Election Law Symposium

Join The Heritage Foundation and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy for a symposium on election law and the conservative legal movement. This symposium will bring together leading practitioners, academics, and public officials to discuss lawfare, election integrity, and the future of the conservative legal movement in this area. Throughout a day of engaging panels, these experts will dissect the most consequential legal issues shaping this election and the conservative movement.

Date and Time

Thursday, October 3rd

9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location

214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE

Washington, DC 20002

Agenda

Panel I: Election Lawfare in the 21st Century

Taylor Meehan, Partner, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC

David Thompson, Managing Partner, Cooper & Kirk PLLC

John C. Yoo, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law, Co-Faculty Director, Korea Law Center, and Director, Public Law & Policy Program, UC Berkeley School of Law

Joe Nixon, Litigation Counsel, Public Interest Legal Foundation (Moderator)

Panel II: Voting Rights Litigation

John Gore, Partner, Jones Day

The Hon. Edmund LaCour, Alabama Solicitor General

Brad Schlozman, Member, Hinkle Law Firm

The Hon. Eric Dreiband, Partner, Jones Day (Moderator)

Keynote Addresses

The Hon. Chad Readler, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Panel III: Legal Challenges Ahead for the Trump 47 Campaign

Mike Davis, President & Founder, Article III Project

Dan McLaughlin, Senior Writer, National Review Online and Fellow at National Review Institute

Steve Roberts, Partner, Holtzman Vogel

Daniel Jorjani, Chief Operating Officer and Principal Deputy, General Counsel, Citizens United (Moderator)

Panel IV: The Frontier of Campaign Finance

The Hon. Allen Dickerson, Commissioner, Federal Election Commission

Jessica Furst Johnson, Partner, Holtzman Vogel

Robert Kelner, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Logan Knight, Articles Chair, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (Moderator)

Closing Remarks

Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow and Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative, The Heritage Foundation

Registration 

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