ACS released a package of proposals for a new Administration - of either party - and hosted a panel discussion on the topics they address. The proposals, contained in two dozen papers, cover a range of law and justice policy areas, including: the Department of Justice's role in civil rights enforcement, criminal justice, and legal advice to the President; liberty, security and the rule of law in the post-911 era; environmental policy; workplace fairness; government transparency; and the regulatory process. Authors of the papers - some of which appear in new issues of ACS's two journals, The Harvard Law & Policy Review and Advance - include former Attorney General Janet Reno, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, former Senator Timothy Wirth, Professors Geoffrey Stone and Dawn Johnsen, and other former high-ranking government officials, distinguished legal scholars, and policy experts. Click here for full text of all the papers or here for video of the event in our multimedia archives.

U.S. Representative Donna Edwards gave opening remarks. The panel discussion featured:

Moderator, Ronald Klain; William Yeomans,
Deborah Pearlstein, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, and Sally Katzen

Representative Donna Edwards, United States House of Representatives (D-MD)

• Moderator, Ron Klain, Chief of Staff to the Attorney General, 1995-1999; Associate Counsel to the President, 1992-1995
• Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School
• Sally Katzen, Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 1999-2001 and Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in OMB, 1993-1998
• Deborah Pearlstein, LAPA Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• William Yeomans, Chief Counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy