Contact:
Jim Hellegaard, 404-413-9050
Director of Communications, School of Law
ATLANTA – Georgia State University’s Law Review Symposium will tackle a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that has already had a major impact on this year's mid-term elections: Citizens United v. FEC. The one-day symposium will be held Friday, Nov. 12, at the Law Offices of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP in Atlanta.
In Citizens United, the Court overruled Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and portions of McConnell v. FEC, holding bans on corporate independent campaign expenditures are unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
Specifically, the Georgia State Law Review symposium will focus on how this case reflects the intersection of First Amendment Law, Corporate Law, and Election Law. The symposium itself will feature three 90-minute panel discussions focusing on each of these discreet areas. In addition, we will have a lunch time presentation by Heather Gerken of Yale Law School and a 60-minute panel discussion focusing on the impact of the decision on the Midterm Elections. Other Georgia State experts are available to discuss the topic prior to the Symposium.
Speakers will include:
• Gene Nichol, Director, Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, University of North Carolina
• Richard Briffault, Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation, Columbia Law School
• Jamie Raskin, Director, American University Washington College of Law Program on Law and Government
• Michael Boos, General Counsel, Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation
• Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Larry E. Ribstein, Associate Dean for Research, University of Illinois College of Law
• Richard L. Hasen, William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
• Joel Gora, professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
There is no cost for attendance. Breakfast and lunch will be served. Registration at the event will begin at 8:15 a.m. The symposium starts at 8:45 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. Continuing Legal Education credits are available. For more information and to register, go to http://law.gsu.edu/lawreview/index/symposium.
Published Nov. 4, 2010