Partial List of Recent Speakers and Panelists in Programs
Sponsored by the
Program on Law and Government
Jack Balkin, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Derrick Bell, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Charles Bierbower, CNN Supreme Court correspondent
Joan Biskupic, Reporter, The Washington Post
Marshall Breger, Professor of Law, Catholic University of America School of Law
Colonel James R. Callard, United States Air Force, Department of Military Strategy and Operations, National War College Professor
Erwin Chemerinsky, Professor of Law, University of Southern California Law School
Roger Clegg, Vice President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity
Jan Crawford Greenburg, Correspondent, Chicago Tribune
John Culver, former Senator from Iowa and partner, Arent Fox
Joseph Curran, Attorney General of Maryland
Lloyd Cutler, former Counsel to Presidents Clinton and Carter and founding partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Philip Crowley, former deputy White House press secretary
Neal Devins, Professor of Law, William and Mary Marshall-Whythe School of Law
Richard Dieter, Executive Director, The Death Penalty Information Center
Leonard Downie, Jr., executive editor, the Washington Post
Cynthia Farina, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Eugene Fidell, President, National Institute for Military Justice, and Partner, Feldesman, Tucker, Liefer, Fidell & Banks
Louis Fisher, Senior Specialist on the Separation of Powers, Congressional Research Service
Paul L. Friedman, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor, The New Yorker
Philip J. Hirschkop, who argued Loving v. Virginia before the Supreme Court
Christopher Hitchens, Washington Correspondent for Vanity Fair and frequent contributor to other magazines
Eleanor Holmes Norton, U.S. Representative for the District of Columbia
Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., Founder and President, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Inc.
Jesse Jackson, Jr., U.S. Representative for the Second District of Illinois
Joe Johns, NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent
Nathaniel R. Jones, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit (retired)
Damon J. Keith, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
Sanford Levinson, Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School
Edwin Meese, former Attorney General of the United States
Judith Miller, Williams and Connolly, former Pentagon General Counsel
Ralph Nader, leading consumer advocate
Jennifer Newstead, former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy
Richard Parker, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Mark Plotkin, WTOP political analyst
Trevor Potter, former Chair and Commissioner of Federal Election Commission and partner at Caplin & Drysdale
Craig Quigley, former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Joshua Rosenkranz, former Executive Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University
Bernard Sanders, Representative in U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont
Bruce Sanford, Baker & Hostetler, First Amendment litigator
Virginia Sloan, President, The Constitution Project
Inez Smith Reid, Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Geoffrey Stone, Professor of Law and former Dean, University of Chicago Law School
David Strom, General Counsel of the American Federation of Teachers
Robert Suro, national staff of The Washington Post
Patricia Wald, former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and former Judge of the International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia
William Webster, former Director of the FBI and the CIA
Ronald Weich, former Special Counsel to U.S. Sentencing Commission and partner, Zuckerman, Spaeder
Paul Weyrich, President of Free Congress Research & Education Foundation
Anthony Williams, Mayor of the District of Columbia
Judith Winston, former Undersecretary and General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Education