Engage Volume 8, Issue 2, May 2007

This online issue features transcripts from many of the panels and speeches at our November 2006 National Lawyers Convention. The transcripts have been edited for clarity, although in a few cases further revisions have been made as befits a written medium. Only the opening remarks follow; panel discussions and question-and-answer sessions have not been reproduced, for reasons of space management. Audio of these speeches and debates can be found HERE.

2006 National Lawyers Convention Issue

WELCOME & OPENING ADDRESS

• Hon. Paul D. Clement, Solicitor General

SHOWCASE PANEL I

• Limited Government and Spreading Democracy: Uneasy Cousins?
  Mr. Francois-Henri Briard, Mr. William Kristol, Mr. Tom G. Palmer, Mr. Kenneth Wollack; Moderator: Hon. A. Raymond Randolph 

ADDRESS

• Hon. Karl Zinsmeister, Domestic Policy Advisor to the President

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Net Neutrality: Battle of the Titans
  Hon. William P. Barr, Mr. Paul Misener, Prof. Christopher S. Yoo; Moderator: Hon. David M. McIntosh 

CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE

• Bringing Terrorists to Justice: Can Criminal Prosecution Work?
  Ms. Jennifer Daskal, Hon. Kenneth M. Karas, Prof. Stephen A. Saltzburg, Hon. Kenneth Wainstein; Moderator: Hon. Lois Haight

ADDRESS

• Hon. John McCain, United States Senate, Arizona

FEDERALISM & SEPARATION OF POWERS

• Executive Power in Wartime
  Prof. Richard A. Epstein, Dr. Roger Pilon, Prof. Geoffrey R. Stone, Prof. John C. Yoo; Moderator: Hon. William H. Pryor, Jr.

ADDRESS

• Hon. Arlen Specter, United States Senate, Pennsylvania

ADDRESS

• Governor Haley Barbour, Mississippi

ADDRESS

• Hon. Michael Chertoff, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY & LEGAL EDUCATION

• ABA Accreditation Standards for Law Schools
  Prof. John S. Baker, Jr., Dean Saul Levmore, Prof. Thomas D. Morgan, Mr. John A. Sebert; Moderator: Prof. Douglas W. Kmiec

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• Does IP Harm or Help Developing Countries?
  Hon. Alex M. Azar, II, Prof. Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Prof. Jerome H. Reichman, Mr. Robert Sherwood; Moderator: Hon. Bruce A. Lehman 

BARBARA K. OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE

• Hon. Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America

SHOWCASE PANEL III

• Are Constitutional Changes Necessary to Limit Government?
  Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook, Prof. William N. Eskridge, Jr., Prof. Daniel H. Lowenstein, Prof. Richard D. Parker; Moderator: Hon. David B. Sentelle

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW & REGULATION

• Agency Preemption: Speak Softly, But Carry A Big Stick?
  Hon. Ronald A. Cass, Prof. Th omas W. Merrill, Prof. Catherine M. Sharkey, Hon. Daniel E. Troy; Moderator: Hon. Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain

CORPORATIONS, SECURITIES & ANTITRUST 

• Regulatory Double-Dipping
  Hon. Paul S. Atkins, Dr. Michael S. Greve, Hon. Deborah Platt Majoras, Hon. Eugene Scalia; Moderator: Hon. Jerry E. Smith

INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL SECURITY LAW 

• Are We Over-Lawyering International Affairs?
  Prof. Phillip C. Bobbitt, Dean John D. Hutson, Prof. John C. Yoo, Dr. Philip D. Zelikow; Moderator: Edwin D. Williamson

ANNUAL CONVENTION LUNCHEON 

• Judicial Independence
  Hon. Carlos T. Bea, Hon. Danny J. Boggs, Hon. Timothy B. Dyk, Hon. Patricia M. Wald; Moderator: Hon. Dennis G. Jacobs

SHOWCASE PANEL IV 

• The Role of Government in Defining Our Culture
  Prof. Hadley P. Arkes, Hon. Walter E. Dellinger, Prof. William N. Eskridge, Jr., Dr. Charles Murray, Mr. Anthony D. Romero, Mrs. Phyllis M. Schlafly; Moderator: Hon. Edwin Meese, III