ACLU President to Keynote Public Service Law Conference

REGISTRATION OPENS (Clay Hall)

OPENING ADDRESS (Caplin Auditorium)
Katie Redford '95, Co-founder and Co-director, EarthRights International

CONFERENCE DINNER(Caplin Pavilion)
For panelists, moderators, conference coordinators, and invited faculty and guests.

Dinner Speaker:
Helaine M. Barnett, President, Legal Services Corporation

REGISTRATION (Clay Hall)

BREAKFAST (Bagel Lounge)

POLITICAL LAW: Judicial Election Campaigns: Free Speech, Public Dollars, and the Role of Judges (WB 102)

Panelists:

• Jesse Rutledge, Director of Communications, Justice at Stake
• Roy Schotland, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Judge John M. Tyson, North Carolina Court of Appeals

Moderator:
Lillian BeVier, John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT: The Government's "Fair Pay" Plan for Overtime: How Will Low-Income Workers Be Affected? (WB 102)

Panelists:

• Shulamit Kahn, Associate Professor, Finance and Economics Department, Boston University School of Management
• Baldwin Robertson, Associate, Woodley & McGillivary; Counsel, International Association of Fire Fighters and AFL-CIO's Working America
• Alfred Robinson, Acting Administrator, U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division

Moderator:
J. H. "Rip" Verkerke, Professor of Law; Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor; Director, Program for Employment and Labor Law Studies, University of Virginia School of Law

MENTAL HEALTH LAW: Addressing Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: Evaluating the Success of Mental Health Courts (WB 101)

Panelists:

• Ron Honberg, National Director for Policy and Legal Affairs, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
• Cynthia Power, President, Virginia Organization of Consumers Asserting Leadership (VOCAL)
• George W. Pratt, Executive Director, Norfolk Community Services Board
• Tammy Seltzer, Senior Staff Attorney, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Moderator:
Thomas Hafemeister, Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Director of Legal Studies, Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy

RACE & THE LAW: (Re)Examining Slavery Reparations (WB 104)

Panelists:

• K. Lawrie Balfour, Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia
• Adrienne D. Davis, Reef C. Ivey II Research Professor of Law, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law

Moderator:
Kim Forde-Mazrui, Professor of Law; Thurgood Marshall Research Professor; Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law, University of Virginia School of Law

LUNCH (Bagel Lounge)

WORKSHOPS

NONTRADITIONAL LEGAL CAREERS (WB 103)

Panelists:

• Leon Szeptycki, Eastern Conservation Director and General Counsel, Trout Unlimited
• Linda A. Way-Smith, Director of Employee Benefits and HR Governmental Affairs, University of Virginia
• Debra Wilson, Legal Counsel, National Association of Independent Schools

Moderator:
John Setear, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

WORKING AS A LOBBYIST (WB 127)

Panelists

• Charles R. Duvall, President and Chief Lobbyist, Lindl Corporation
• Matt Owens, Senior Federal Relations Officer, Association of American Universities
• Andrew Rosenberg, Associate, Patton Boggs LLP
• William Signer, Lobbyist, Navigant Consulting, Governmental Affairs Practice

GOVERNMENT LEGAL CAREERS (WB 101)

Panelists:

• Michael Passaportis, Clerk, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Jeff Petrich, Democratic Chief Counsel, House Resources Committee
• Susan Sawtelle, Associate General Counsel, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Moderator:
John Harrison, David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law, Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor, University of Virginia School of Law

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC INTEREST JOBS (WB 105)

Panelists:

• James Faulkner, Judicial Attaché, U.S. Department of Justice, Bogota, Columbia
• Juan Carlos Monge, U.N. High Commission on Human Rights, Columbia
• Gina Vetere, Associate, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary

Moderator:
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Associate Professor of Law and History, Washington University, St. Louis

SERVING THE PUBLIC IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR (WB 129)

Panelists:

• Robert Duncan, Partner, Hogan & Hartson
• Carolyn Grimes, Partner, Lieblich & Grimes, P.C.
• Michael Guaznon, Partner, Clement & Wheatley, P.C.
• Henry McLaughlin, Executive Director, Central Virginia Legal Aid Society

RELIGION & THE LAW: Faith-Based Initiatives: How Do They Work and Do We Even Want Them? (WB 102)

Panelists:

• Richard Katskee, Assistant Legal Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• Melissa Rogers, Visiting Professor of Religion and Public Policy, Wake Forest University Divinity School; Founding Executive Director, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
• Ryan Streeter, Director, Center for Faith- and Community-Based Initiatives, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Moderator:
Richard Schragger, Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: Mountaintop Removal Mining: Energy Strategy or Environmental Tragedy? (WB 101)

Panelists:

• Blair Gardner, Associate, Jackson Kelly PLLC; former Assistant General Counsel, Arch Coal, Inc.
• Joe Lovett, Executive Director, Appalachian Center for the Economy & the Environment
• Ken Ward, Jr., Reporter, The Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette

Moderator:
Jonathan Cannon, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Director, Center for Environmental Studies

HUMAN RIGHTS: Can They Stay? Asylum Law and the Victims of Gender-Based Violence (WB 104)

Panelists:

• Molly Groom, Chief, Refugee and Asylum Law Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• David Martin, Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law, Class of 1963 Research Professor, University of Virginia School of Law
• Karen Musalo, Resident Scholar, University of California, Hastings College of Law; Director, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

Moderator:
Deena Hurwitz, Director, Human Rights Program and International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of Virginia School of Law

FREEDOM OF SPEECH: The Empty Chair: When Reporters Won't Talk (WB 102)

Panelists:

• Lucy Dalglish, Executive Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• John G. Douglass, Professor, University of Richmond School of Law
• Jon Zug, Assistant Commonwealth Attorney, Commonwealth of Virginia

Moderator:
Robert O'Neil, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression

JUVENILE LAW: Father, I Cannot Tell a Lie: Juvenile Capacity for Confession (WB 101)

Panelists:

• Elaine Cassel, Attorney; Chair, ABA Behavioral Sciences Committee; Professor of Law, Concord University School of Law
• Dewey G. Cornell, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Education, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia; Director, University of Virginia Youth Violence Project
• Brad J. Garrett, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Chief Interrogator, Lee Boyd Malvo

Moderator:
Andy Block, Director, JustChildren Program, Legal Aid Justice Center

GOVERNMENT REGULATION: From Golden Handcuffs to Real Handcuffs: Corporate Corruption in the 21st Century (WB 104)

Panelists:

• Stephen M. Byers, Partner, Crowell & Moring, White Collar Defense Practice Group
• Anup Malani, Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Associate Professor, Health Evaluation Sciences Department, University of Virginia Medical School
• Doug Paul, Branch Chief, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union; Professor of Law, New York Law School (Caplin Auditorium)