The American Constitution Society’s Northeast Regional Student Convening
“The Future of Equality”
Harvard Law School
Wasserstein Building, Room 2012
Saturday, November 16, 2013
9:30-9:55am
BREAKFAST
10:00-10:10am
WELCOME ADDRESS
Martha Minow – Dean of Harvard Law School
10:10-10:45am
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Tony West – Associate Attorney General of the United States
11:00am-12:00pm
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: DISCRETION, MASS INCARCERATION, AND
DEFENDANTS’ RIGHTS
• Moderator: Charles J. Ogletree – Director, Charles Hamilton Houston
Institute for Race & Justice; Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Harvard
Law School
• Ronald S. Sullivan – Director, Criminal Justice Institute; Clinical Professor of
Law, Harvard Law School
• Andrew Crespo – Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
• Jessica Eaglin – Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice, Justice Program
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH AND STUDENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS
1:00-2:00pm
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: FROM UNIONS AFTER 2010 TO
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
• Moderator: Brishen Rogers – Assistant Professor of Law, Temple
University Beasley School of Law
• Shannon Liss-Riordan – Partner, Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C.
• Michael Fischl – Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
• Lydia Edwards – Director, Legal Services and the Domestic Worker Law
and Policy Clinic at the Brazilian Immigrant Center in Boston
2:15-3:15pm
THE PRICE OF JUSTICE: CAMPAIGN FINANCE DEREGULATION AND THE
THREAT TO STATE JUDICIAL ELECTIONS
• Moderator: Jon Hanson – Alfred Smart Professor of Law, Harvard Law
School
• Ellen Weintraub – Chair, Federal Election Commission
• Alicia Bannon – Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice, Democracy Program
• Bert Brandenburg – Executive Director, Justice at Stake
3:30-4:30pm
FEATURED REMARKS
Mo Cowan – former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
5:00-7:00pm
HAPPY HOUR AND REGIONAL NETWORKING
Tommy Doyle’s Irish Pub in Harvard Square
96 Winthrop St, Cambridge, MA
7:30pm
SMALL GROUP NETWORKING DINNERS
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Sunday, November 17 , 2013
9:00-9:25am
BREAKFAST
9:30-10:30am
EQUALITY IN THE INTERNET AGE: PRIVACY LAW, DATA ACCESS, AND
THE NSA
• Moderator: Christopher T. Bavitz – Managing Director, Cyberlaw Clinic at
the, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Clinical Instructor &
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
• Judge James G. Carr – U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio; U.S.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, 2002-2008
• Andrew Crocker – Legal Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Alex Abdo – Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
10:45am-11:45am
ACCESS TO COURTS: ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS, CLASS ACTIONS,
AND DUE PROCESS AFTER AMERICAN EXPRESS
• David Webber – Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of
Law
• Lauren Willis – Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law
School
• Max Weinstein – Clinical instructor, Predatory Lending & Consumer
Protection Clinic, WilmerHale Legal Services Center.
• Lauren Guth Barnes – Partner, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
11:45am-12:00pm
CLOSING REMARKS