District Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy and civil liberties. He worked as special assistant to President Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He writes regularly for leading publications such as Fortune magazine, National Interest, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Times. Bandow speaks frequently at academic conferences, on college campuses, and to business groups. Bandow has been a regular commentator on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. He holds a J.D. from Stanford University.
Partner, Clement & Murphy
A seasoned trial and appellate advocate, Danielle Sassoon represents individuals and corporations in high-stakes white-collar, appellate, and commercial matters. Danielle joined the firm after serving as interim United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, following over eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney. During her time at the SDNY, Danielle handled some of the Office’s most sensitive and consequential cases. As Chief of Appeals for the Criminal Division, Danielle supervised and argued dozens of appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As a leader in the SDNY, Danielle oversaw hundreds of cases, advised on complex legal and strategic issues, and managed over 200 lawyers across the SDNY’s civil and criminal divisions.
As a prosecutor, Danielle handled high-profile investigations and criminal trials, including against Samuel Bankman-Fried, for perpetrating a multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency fraud, and against Lawrence Ray, for racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and other offenses related to his abuse and exploitation of his daughter’s college roommates. As a prosecutor, Danielle was awarded the FBI Director’s Award for Outstanding Criminal Investigation and the Women in Federal Law Enforcement Top Prosecutor Award.
Following law school, Danielle clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Danielle serves as a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Former President & CEO, The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
Eugene B. Meyer, former President and CEO of the Federalist Society, has served as Executive Director, CEO, and/or President of the organization for more than 40 years. He is responsible for shepherding the organization from a small group of law students to a community of 90,000 lawyers, law students, academics, judges, and others interested in the rule of law. The Society now includes a Student Chapter at nearly every ABA-accredited law school in the country and Lawyers Chapters in 220 major cities across the nation. Gene earned his B.A. in history at Yale in 1975 and his M.A. in political science from the London School of Economics in 1976. Gene currently serves on the boards of the U.S. Chess Center, the Holman Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the advisory board of the Adam Smith Society. He holds the title of International Chess Master.
Patricia A. Dore Professor of Administrative Law, Florida State University College of Law
Mark Seidenfeld is the author of influential publications on how administrative law doctrine relates to institutional behavior and agency accountability. Professor Seidenfeld is recognized as one of the country's leading scholars on federal administrative law. He is also author of Microeconomic Predicates to Law and Economics (Anderson Pub. Co., 1996).
He teaches courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Legislation & Regulation, and has taught courses on a variety of areas of federal regulation. Professor Seidenfeld clerked for the Honorable Patricia Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and served as assistant counsel for the New York State Public Service Commission. He currently serves on the Scholarship Awards Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. He holds a B.A. in physics from Reed College and an M.A. in theoretical physics from Brandeis University. He is also a 1983 graduate of Stanford Law School, where he was a senior articles editor for Stanford Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.
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