georgiou, President, Georgiou Enterprises
- Salvatore J. Graziano, Partner, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP
- Holly J. Gregory, Corporate Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
- Karl A. Groskaufmanis, Partner, Fried Frank
- Marc I. Gross, Partner, Pomerantz, Haudek, Grossman & Gross LLP
- Lee Harris, Professor, University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
- Barbara J. Hart, Chief Operating Officer, Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart PC
- Donald C. Langevoort, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
- Francis J. Menton Jr. Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
- John C. Millian, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Saule T. Omarova, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Andrew J. Pincus, Partner, Mayer Brown
- Paul C. Saunders, Of Counsel, Litigation, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
- Damon A. Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO
- Barry A. Weprin, Partner, Milberg LLP
"Sentenced for Life: Considering the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions" featuring:
- Judge Lynn S. Adelman, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- Cynthia Jones, Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law
- U.S. Representative Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives
- Nkechi Taifa, Senior Policy Analyst for Criminal Civil, and Racial Justice Reform, Open Society Policy Center
- Yolanda Vázquez, Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Melvyn I. Weiss, Founder, MIW Mediating & Consulting LLC
"Privatization, the American Worker, and the Role of Government" featuring:
- Laura A. Dickinson, Professor of Law, Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
- Kerry Korpi, Director of Research and Collective Bargaining Services, AFSCME
- Alice O'Brien, General Counsel, National Education Association,
- James Sherk, Sr. Policy Analyst in Labor Economics, The Heritage Foundation
- Portia Wu, VP, National Partnership for Women & Families
"Luncheon with Featured Speaker U.S. Department of State Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh"
"Immigration: The Federal-State Showdown" featuring:
- Garrett Epps, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
- Deirdre C. Fitzpatrick, Associate General Counsel, SEIU
- Michael S.Greve, John G. Searle Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- Angela Maria Kelley, Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy, Center for American Progress
- Neil J. Kinkopf, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
- Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
"Globalization, Corporate Accountability and the Courts" featuring:
- F. Paul Bland Jr, Senior Attorney, Public Justice
- Judith Brown Chomsky, Solo Practitioner, Cooperating Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
- Kent Greenfield, Professor, Boston College Law School
- Isaac Nesser, Associate, Quinn Emanuel
- Owen C. Pell, Partner, White & Case LLP
- Jeanne M. Woods, Professor, Loyola University College of Law
"Redistricting in 2011" featuring:
- Kristen Clarke, Co-Director, Political Participation Group, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Gilda R. Daniels, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
- R. Keith Gaddie, Professor of Political Science, University of Oklahoma
- J. Gerald Hebert, Executive Director and Director of Litigation, Campaign Legal Center
- Marcia Johnson-Blanco, Acting Co-Director, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Nina Perales, Director of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
"Reframing and Reclaiming the High Ground for Reproductive Freedom" featuring:
- Jack M. Balkin, Professor, Yale Law School
- Emily Bazelon, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School
- Linda Greenhouse, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School
- Helene Krasnoff, Senior Staff Attorney for Public Policy Litigation and Law, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Louise Melling, Director, Center for Liberty, American Civil Liberties Union
"Featured Speaker U.S. Representative Donna F. Edwards"
Saturday, June 18, 2011
- Randy E. Barnett, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Walter E. Dellinger III, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP; former acting US Solicitor General
- Dawn Johnsen, Professor of Law, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law
- Walter Kamiat, Associate General Counsel, SEIU
- Simon Lazarus, Public Policy Counsel, National Senior Citizens Law Center
- Neera Tanden, Chief Operating Officer, Center for American Progress
"Executive Power and National Security" featuring:
- Martin S. Lederman, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Eric Lichtblau, Justice Department Correspondent, The New York Times
- Elisa Massimino, President and Chief Executive Officer, Human Rights First
- Neomi Rao, Professor of Law, George Mason university School of Law
- Peter M. Shane, Professor of Law, Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law
"Electronic Privacy Revisited" featuring:
- Randal S. Milch, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Paul Ohm, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
- Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, George Washington University School of Law
- Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Solveig Marilyn Singleton, Vice President & Senior Analyst, Convergence Law Institute
- Tim Sparapani, Director of Public Policy, Facebook
"The Struggle for LGBT Equality: A Conversation about Ends, Means, and the Path Ahead" featuring:
- Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director, Lambda Legal
- Holning Lau, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Brian Moulton, Chief Legislative Counsel, Human Rights Campaign
- Nancy Polikoff, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- Tobias Barrington Wolff, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Evan Wolfson, Founder and President, Freedom to Marry
- Alan Jenkins, Executive Director and Co-Founder, The Opportunity Agenda
- Olati Johnson, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
- Adam T. Klein, Partner, Outten & Golden LLP
- Kenneth L. Marcus, Executive Vice President & Director of the Anti-Semitism Initiative, Institute for Jewish and Community Research
- Jocelyn Samuels, Senior Counsel, US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
- Reva Siegel, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Floyd Abrams, Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindell LLP
- Judge Marsha S. Berzon, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
- Paul D. Clement, Partner, Bancroft PLLC; former US Solicitor General
- Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times
- Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law, New York Law School
- Monica Youn, Senior Counsel, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law