The Brennan Center will host this event in Washington on May 8. Here is the schedule:

Breakfast and registration: 8:15 – 8:45 a.m.
I. Welcome: Michael Waldman (Brennan Center for Justice) and Robert Kaiser (Washington Post)
II. Panel One: Is the Small Donor Revolution Hype or Reality? Campaign Finance and Political Engagement
Focusing on data from 2008 election cycle, implications for reforms on contribution limits from new research by Professor Stratmann, and public engagement as part of the goals and practice of both campaign finance and governance.
* Laura MacCleery (Brennan Center for Justice) (moderator)
* Michael Malbin, Data on Small Donors (Campaign Finance Institute, University at Albany SUNY)
* Dr. Thomas Stratmann (George Mason University)
* Rev. Lennox Yearwood (Hip Hop Caucus)
* Andrew Hoppin (Chief Information Officer, New York State Senate)
III. Pre-Luncheon Keynote Presentation: Lawrence Lessig (Change Congress)
IV. Lunch
V. A conversation on the Internet and Campaign Finance
Moderator Micah Sifry (Personal Democracy Forum), Lawrence Lessig (Change Congress), and Adam Bonin (Netroots Nation): A legal framework premised on distinctions between print and broadcast media has struggled to keep up with advances in new media. How can we re-imagine the applicability of campaign finance principles in the age of Internet fundraising, social networking, and digital dissemination of information? Does the Internet provide more opportunities for circumvention, or new tools to expose and combat corruption? How can and should we regulate new media forms in light of the impact of money in politics?
VI. Panel Two: Reconfiguring Reform: Innovations in Campaign Finance Reform
Focusing on implications of small donors for changes in the structure of public financing systems and the questions that are raised.
* Michael Waldman (Brennan Center for Justice) (moderator)
* Fred Wertheimer (Democracy 21)
* Nick Nyhart (Public Campaign)
* Beth Rotman (Director, Connecticut’ Citizens Election Program)
* Richard Briffault (Columbia Law School)
* Bob Bauer (Perkins Coie LLP)
VII. Panel Three: Money, Politics, and the Constitution: Is campaign finance reform on a collision course with the Supreme Court?
Focusing on the explosion of constitutional challenges to campaign finance reform in federal and state courts. Is there tension between the Constitution and the aims and methods of reform?
* Monica Youn (Brennan Center for Justice) (moderator)
* Trevor Potter (Campaign Legal Center, Caplin & Drysdale)
* Allison Hayward (George Mason University School of Law)
* Don Simon (Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry LLP)
* Rick Hasen (Loyola Law School)
VIII. Closing Remarks and Send-Off: Bruce Ackerman (Yale Law School) and actor Sam Waterston
IX. Wine Reception
Crowell & Moring, 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (around the corner from the National Press Club).

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