On October 4, NYLS will host the all-day 2019 Northeast Regional Convening of the American Constitution Society (ACS).
NYLS has a highly active ACS chapter that plans and organizes events throughout the year. The regional convening is co-hosted by NYLS’s chapter and the ACS New York Lawyer Chapter, with several NYLS faculty members playing leading roles on expert panels throughout the day. Find registration details.
Panel Highlights
9:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Keynote address by Dawn L. Smalls, Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP; Member, ACS National Board of Directors
10:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Session 1: Resisting Hate
- Nadia Aziz, Co-Interim Director of the Stop Hate Project, Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law
- Nora Benavidez, Director of U.S. Free Expression Programs, PEN America
- Michael L. Bloch, Counsel, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP
- Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, NYLS; Former President, American Civil Liberties Union
12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.
Session 2: Policing the Police—Enforcing Transparency and Accountability
Presented by the NYLS Racial Justice Project; CLE credit is available.
- Monifa Bandele, Vice President and Chief Partnership & Equity Officer, MomsRising.org; Steering Committee Member, Communities United for Police Reform
- Alvin Bragg, Visiting Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Racial Justice Project, NYLS; former Chief Deputy Attorney General, New York State Office of the Attorney General
- Andrew G. Celli, Jr., Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP
- Julian Clark, Policing Fellow, Policing Project at New York University School of Law
- Christopher Dunn, Legal Director, New York Civil Liberties Union
- Jonathan Darche, Executive Director, New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board
- (Moderator) Rebecca Roiphe, Professor of Law and Co-Dean for Faculty Scholarship, NYLS; former Assistant District Attorney for New York County
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Session 3: 2020—Elections, Gerrymandering, and the Census
- Perry Grossman, Senior Staff Attorney, Voting Rights Project, New York Civil Liberties Union
- Elena Goldstein, Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Rights Bureau, New York State Office of the Attorney General
- Kristen Johnson, Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Susan Lerner, Executive Director, Common Cause New York
3:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Session 4: The Changing Role of the State Attorney General
- Alvin Bragg, Visiting Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Racial Justice Project, NYLS; former Chief Deputy Attorney General, New York State Office of the Attorney General
- Matthew Colangelo, Chief Counsel for Federal Initiatives, New York State Office of the Attorney General
- Lisa F. Grumet, Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Diane Abbey Law Institute for Children and Families, NYLS
- Mayur Saxena, Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Affirmative Civil Rights and Labor Enforcement, New Jersey Office of the Attorney General
4:30 p.m.–5:45 p.m.
Session 5: The Second Amendment and State Efforts in Gun Violence Prevention
- Rebecca Fischer, Executive Director, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
- Eric Ruben, Assistant Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
- Nicholas Suplina, Managing Director for Law and Policy, Everytown for Gun Safety