Annual Survey of American Law

The Uncertain Landscape of Election Law

The NYU Annual Survey of American Law 2007 symposium took place on February 23, 2007, at Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, in Greenberg Lounge.

Program:

9:00 Registration and Breakfast

9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:45 Panel 1: Campaign Finance Law and the Future of Spending Constraints
Sam Issacharoff (moderator), NYU School of Law
Deborah Goldberg, Brennan Center
Burt Neuborne, NYU School of Law
Laurence Laufer, Genova, Burns & Vernoia

11:15 Coffee Break

11:30 Panel 2: Partisan Redistricting: From Justiciable Claims to Manageable Standards?
Jonathan Nagler (moderator), NYU Department of Politics
Nate Persily, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Richard Pildes, NYU School of Law
Eric Hecker, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP
David Epstein, Columbia University – Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

1:00 Lunch Break

2:15 Panel 3: Voting Access, Integrity, and the Trustworthiness of the Democratic Process
Rebecca Morton (moderator), NYU Department of Politics
Jerry H. Goldfeder, Fordham University School of Law
Stephen Ansolabehere, MIT Political Science Department
Dan Tokaji, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Jenigh Garrett, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

3:45 Closing Remarks