Going to the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting, January 2-5 in Washington, DC? Trying to decide whether to go? It’s a bumper year for those interested in Election Law and Legislation, with these panels of interest on the program:
Saturday, January 3, 2015
10:30 am – 12:15 pm Legislation & Law of the Political Process, Co-Sponsored by Section on Administrative Law Legislation/Regulation and the Core Curriculum (Papers to be published in Journal of Legal Education)
- James J. Brudney, Fordham University School of Law
- Abbe Gluck, Yale Law School
- John F. Manning, Harvard Law School
- Kevin Stack, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Daniel P. Tokaji, Chris Walker & Dakota Rudesill, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
- Speaker from a Call for Papers: Deborah A. Widiss, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Moderator: Olatunde C. Johnson, Columbia University School of Law
10:30 am – 12:15 pm Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Taxation IRS Oversight of Charitable and Other Exempt Organizations – Broken? Fixable? (Papers to be published in Pittsburgh Tax Review)
- Ellen P. Aprill, Loyola Law School
- James J. Fishman, Pace University School of Law
- Philip Hackney, Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center
- Terri L. Helge, Texas A&M University School of Law
- Donald B. Tobin, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law & Daniel P. Tokaji, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law
- Moderator: Mr. Marcus S. Owens, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered
Sunday, January 4, 2015
8:30 am – 10:15 am Civil Rights Voter Suppression, the 2014 Elections and Beyond
- Kareem U. Crayton, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Joshua Douglas, University of Kentucky College of Law
- Irving L. Joyner, North Carolina Central University School of Law
- Spencer Overton, The George Washington University Law School
- Daniel P. Tokaji, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law (subbing for Michael E. Waterstone)
- Moderator: Gilda Daniels, University of Baltimore School of Law
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Election Law The Voting Rights Act at 50 (Papers to be published in Election Law Journal)
- Kareem U. Crayton, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Christopher S. Elmendorf, University of California at Davis School of Law
- David J. Gartner, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
- Pamela S. Karlan, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
- Daniel P. Tokaji, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law
- Moderator: Joshua Douglas, University of Kentucky College of Law
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm AALS Hot Topic/Bridge Program – Citizens Invited: Scholars and Professors in the Campaign Finance Wars Citizens Invited: Scholars and Professors in the Campaign Finance Wars (A program selected from a competitive process by the AALS Committee on Special Programs for the Annual Meeting)
- Joshua Douglas, University of Kentucky College of Law
- Joseph R. Fishkin, The University of Texas School of Law
- Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
- Eugene D. Mazo, Wake Forest University School of Law
- Spencer Overton, The George Washington University Law School
- Jamin Ben Raskin, American University, Washington College of Law
- Bradley A. Smith, West Virginia University College of Law
- Zephyr Teachout, Fordham University School of Law
- Franita Tolson, Florida State University College of Law
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Stetson University College of Law
- Moderator: Richard Albert, Boston College Law School
Monday, January 5, 2014
10:30 am – 12:15 pm Constitutional Law Perspectives on Federal Power Under the Reconstruction Amendments (Papers to be published in University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online)
- William D. Araiza, Brooklyn Law School
- Allison Orr Larsen, William & Mary Law School
- Douglas Laycock, University of Virginia School of Law
- Bertrall Ross, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- Moderator: Derek T. Muller, Pepperdine University School of Law
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Law and Interpretation Richard Posner and Stanley Fish: Revisiting Interpretation
- Stanley Fish, Florida International University College of Law
- The Honorable Richard Allen Posner, The University of Chicago, The Law School
- Moderator: Brett Gilbert Scharffs, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
We might as well just take over the whole conference, don’t you think?
Note that the Election Law program is the inaugural one for our new section, ably chaired by Josh Douglas, so it would be great to have a big turnout. Hope to see you there!