2017 National Lawyers Convention Live Stream
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Thank you for joining us online for the 2017 National Lawyers Convention. Below is the schedule of recorded live stream feeds. These and most other sessions will be professionally edited and published over the next several weeks. We hope you will enjoy them as much as we did hosting them.
Opening Address: Hon. Tom Cotton, United States Senate
Showcase Panel I: Administrative Agencies and the Federal Judiciary
Federalism & Separation of Powers: Is Everyone Now for Federalism?
Labor & Employment Law: A View from the Top: DOL, EEOC, and NLRB
Criminal Law: What Should be Done to Address Rising Crime Rates?
Religious Liberties: The Administrative State and Religious Freedom
Showcase Panel II: Congress and the Administrative State
Convention Address: Hon. Scott Pruitt, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Convention Address: Hon. Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney General
Financial Services & E-Commerce: Financial Regulation: The Apotheosis of the Administrative State?
Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture: Mr. Donald F. McGahn, II, White House Counsel
Showcase Panel III: The Executive Branch and the Regulatory State
Administrative Law & Regulation: The Administrative State and Its Discontents
Showcase Panel IV: Administrative Agencies and the Separation of Powers
Special Session: Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
Former Associate Director, Practice Groups, The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
Wes Hodges was the Associate Director of Practice Groups at the Federalist Society. In this role, he curated the FedSoc Blog and worked on the Article One Initiative. Wes studied Economics, Political Science, and Philosophy at Baylor University, where he also served as Student Body President. After graduation, he joined Gray Reed & McGraw, a mid-sized Texas law firm, as their Chief Administrative Officer. Just prior to joining the Federalist Society in June 2017, Wes participated in a residential fellowship hosted by the John Jay Institute in Philadelphia.