The Forum: Spring 2010 Schedule
Jan. 20
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell": How to Influence The Policy
Co-sponsored by the Dean's Workshop Series on LGBT Rights
Joseph Donnelly, Former Captain, U.S. Marine Corps
Rose Saxe, Staff Attorney, ACLU LGBT and AIDS Project
Tobias B. Wolff, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Chair of LGBT Policy for the Obama Campaign
Moderator:
Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Jan. 27
After the Fall: How Should Financial Institutions Be Regulated?
James Sterngold, Financial Correspondent, Bloomberg News
Lewis B. Kaden, Vice Chairman Citigroup Inc.
Eliot Spitzer, Former Governor and Attorney General of New York
Geoffery Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, Director, Center for the Study of Central Banks and Financial Institutions
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
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Feb. 3
Legalizing Drugs: What Would a Regulatory Framework Look Like?
Deborah Smalls, Executive Director and founder of Break the Chains
Sanho Tree, Fellow, Drug Policy Project, Institute for Policy Studies
Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
Oren Bar-Gill, Professor of Law, NYU
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
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Feb. 10
3L and Alumni Judicial Clerkship Orientation
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Location: Furman Hall, 210
Description: The process for applying for clerkships will be discussed and helpful materials, including the NYU Judicial Clerkship Handbook and Appendix, will be distributed. All 3L students and alumni with an interest in clerking should attend this meeting. This event will be videotaped.
Feb. 17
Citizens United v. FEC: Did The Court Get It Right? What Happens Next?
Co-sponsored by the Voting Justice Project and the NYU ACLU
Floyd Abrams, Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law
Monica Youn, Counsel in the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
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Feb. 24
Lessons for Activists: What Law School Didn't Teach Me (Or I Didn't Stop to Learn)
Alina Das, Teaching Fellow and Supervising Attorney, Immigrant Rights Clinic
Robin Steinberg, Executive Director, The Bronx Defenders
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Mar. 3
Do we have too many lawyers (and too much litigation)?
Philip Howard, Author of Life Without Lawyers: Restoring Responsibility in America
Steven Croley, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Burt Neuborne, Professor of Law, New York Univeristy School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
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Mar. 10
Does the United States Incarcerate Too Many People?
Bryan Stevenson, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Rachel Barkow, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D., Senior Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, room 204
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Mar. 17
Spring Break (No Forum)
Mar. 24
How Much Regulation is Too Much: Has the Pendulum Shifted Too Far in the Obama Administration
Sally Katzen, Managing Director, the Podesta Group, and OIRA Administrator during the Clinton Administration
Richard L Revesz, Dean, Lawrence King Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Boyden Gray, Partner, Gray & Schmitz LLP and Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
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Mar. 31
How to Succeed in Law Jobs (While Really Trying)
David Lat, Managing editor, AboveTheLaw.com
Evan Chesler, Presiding Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Carol Kanarek, JD MSW, Career Management for Lawyers
Louise Melling, Director, Center for Liberty, ACLU
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
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April 7
Should You Go Into Politics? (And How)
Anthony Foxx, '96, Mayor of Charlotte, NC
Robert Straniere, '65, LL.M. '69, former Republican New York State Assembly Member, 62nd District
Erin Scharff, '11
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
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April 14
Judging and Personality: What Does a Judges’ Biography Tell Us?
Joan Biskupic, Author and Journalist
Judge Harry Edwards, Senior Circuit Judge, Chief Judge Emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law at The George Washington University and the Legal Affairs editor of The New Republic
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Room 214
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April 21
Same-Sex Marriage: Whether, When and How
Co-sponsored by the Dean's Workshop Series on LGBT Rights
David Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Matt Coles, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU
Paula Ettelbrick, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Room 220
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