2013 NATIONAL CONVENTION SPEAKERS: “…AND JUSTICE FOR ALL”
* Caroline Fredrickson, President, American Constitution Society
Rep. John Lewis, Georgia
Sen. Jeff Merkley, Oregon
Gov. Martin O'Malley, Maryland
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts
Tony West, Acting Associate Attorney General
Kimberly Atkins, Staff Writer, Lawyers USA
Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School
Craig Becker, General Counsel, AFL-CIO
John H. Beisner, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates
John B. Bellinger III, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
Judge Mark W. Bennett, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
Stephen P. Berzon, Founding Partner, Altshuler Berzon LLP
Stephen B. Bright, President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights
Joan Biskupic, Legal Affairs Editor-in-Charge, Reuters
John R. Bowman, Director of Federal Relations, American Association for Justice
* David M. Brodsky, Principal, Brodsky ADR LLC
Rebecca Brown, Newton Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Arthur H. Bryant, Executive Director, Public Justice
Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Derwyn Bunton, Chief District Defender, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Scott Burns, Executive Director, National District Attorneys Association
Rachel Paine Caufield, Professor, Drake University
David D. Cole, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Katie Corrigan, Policy Director for the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Walter E. Dellinger III, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP; former acting Solicitor General
Rep. Crisanta Duran, Colorado General Assembly
Judge Gary Feinerman, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Susan Freiwald, Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law
Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
* Faith E. Gay, Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
* Judge Nancy Gertner, Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School; former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Patti Goldman, Vice President for Litigation, Earthjustice
Willis J. Goldsmith, Partner, Jones Day
Thomas C. Goldstein, Partner, Goldstein & Russell, P.C.
* Linda Greenhouse, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Associate Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, Jobs with Justice
Ryan P. Haygood, Director, Political Participation Group, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
M. Clara Hernandez, Public Defender, El Paso County, Texas
Ann C. Hodges, Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law
Diane L. Houk, Of Counsel, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP
Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Jamil N. Jaffer, Republican Chief Counsel and Senior Advisor, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
* Dawn Johnsen, Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Olatunde Johnson, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
* Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford Law School
Kim M. Keenan, General Counsel, NAACP
Justice Marilyn Kelly, Distinguished Jurist in Residence, Wayne State University Law School; former Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
Jeremy Kidd, Assistant Professor of Law, Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
Adam T. Klein, Partner, Outten & Golden LLP
Judge Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Martin S. Lederman, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Sanford V. Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair and Professor of Government, University of Texas School of Law
David Lieber, Privacy Policy Counsel, Google
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, New York State Court of Appeals
Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times
Justice Goodwin Liu, California Supreme Court
Suzette M. Malveaux, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
Judge Beverly B. Martin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
David A. Martin, Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Clarissa Martínez-De-Castro, Director, Immigration and Civic Engagement, National Council of La Raza
Chief Judge Theodore A. McKee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Cyrus Mehri, Founding Partner, Mehri & Skalet, PLLC
Arthur R. Miller, University Professor, New York University School of Law
Kathleen S. Morris, Associate Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law
Burt Neuborne, Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, New York University School of Law; Founding Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice
Gene R. Nichol, Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity, University of North Carolina School of Law
Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute
Jennifer M. O'Connor, Partner, WilmerHale
Mark W. Osler, Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law
Nina Perales, Vice President of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Richard H. Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law
Matthew Pillischer, Director, Broken On All Sides
* Andrew J. Pincus, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
David Porter, Assistant Federal Defender, Eastern District of California
Manu Raju, Senior Congressional Reporter, POLITICO
Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO, National Constitution Center; Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Steve Sanders, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Mark Schneider, Counsel for Political Programs and Associate General Counsel, SEIU
Christopher A. Seeger, Partner, Seeger Weiss LLP
Jonathan D. Selbin, Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Steven R. Shapiro, Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Joanna Shepherd-Bailey, Associate Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
Neil S. Siegel, Professor of Law and Political Science and Co-Director of the Program in Public Law, Duke University School of Law
* Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Shanna Singh Hughey, Senior Advisor, Office of Mayor Karl Dean (Nashville, Tenn.)
* Cliff Sloan, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates
Kemba Smith Pradia, Author, Poster Child: The Kemba Smith Story; Founder, Kemba Smith Foundation
Shanna Smith, President, National Fair Housing Alliance
Sherrese M. Smith, Chief Counsel to Chairman Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission
Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School
* David A. Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Harry P. Susman, Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP
Peter P. Swire, C. William O'Neill Professor in Law and Judicial Administration, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Nkechi Taifa, Senior Policy Analyst, Open Society Foundations
Franita Tolson, Betty T. Ferguson Professor of Voting Rights, Florida State University College of Law
Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent, NPR
Amanda Tyler, Legislative Counsel, Office of U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (Texas)
John Vail, Vice President and Senior Litigation Counsel, Center for Constitutional Litigation
Jacob L. Vigdor, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Director of Graduate Studies & PhD Program, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy
Judge Vaughn R. Walker, Law Office of Vaughn R. Walker; former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Barry A. Weprin, Partner, Milberg LLP
Justice David Wiggins, Iowa Supreme Court
James E. Williams Jr., Public Defender, Orange and Chatham Counties, North Carolina
Adam Winkler, Professor of Law, University of California Los Angeles School of Law
Judge Diane P. Wood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Elizabeth B. Wydra, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center
* member of the ACS Board of Directors