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Day One: The Presidency
Welcome and Conference Overview
Vincent D. Rougeau, AALS President and Dean, Boston College Law School
Reconstructing the Presidency
Panel 1
Robert Bauer, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Co-Director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic, New York University School of Law, White House Counsel, 2010-2011
Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, 2003-2004
Moderator: Darby Dickerson, AALS Immediate Past-President and Dean, UIC John Marshall Law School
Preventing Abuses of Presidential Power for Personal or Political Gain
Panel 2
Kathleen Clark, Professor of Law, Washington University St. Louis, School of Law
Jeffrey Crouch, Assistant Professor, American University
W. Neil Eggleston, Lecture in Law, Harvard Law School, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, White House Counsel, 2014-2017
Jide Okechuku Nzelibe, Benjamin Mazur Summer Research Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Anne Joseph O’Connell, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Moderator: Judith Areen, Executive Director, Association of American Law Schools
Update from the American Bar Association (ABA)
Patricia Lee Refo, President, American Bar Association, and Partner at Snell & Wilmer
The President and the Independence of the Justice Department
Panel 3
Jamie Gorelick, Partner, WilmerHale, Chair, Regulatory and Government Affairs
Neil Kinkopf, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
Saikrishna Prakash, James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Kimberly Wehle, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
Moderator: Lauren Robel, Val Nolan Professor of Law, Provost, and Executive Vice President, Indiana University — Bloomington
Improving the Presidency: The Path Forward
Panel 4
Laura A. Dickinson, Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Alberto R. Gonzales, Dean and Doyle Rogers Distinguished Professor of Law, Belmont University College of Law, United States Attorney General, 2005-2007
Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center
Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law
Moderator: Daniel B. Rodriguez, Harold Washington Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Closing Remarks
Darby Dickerson, AALS Immediate Past-President and Dean, University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School
Day Two: Improving Democracy, Race and Voting, and Presidential Elections
Welcome and Conference Day Two Overview
Vince Rougeau, AALS President and Dean, Boston College Law School
Opening Session
Introduction
Vince Rougeau, AALS President and Dean, Boston College Law School
Opening Remarks
Representative John Sarbanes, U.S. Representative, Maryland’s Third Congressional District
Congressional Legislation to Protect the Electoral Process
Panel 5
Guy Uriel-Charles, Edward and Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Edward (Ned) B. Foley, Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law; Director, Election Law at Ohio State, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Richard Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California Irvine, School of Law
Lisa Marshall Manheim, Charles I. Stone Associate Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
Bradley A. Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/ Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law, Capital University Law School
Moderator: Erwin Chemerinsky, AALS President-Elect and Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Race and Voting Rights
Panel 6
Introduction: Kellye Testy, President and CEO, Law School Admission Council
Kent Greenfield, Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School
Ellen D. Katz, Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law, The University of Michigan Law School
Bertrall Ross, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley, School of Law
Franita Tolson, Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Moderator: Heather Gerken, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Improving Presidential Elections
Panel 7
Joshua A. Douglas, Ashland, Inc-Spears Distinguished Research Professor of Law, University of Kentucky, J. David Rosenberg College of Law
Michael T. Morley, Associate Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Derek T. Muller, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Richard H. Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law
Daniel Tokaji, Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
Moderator: Camille Nelson, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law
Conference Wrap Up
Vincent D. Rougeau, AALS President and Dean, Boston College Law School