On March 17, 2023, UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project convened a conference, “Can American Democracy Survive the 2024 Elections?” We had an outstanding set of panels with leaders in law, media, politics, and tech. You can now watch videos of each of the panels, as described below:
Welcome and introduction
Russell Korobkin / Interim Dean and Richard C. Maxwell Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law
Richard L. Hasen / Professor of Law and Political Science; Director, Safeguarding Democracy
Project, UCLA School of Law
Video of Welcome and Introduction:
Panel 1: Election threats: inside and outside
MODERATOR:
John Fortier / Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
PANELISTS:
Jocelyn Benson / Secretary of State, Michigan
Neal Kelley / Registrar of Voters, Orange County, CA (Retired)
Stephen Richer / Recorder, Maricopa County, Arizona
Video of Panel 1:
Panel 2: The role of media and social media
MODERATOR:
Nathaniel Persily / James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
PANELISTS:
Pam Fessler / Editor and Correspondent, NPR News (Retired)
Jack Lerner / Clinical Professor, UC Irvine School of Law
David Kaye / Clinical Professor, UC Irvine School of Law
Brendan Nyhan / James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Department of Government,
Dartmouth College
Video of Panel 2:
Panel 3: The role of tech
MODERATOR:
Elizabeth Howard / Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice
PANELISTS:
Andrew Appel / Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Matt Masterson / Director of Information Integrity, Microsoft
Kim Wyman / Senior Election Security Advisor for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Video of Panel 3:
Lunch and Lunchtime Conversation
Election Denialism and the Future of the Republican Party
Sarah Longwell / President and CEO, Longwell Partners, and Publisher, The Bulwark, in conversation with Richard L. Hasen
Video of Lunchtime conversation:
Panel 4: The role of politics and norms
MODERATOR:
Bruce Cain / Professor of Political Science and Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University
PANELISTS:
Julia Azari / Professor of Political Science, Marquette University
Larry Diamond / William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Stanford University
Norman Ornstein / Senior Fellow Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute
Charles Stewart III / Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Tesler / Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine
Video of Panel 4:
Panel 5: The role of election law
MODERATOR:
Edward B. Foley / Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law;
Director, Election Law, Ohio State University
PANELISTS:
Michael Morley / Sheila M. McDevitt Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Richard H. Pildes / Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law
Bertrall Ross / Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law; Director, Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, University of Virginia School of Law
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / Brennan Center fellow and Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law
Video of Panel 5:
Panel 6: The role of practicing lawyers
MODERATOR:
Emily Rong Zhang / Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
PANELISTS:
Bob Bauer / Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence Co-Director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic, NYU School of Law
Ben Ginsberg / Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution and Lecturer, Stanford Law School
Janai Nelson / President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Nina Perales / Vice President of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Video of Panel 6: