Redistricting in 2011

On Friday, June 17, 2011 ACS hosted a panel on redistricting in 2011, featuring:

  • Kristen Clarke, Co-Director, Political Participation Group, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • Gilda R. Daniels, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
  • R. Keith Gaddie, Professor of Political Science, University of Oklahoma
  • J. Gerald Hebert, Executive Director and Director of Litigation, Campaign Legal Center
  • Marcia Johnson-Blanco, Acting Co-Director, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • Nina Perales, Director of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Judicial Independence in Peril?

On Friday, June 17, ACS hosted a panel discussion on judicial independence, featuring,

  • Senior Associate Justice Mark D. Martin, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice
  • Richard Neely, Former Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; Partner, Neely & Callaghan
  • Judge Stephen Reinhardt, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Justice Harold See Jr., Former Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
  • Justice Myra C. Selby, Former Associate Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court; Partner, Ice Miller LLP
  • Justice Marsha Ternus, Former Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court

Globalization, Corporate Accountability & the Courts

On Friday, June 17, ACS hosted a panel discussion on globalization and corporate accountability, featuring:

  • F. Paul Bland Jr, Senior Attorney, Public Justice
  • Judith Brown Chomsky, Solo Practitioner, Cooperating Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
  • Kent Greenfield, Professor, Boston College Law School
  • Isaac Nesser, Associate, Quinn Emanuel
  • Owen C. Pell, Partner, White & Case LLP
  • Jeanne M. Woods, Professor, Loyola University College of Law

Dodd-Frank and the Future of Securities Litigation

On Friday, June 17, 2011, ACS hosted a panel discussion featuring:

  • Christine S. Azar, Partner, Labaton Sucharow LLP
  • Daniel Berger, Shareholder, Berger & Montague, PC
  • David M. Brodsky, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
  • Darren J. Check, Partner, Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check LLP
  • George T. Conway III, Partner, Litigation, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
  • Russell D. Duncan, Partner, Orrick
  • Jay W. Eisenhofer, Managing Director, Grant & Eisenhofer PA
  • Jill E. Fisch, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
  • Daniel Fisher, Senior Editor, Forbes Magazine
  • Byron S. Georgiou, President, Georgiou Enterprises
  • Salvatore J. Graziano, Partner, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP
  • Holly J. Gregory, Corporate Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
  • Karl A. Groskaufmanis, Partner, Fried Frank
  • Marc I. Gross, Partner, Pomerantz, Haudek, Grossman & Gross LLP
  • Lee Harris, Professor, University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
  • Barbara J. Hart, Chief Operating Officer, Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart PC
  • Donald C. Langevoort, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Francis J. Menton Jr. Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
  • John C. Millian, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
  • Saule T. Omarova, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
  • Andrew J. Pincus, Partner, Mayer Brown
  • Paul C. Saunders, Of Counsel, Litigation, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
  • Damon A. Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO
  • Barry A. Weprin, Partner, Milberg LLP

Immigration: The Federal-State Showdown

On Friday, June 17 at 2pm, ACS hosted a panel discussion on immigration featuring:

  • Garrett Epps, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
  • Deirdre C. Fitzpatrick, Associate General Counsel, SEIU
  • Michael S.Greve, John G. Searle Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  • Angela Maria Kelley, Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy, Center for American Progress
  • Neil J. Kinkopf, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
  • Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Judge Cudahy Presents the 4th Annual Cudahy Writing Competition Award

Judge Cudahy announces the winner of the Fourth Annual Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law, with introductions by Caroline Fredrickson and Dawn Johnsen. The awards ceremony is followed by remarks by ACS Board Chair and University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone.