So sorry I’ll have to miss this:
On Friday, February 16, the Washington and Lee Law Review will host the 2024 Lara D. Gass Symposium, entitled “Voting Rights in a Politically Polarized Era.” This Symposium will explore various issues related to voting rights and election-related litigation in federal and state court, organized around the following four topics: the Future of the Voting Rights Act; Litigating Voting Rights; Remedies for Voting Rights Violations; and Current Issues in Election Administration and Voter Suppression. The keynote speaker for the Symposium is Deuel Ross, Deputy Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., who led the litigation team and successfully argued Allen v. Milligan (2023) before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Confirmed participants in the Symposium include (in alphabetical order):
- Prof. Hank Chambers (Richmond Law)
- Prof. Wilfred Codrington III (Brooklyn Law)
- Prof. Travis Crum (Washington University in St. Louis Law)
- Prof. Gilda Daniels (Baltimore Law)
- Prof. Josh Douglas (Kentucky Law)
- Prof. Rebecca Green (William & Mary Law)
- Prof. Ruth Greenwood (Director, Election Law Clinic, Harvard Law)
- Mr. Ernest Herrera (Western Regional Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund)
- Mr. Caleb Jackson (Counsel, Sen. Laphonza Butler, Senate Judiciary Committee)
- Ms. Danielle Lang (Senior Director, Voting Rights, Campaign Legal Center)
- Ms. Sica Matsuda (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP)
- Ms. Terry Ao Minnis (Vice President of Census and Voting Programs, Asian Americans Advancing Justice)
- Prof. Michael Morley (Florida State Law)
- Prof. Spencer Overton (GW Law)
- Prof. Bertrall Ross (UVA Law)
- Prof. Nicholas Stephanopoulous (Harvard Law)
- Prof. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (Stetson Law)
This event is open to the public and will be held in W&L Law’s Moot Court Room. We’d welcome any members of the election law community who would like to attend. For questions regarding the event, please contact Alexis Smith, the Law Review’s Symposium Editor, at [email protected], or the Symposium’s faculty co-sponsors, Chris Seaman ([email protected]) and Maureen Edobor ([email protected]).