2012 ACS National Convention Speakers: "Democracy at Stake"

Representative Stacey Y. Abrams, House Minority Leader, Georgia General Assembly

Debo P. Adegbile, Associate Director-Counsel/Director of Litigation, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF)

Jonathan H. Adler, Professor; Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Christine S. Azar, Partner, Labaton Sucharow LLP

Leslie A. Bailey, Staff Attorney, Public Justice

Thomas C. Berg, James L. Oberstar Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of St. Thomas School of Law

Joan Biskupic, Author of biographies on Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (2005), and Justice Antonin Scalia (2009); Legal Affairs Editor-in-Charge, Reuters

Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Policy Link

F. Paul Bland, Jr., Senior Attorney, Public Justice

Lisa Blue, Baron and Blue Law Firm

Steven G. Bradbury, Partner, Dechert LLP, former acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice

Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, Associate Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Bert Brandenburg, Executive Director, Justice at Stake

David Brodsky, Retired Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

Dale Carpenter, Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law, University of Minnesota Law School

Beth Chapman, Alabama Secretary of State; President, National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)

Darren J. Check, Partner, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP

Andrew Cochran, Founder & Editor, 7th Amendment Advocate

Charles I. Cohen, Senior Counsel, Morgan Lewis

Jason S. Cowart, Partner, Pomerantz Haudek Grossman & Gross LLP

Sheriff Vanessa R. Crawford, Petersburg, Virginia

Walter Dellinger, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, former acting U.S. Solicitor General

Judith A. Browne Dianis, Co-Director, Advancement Project 

Joshua Dubin, Founder and CEO, Dubin Consulting

Peter Edelman, Professor of Law; Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Public Policy; Faculty Director, Center on Poverty, Inequality, and  Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center

Jay W. Eisenhofer, Managing Director, Grant & Eisenhofer

Michael J. Faris, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

Andrew G. Ferguson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law

Nathan D. Finch, Member, Motley Rice

Steven E. Fineman, Managing Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein

Patricia First, Principal, The Raben Group

Louis Fisher, Scholar in Residence, The Constitution Project

Catherine Fisk, Founding Faculty and Chancellor's Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Michael J. Gerhardt, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor in Constitutional Law & Director, Center for Law and Government, University of North Carolina School of Law

Michael B. Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice; Director, Center for  Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School

Suzanne B. Goldberg, Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School

Salvatore J. Graziano, Partner, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP

Lucas Guttentag, Robina Foundation Distinguished Senior Research Scholar in Law and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School

Barbara Hart, Chief Operating Officer, Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart, P.C.

Ryan P. Haygood, Director of the Political Participation Group, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF)

Mary Kay Henry, President, SEIU

Bob Herbert, Distinguished Senior Fellow, DEMOS, former Op-Ed columnist, The New York Times

Marielena Hincapié, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center

Alan Jenkins, Executive Director and Co-Founder, The Opportunity Agenda

Anthony Johnstone, Assistant Professor of Law, The University of Montana School of Law

Christopher J. Keller, Partner, Labaton Sucharow LLP

Deborah P. Kelley, Partner, Deputy General Counsel, Dickstein Shapiro LLP

Justice Marilyn Kelly, Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court

Adam T. Klein, Partner, Outten & Golden LLP

Judge Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Martin S. Lederman, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Justin Levitt, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School

Wilma B. Liebman, former National Labor Relations Board Chairman

Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times

Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate

Stacey R. Long, Director of Public Policy & Government Affairs, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

Daniel J. Losen, Director, Center for Civil Rights Remedies of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA

David Madland, Director of the American Worker Project, Center for American Progress

William P. Marshall, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law

Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Justice Ruth V. McGregor, former Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court

Lawrence Mead, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director, Director of the Center for Liberty, American Civil Liberties Union

Steven J. Metalitz, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Arthur R. Miller, University Professor, New York University School of Law

Stephanie Moore, Chief Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet

Elie Mystal, Editor, Above the Law

Gene Nichol, Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity, University of North Carolina School of Law

Nina Perales, Director of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco

Castle Redmond, Program Manager, The California Endowment

Judge Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Darren J. Robbins, Partner, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP

Melissa Rogers, Director, Center for Religion and Public Affairs, Wake Forest University Divinity School; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution

Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, The George Washington University

Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Carlos Sandoval, Filmmaker

Nancy Schiffer, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO

Ira A. Schochet, Partner, Labaton Sucharow LLP

Susannah Shakow, President and Board Chair, Running Start

Theodore M. Shaw, Professor of Professional Practice in Law, Columbia Law School

Mark Shurtleff, Attorney General for Utah

Bradley A. Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law, Capital University Law School

Paul M. Smith, Partner, Jenner & Block

Stephen D. Susman, Partner, Susman Godfrey L.L.P.

Justice Clifford W. Taylor, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court;  Of Counsel, Miller Canfield

Zephyr Teachout, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Judge Steven C. Teske, Chief Judge, Juvenile Court, Clayton County, Georgia

Suja A. Thomas, Professor, University of Illinois College of Law

Michael Tomasky, Editor-in-Chief, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas; Special Correspondent, Newsweek and The Daily Beast

John Vail, Vice President and Senior Litigation Counsel, Center for Constitutional Litigation

Barry A. Weprin, Partner, Milberg LLP

Fred Wertheimer, Founder and President, Democracy 21

Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Member, Whatley Drake & Kallas LLC

Elizabeth B. Wydra, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center

Monica Youn, Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow, New York University School of Law