Symposium: Law of Democracy
Please note: Registration for most panels will remain open until the day before the conference (Thursday, February 4, 2016). We have reached capacity for the dinner keynote event with Commissioner Ravel, the continental breakfast, and the closing lunch event with Ben Ginsburg, and we will no longer be accepting registration requests for those events.
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
2015 — Who Knows: Law in an Information Society
2014 — The Civil Rights Act at Fifty
2012 — The Privacy Paradox: Privacy and Its Conflicting Values
2011 — The Future of Patents: Bilski and Beyond
