CONVENTION SCHEDULE Thursday, June 11 1:30–3:30 p.m. Student Retreat ................................................................K&L Gates, 1601 K St, NW 2:00–3:30 p.m. Media and Op-Ed Training ................................................... South American B Room Garrett Epps, Contributing Writer at The Atlantic and Professor of Law at University of Baltimore School of Law 3:00–9:00 p.m. Registration Open .........................................................................Capital Terrace 4:00–5:00 p.m. Speed Networking ........................................................ Congressional/Senate Room 5:30–6:30 p.m. Attendee Welcome Meet-Up ...........................................................Capital Terrace 5:30–6:45 p.m. VIP Reception* ..................................................................South American A/B Room 7:00–9:00 p.m. Gala Dinner ........................................................................... Presidential Ballroom Remarks by ACS President Caroline Fredrickson Presentation of the David Carliner Public Interest Award Keynote Address by Former Attorney General Eric Holder Closing Remarks by ACS Board Chair David Brodsky 9:30–11:00 p.m. Student Chapter Happy Hour ..................................... Black Finn Saloon, 1620 I St, NW Friday, June 12 7:15 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Registration Open .........................................................................Capital Terrace 7:30–8:45 a.m. Judicial Nominations Task Force Breakfast* .......................South American A/B Room 7:45–8:45 a.m. Faculty Advisor Breakfast .......................................................... Statler A/B Room 7:45–8:45 a.m. Next Generation Leaders Breakfast* ..............................................Federal A Room 9:00–9:15 a.m. Keynote Address .................................................................. Presidential Ballroom Representative Hakeem Jeffries * Invitation only 22 • 2015 ACS NATIONAL CONVENTION Friday, June 12 CONTINUED 9:15–10:45 a.m. Plenary Panel ....................................................................... Presidential Ballroom Beyond Ferguson: A Nation’s Struggle with Race and Criminal Justice Since the shooting death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, is pervaded by racial bias? How has the Supreme Court’s MO has gained notoriety for its unjust policing practices. narrowing of Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment However, we can tell similar stories about New York protections impeded our ability to achieve racial justice? City, Cleveland, Baltimore, and any number of American SPEAKERS cities and towns. These stories offer a lesson about Chris Hayes, Host, “All In with Chris Hayes,” MSNBC; racialized inequality, low opportunity, and their intimate Editor-at-Large, The Nation (MODERATOR) ties with the criminal justice system. Understanding Elise Boddie, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School Ferguson and how it came to be sheds light on how we Delroy Burton, Chairman, Washington D.C. Police Union manufacture inequality in communities of color across Hon. Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, the country, the role of law enforcement in the production Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice of that inequality, and how the criminal justice system is Walter Mack, Partner, Doar Rieck Kaley & Mack used to police separate and vastly unequal spaces. What Nick Mosby, Councilman, Seventh District, effect will various reforms recommended in the wake of Baltimore City Council Hon. Shira Scheindlin, U.S. District Court, Ferguson have in a criminal justice system many believe Southern District of New York 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions Still Unequal After All These Years: Continuing Barriers to Workplace Gender Equality ............ Federal A Room While workplace gender equality has improved after actions on paid leave pressure Congress to bring the decades of struggle, there remains a long way to go. nation in line with the rest of the world? Despite passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act SPEAKERS in 2009, women are still paid just 78 cents for every Caroline Fredrickson, President, American dollar paid to white men, and the United States is the Constitution Society (MODERATOR) only developed country that does not provide paid Samuel Bagenstos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, maternity leave. How will the Supreme Court’s decision University of Michigan Law School in Young v. UPS impact the application of the Pregnancy Michael Eastman, Vice President, Public Policy, Discrimination Act going forward? How can barriers Equal Employment Advisory Council to workplace equality, such as the systemic pay gap, be Sarah Fleisch Fink, Senior Policy Counsel for Workplace overcome? Should we look to the states or the federal Programs, National Partnership for Women & Families Maryann Parker, Associate General Counsel, government to institute and enforce policy reforms Service Employees International Union on paid maternity leave and gender and pregnancy Hon. Jenny Yang, Chair, U.S. Equal Employment discrimination laws? Will President Obama’s executive Opportunity Commission After Marriage .................................................................................................... South American A/B Room Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia now of the individual states and that of the United States. But recognize same-sex marriage, and the Supreme Court is what happens “after marriage?” What will be the fate of poised to rule on the constitutionality of the remaining the alternative family structures that were created by state same-sex marriage bans by the end of this term. LGBT couples who sought protections in the absence Whether by judicial or legislative action, a vast majority of of marriage? What will marriage equality mean for anti- LGBT Americans will soon be able to enter into marriages discrimination laws in other contexts? What might be the that are solemnized and sanctioned by the governments unintended consequences of a marriage equality victory? PROGRAM OF EVENTS • 23 Friday, June 12 CONTINUED 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions continued After Marriage continued ........................................................................................ South American A/B Room SPEAKERS Shannon Minter, Legal Director, National Center Courtney Cahill, Donald Hinkle Professor, Florida State for Lesbian Rights University College of Law (MODERATOR) Nancy Polikoff, Professor of Law, American University William Eskridge, John A. Garver Professor Washington College of Law of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School Janson Wu, Executive Director, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders Going it Alone: Presidential Power and the DAPA Debate ....................................................... Federal B Room President Obama’s executive action in late 2014 deferring immigration law different than other areas? What should deportation for the undocumented immigrant parents be the outcome of the challenge to the DAPA program of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (DAPA) pending in federal court in Texas? has been the source of much debate. Critics argue that SPEAKERS the president does not have carte blanche to decide Hon. Vanessa Ruiz, Senior Judge, District of Columbia which laws to enforce, and if he did, the next president Court of Appeals (MODERATOR) might decide to forego enforcement of, for example, the Lucas Guttentag, Senior Counselor, U.S. Citizen and Clean Water Act. Supporters argue that, in addition to Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security its positive policy outcomes, the DAPA program is a David Rivkin, Partner, BakerHostetler legitimate exercise of executive power, especially since Peter Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II enforcement prioritization has to happen all the time, Chair in Law, Ohio State University given limited resources. What is the scope of presidential Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Director of the Center for Immigrants' Rights, power with regard to enforcing statutory law? Is Penn State Dickinson School of Law Skewed Justice: How Money in Judicial Elections Undermines Criminal Justice ...........................Senate Room A recent ACS report, Skewed Justice, found that the these pressures? What role can those who represent current explosion in spending on television attack ads in the criminally accused play in protecting a criminal state supreme court elections has made courts less likely defendant’s due process right to an impartial judge? to rule in favor of defendants in criminal appeals. This SPEAKERS influx of money to judicial elections—due in large part to Erica Hashimoto, Allen Post Professor of Law and the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United—means that Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor, University judges are under increasing pressure to act like politicians of Georgia School of Law (MODERATOR) by avoiding damaging attack ads and burnishing their Hon. Sue Bell Cobb, Former Chief Justice, “tough on crime” bona fides at the expense of real people Alabama Supreme Court facing criminal prosecution. Coupled with structural Tracey George, Professor of Law and Political Science, inequities that critics claim make it difficult for defendants Vanderbilt University David Kopel, to obtain real justice, does money in judicial elections Research Director, Independence Institute; Associate Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; Adjunct threaten the legitimacy of our criminal justice system? Professor, University of Denver Sturm College