Thursday, November 14
9:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
Grand Ballroom
Welcome and Opening Address
- Hon. John Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, U.S. Department of State
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Grand Ballroom
Showcase Panel I: The President v. Congress: Who Has the Upper Hand in Foreign Affairs and National Security?
- Hon. Walter Dellinger, O'Melveny & Myers and former U.S. Solicitor General
- Hon. Frank Easterbrook, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
- Mr. Louis Fisher, Library of Congress
- Prof. Robert Turner, University of Virginia Center for National Security Law
- Mr. John Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice
- Hon. Timothy Flanigan, Deputy Counsel to the President (Moderator)
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Grand Ballroom
Address
- Hon. Elaine L. Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Grand Ballroom
Civil Rights: Privacy in the Post-September 11 World
- Hon. Viet Dinh, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice
- Prof. Lino A. Graglia, The University of Texas School of Law
- Mr. Robert Levy, Cato Institute
- Mr. Barry Steinhardt, American Civil Liberties Union
- Hon. George Terwilliger, White & Case and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General
- Hon. Edith Brown Clement, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit (Moderator)
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Cabinet Room
Labor & Employment Law: The Fair Labor Standards Act: Keeping Time with the 21st Century?
- Ms. Maria Echaveste, Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc.
- Ms. Deborah Greenfield, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO
- Hon. William Kilberg, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and former Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor
- Hon. Tammy McCutchen, Administrator, Wage & Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor
- Ms. Annie White, Labor Counsel, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
- Mrs. Elizabeth Dorminey, Wimberly & Lawson (Moderator)
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
East Room
Litigation Group: Lessons Learned from Asbestos Litigation
- Mr. Fred Baron, Baron & Budd
- Mr. Richard Faulk, Gardere Wynne Sewell
- Mr. Steven Hantler, Associate General Counsel, DaimlerChrysler
- Mr. Richard Scruggs, Scruggs Law Firm
- Mr. Mark Behrens, Shook, Hardy & Bacon (Moderator)
3:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
East Room
Address
- Commissioner Paul Atkins, Securities and Exchange Commission
3:50 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.
East Room
Professional Responsibility: At the Bar and in the Boardroom: The Ethics of Corporate Lawyering
- Mr. Charles Davidow, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
- Prof. Susan Koniak, Boston University Law School
- Prof. Thomas Morgan, George Washington University Law School
- Hon. Eileen O'Connor, U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice (Moderator)
3:50 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.
State Room
Telecommunications: Privacy, Telecommunications, and Technology: Does Emerging Technology Force New Privacy Considerations?
- Hon. Kathleen Abernathy, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
- Mr. Stewart Baker, Steptoe & Johnson
- Mr. Jerry Berman, Executive Director, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Mr. Reid Alan Cox, Asst GC of Center for Individual Freedom
- Mr. James Harper, Editor, privacilla.org and Adjunct Fellow, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
- Hon. Stephen Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit (Moderator)
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Grand Ballroom
Twentieth Anniversary Lawyers Convention Gala
- Hon. Spencer Abraham, U.S. Secretary of Energy and Co-Founder, The Federalist Society
- Hon. John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General
- Hon. Robert Bork, Co-Chairman, Federalist Society Board of Visitors
- Hon. Gale Norton, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
- Hon. Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
- Hon. Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court
Friday, November 15
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Grand Ballroom
Address
- Mr. John Fund, The Wall Street Journal
- Prof. Jamin Raskin, American University School of Law (Commentator)
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Grand Ballroom
Showcase Panel II: Law Enforcement Post 9/11: Balancing Civil Liberties and Public Safety
- Prof. John Baker, Louisiana State University Law School
- Hon. William Barr, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Verizon Communications
- Hon. Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- Prof. Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School
- Prof. Nadine Strossen, ACLU President and New York Law School
- Hon. Lois Haight, Superior Court of California (Moderator)
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Grand Ballroom
Address
- Hon. Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. State Department
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
East Room
Administrative Law and Regulation: Confidentiality and Deliberations in the Executive Branch: An Exchange on Presidential Prerogative
- Mr. Shannen Coffin, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- Hon. C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and former White House Counsel
- Mr. Joseph Guerra, Sidley & Austin
- Mr. David Vladeck, Director, Public Citizen Litigation Group
- Hon. Jerry Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit (Moderator)
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Grand Ballroom
Corporations, Securities and Antitrust: Competition and Regulatory Federalism
- Hon. Timothy Muris, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
- Mr. R. Hewitt Pate, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- Hon. Diarmuid O'Scannlain, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit (Moderator)
3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Grand Ballroom
Environmental Law and Property Rights: National Security and Energy Policy: Are Environmental Regulations Creating a Dependency on Foreign Nations?
- Mr. Marlo Lewis, Jr., Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Hon. Tom Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Environment Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- Hon. Lois Schiffer, Baach, Robinson & Lewis
- Hon. Lee Liberman Otis, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Energy (Moderator)
3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
East Room
Financial Services and Electronic Commerce: The USA PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security, and the Financial Services Industry
- Hon. David Aufhauser, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Treasury
- Mr. Andrew Cochran, House Financial Services Committee
- Mr. John Pickering, Balch & Bingham
- Mr. James Rockett, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enerson
- Hon. Mary Beth Buchanan, U.S. Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania
3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Cabinet Room
Intellectual Property: Protecting Drug Patents: Challenges and Opportunities
- Mr. Gregory Glover, Partner, Ropes & Gray
- Prof. Scott Kieff, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
- Mr. Douglas Nelson, CropLife America
- Hon. Randall Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- Hon. Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit (Moderator)
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
D.A.R. Constitution Hall
Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture
- Hon. Kenneth Starr, Kirkland & Ellis and former U.S. Solicitor General
- Mrs. Barbara Comstock, Director of Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice (Introduction)
Saturday, November 16
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
State Room
Showcase Panel III: Fighting Fairly: The Laws of Armed Conflict
- Captain Jane Dalton, Legal Counsel to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Prof. John Norton Moore, University of Virginia Center for National Security Law
- Mr. Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
- Prof. Ruth Wedgwood, Yale Law School
- Lieutenant Colonel Maritza Ryan, U.S. Military Academy, West Point (Moderator)
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
East Room
Free Speech and Election Law Group: Arguing the Slippery Slope
- Hon. A. Raymond Randolph, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
- Hon. Daniel Troy, Chief Counsel, Food & Drug Administration
- Prof. Jonathan Turley, The George Washinton University Law School
- Prof. Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law School
- Hon. Timothy Dyk, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (Moderator)
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
State Room
Religious Liberties Group: Religion, the Law, and the Wall: Recent Developments
- Hon. Ralph Boyd, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- Prof. Robert George, Princeton University
- Prof. Kent Greenawalt, Columbia Law School
- Hon. Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
- Hon. Edith Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit (Moderator)
12:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Grand Ballroom
Convention Luncheon
- Hon. Laurence Silberman, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
State Room
Showcase Roundtable IV: Whither Federalism? The Impact of Globalization and the War on Terror
- Dean Ron Cass, Boston University School of Law
- Prof. John McGinnis, Northwestern University School of Law
- Hon. Randy Moss, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and former U.S. Assistant Attorney General
- Hon. William Pryor, Alabama Attorney General
- Hon. Ken Wainstein, General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Mr. Ronald Weich, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- Hon. Richard Willard, Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division
- Hon. Alex Azar, General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services (Moderator)