2014 Convention Schedule

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Thursday, June 19
 

  10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Effective Advocacy for Judicial Nominations
 
  12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Student Retreat
 
  2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Speed Networking
 
  4:00 p.m. Silent Auction Opens
 
  4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Opening Session: Making Your Way In-House
 
  5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Attendee Welcome Meet Up
 
  5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. VIP Reception*
 
  7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Gala Dinner
 
    Progressive Champion Award to Peter Edelman
 
    Carliner Award
 
    Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Professor Theodore Shaw in Conversation
 
  9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Student Chapter Happy Hour
 

Friday, June 20
 

  7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Judicial Nominations Task Force Breakfast*
 
  8:00 a.m.  – 9:00 a.m. Lawyer Chapter Leadership Session
 
  8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Book Signing for Michael Waldman’s "The Second Amendment: A Biography"
 
  9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Silent Auction
 
  9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Keynote Address: Rep. Robert C. (Bobby) Scott
 
  9:15 a.m.  – 10:45 a.m. Plenary Panel: "Judicial Activism" Then and Now
 
  10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Book Signing for Laurence Tribe’s "Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution"
 
  11:00 a.m.  – 12:15pm Breakout Sessions
 
   
  •  The Privatization of America
   
  •  Protecting Women's Reproductive Health Care in a Hostile Era
   
  •  Race and the Law in 2014: Still Separate and Unequal?
   
  • Workers and their Unions:  Knox, Harris and the Aftermath
     
  12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
 
    Lawyer Chapter Awards
 
    Progressive Champion Award to Roderick A. Palmore
 
    Plenary Discussion: Reflections on Windsor
 
  2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Plenary Panel: Beyond a Broken Beltway:  State Courts, Legislatures and Cities as Venues for Progressive Change
 
  3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions
 
   
  • Executive Power in a Time of Political Dysfunction
   
  • Seeking an End to Racial Profiling
   
  • Voting Rights in the Post-Shelby County Era
   
  • The Web as the New Battleground over Free Expression
     
  5:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Plenary Panel: Judging Civil Legal Aid
 
  6:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Reception & Silent Auction Close
 
  8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Convention Happy Hour
 

 

Saturday, June 21
 

  8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.  Faculty Advisor Breakfast
 
    Next Generation Leaders Breakfast
 
  9:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.  Plenary Panel: Shedding Light on the PRISM of Government
 
  11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.  Breakout Sessions
 
   
  • Beyond Citizens United and McCutcheon: What Next for Campaign Finance Regulation? 
   
  • Is There a Better Way to Appoint Federal Judges?
   
  • Polluted Equality? The State of Environmental Justice
   
  • Your Day in Court?: The Undermining of Access to Justice
     
  1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Keynote Address: Gov. Ted Strickland
 
  1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.  Networking Lunch
 
    Constance Baker Motley Writing Competition Award
 
    Reproductive Rights and Justice Award (in conjunction with the Center for Reproductive Rights)
 
    Cudahy Award
 
  1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.  Keynote Address: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton
 
  6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Student Networking Dinners
 
  7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.  ACS Night at the Theater: Capitol Steps

 

*Invitation Only