3:00–3:30 pm

Welcome from the Yale Law School & the Yale Chapter of the American Constitution Society

Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School & Chair, Faculty Board of the Yale Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society

Harold Hongju Koh, Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Joey Fishkin, President, Yale Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society

Chad Golder, Co-Founder & Co-Chair of the “Constitution in 2020” Conference

Seth Grossman, Co-Founder & Co-Chair of the “Constitution in 2020” Conference

3:30–4:00 pm

Welcome from the National American Constitution Society: The Constitution in the 21st Century Project

Dawn Johnsen, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington & Board of Directors, American Constitution Society

Lisa Brown, Executive Director, American Constitution Society

4:00–5:30 pm

Roundtable: Constitutional Politics in 2020

Melody Barnes, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Jeff Berman, Managing Director, The Berman Group

Cory Booker, President, Newark Now

Neera Tanden, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Center for American Progress

Kenji Yoshino, Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Moderator: Goodwin Liu, Professor of Law, University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall)

6:00–7:30 pm

Opening Dialogue

Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School

Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School

Moderator: Robert Gordon, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School

7:45–9:15 pm

Conference Reception
Student Networking Session

9:30 pm

Student Party

Lily's Pad / 300 York St

Co-sponsored by the NYU, Penn, and Harvard chapters of the American Constitution Society

9:30–10:00 am

Framing the Questions

Gara LaMarche, Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs, Open Society Institute

Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School

10:15–11:45 am

Social and Economic Inequality

William Forbath, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Richard Ford, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Mark Kelman, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Robin West, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Moderator: Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School

12:00–1:00 pm

Dialogue

Guido Calabresi, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Patricia Wald, Former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit & Former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague

Moderator: Paul Gewirtz, Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law, Yale Law School

1:00–2:15 pm

Lunch

2:30–4:00 pm

New Politics

Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Pamela Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School

Burt Neuborne, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Nate Persily, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Moderator: Robert Post, David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School

4:15–5:45 pm

Breakout Sessions

6:00–7:30 pm

Conversation

David Boies, Chairman, Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP

John Podesta, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for American Progress

Theodore Shaw, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Kathleen Sullivan, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean, Stanford Law School

Moderator: Walter Dellinger, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP

7:30–9:00 pm

Dinner

Dining Hall

If you have not pre-registered for dinner, please see the list of New Haven restaurants included in your registration binder for local dining options.

A dinner for students will be available in Room 120.

9:30 pm

“The Progressive Party”

Student party at Donaldson Commons - Yale School of Management, 140 Prospect Street

Please note the location change.

8:30–10:00 am

Liberties and Communities

David Cole, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Rachel Moran, Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law, University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall)

Charles Sabel, Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law, University of California (Boalt Hall)

Moderator: William Eskridge, John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School

10:15–11:45 am

America in the World

Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Vicki Jackson, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Harold Hongju Koh, Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Moderator: Paul Kahn, Robert W. Winner Professor of Law, Yale Law School

12:10–1:30 pm

Lunch: Breakout Sessions

1:45–3:15 pm

Toward Constitutional Reconstruction

Drew Days, Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law, Yale Law School

William Marshall, William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law

Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Jed Rubenfeld, Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Seth Waxman, Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP

Moderator: Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School

3:30–5:15 pm

Constitutional Lawyering and Public Interest Lawyering: Inventing Again

Joshua Civin, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Cyd Fremmer, EdLaw Project

Robert Hoo, Legal Services of Northern California

Tom Jawetz, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs

Lisa Powell, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project

Moderator: Deborah Cantrell, Director, Arthur Liman Program