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Constitutional Interpretation and Change: A Conference on Jack Balkin’s Living Originalism
Yale Law School
April 27 - 28, 2012
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Panel 1| Panel 2 | Panel 3 | Panel 4 | Panel 5 | Panel 6 | Panel 7
This conference is sponsored by the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
On April 27 and 28, 2012, Yale Law School will host a conference on constitutional interpretation and change in conjunction with the publication of Professor Jack Balkin’s book, Living Originalism (Harvard University Press 2011).
Living Originalism offers a theory of constitutional interpretation that is both faithful to the Constitution’s original meaning and consistent with a living Constitution; it argues that the best versions of originalism and living constitutionalism are compatible rather than opposed. The book also explains how legitimate constitutional change occurs in the American constitutional system through the efforts of the political branches, political parties, social movements, and the institutions of civil society. More Here
"Democracy, Technology, and the FCC – A View from the Trenches."
Ed Lazarus YLS ‘87, former FCC Chief of Staff, writer, and attorney
Yale Law School
Thursday, April 19
11:00 a.m.
Room 120
Until February 2012, Mr. Lazarus served as Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski. In that capacity, he oversaw policy development and implementation, strategic planning, communications, legislative and intergovernmental affairs, and agency management. During Mr. Lazarus’s tenure, the FCC produced the first National Broadband Plan, reformed the $9 billion program aimed at universalizing access to communications services, adopted rules to preserve the open nature of the Internet, obtained substantial new authority from Congress to reallocate spectrum to support wireless broadband networks, and was named the most improved agency in government.
BIO:
Mr. Lazarus received his B.A. summa cum laude in 1981 and his J.D. in 1987 from Yale University, where he was note editor of the Yale Law Journal. After receiving his law degree, he served as a law clerk to the honorable William A. Norris on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and thereafter to Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Prior to joining the FCC, Mr. Lazarus divided his time between law practice, writing and teaching. From 2000-2009, Mr. Lazarus practiced law at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he founded the firm’s appellate practice, chaired the national litigation steering committee, and was elected to the management committee. His practice at Akin Gump, focused on appellate litigation and legal strategy, and he handled matters ranging from administrative law to intellectual property, bankruptcy, constitutional law and federal Indian law. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Lazarus served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, where he was a member of the Criminal Appeals Section.
Mr. Lazarus is the author of two highly acclaimed books: Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present and Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court. His writing has also appeared in publications including The Atlantic Monthly, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune. Among dozens of television appearances, Mr. Lazarus was a guest on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Mr. Lazarus was the recipient of a fellowship to Yale Law School and named the first Harry A. Blackmun fellow at the Aspen Institute. In addition to frequent lecturing, he has taught federal Indian law at the University of California, Davis, and constitutional law at the Cardozo School of Law and Loyola Law School. Mr. Lazarus has also served on several boards of directors, including the board of directors of Public Counsel, the nation’s largest public interest law firm.
First Amendment Issues in Regulating Reproduction
Friday, April 13, 2012
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Location: Room 129
Lunch will be provided
Please join the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at the ISP for a symposium that will bring together pro-choice litigators, academics, and city attorneys to examine First Amendment limitations on the state's ability to compel speech about reproductive health services. Compelled speech laws range from city ordinances that compel anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers to post signs disclosing what services they provide and whether they have medical professionals on staff, to laws requiring abortion providers to give patients information sometimes false -- designed to encourage them to carry their pregnancies to term, to laws that require abortion providers to perform, display, and describe the results of an ultrasound of the fetus. More here ...
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act panel: What's the Future of Children's Online Privacy?
Monday, April 9, 2012
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Room 120
Yale Law School
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The Federal Trade Commission is currently reviewing COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the law that requires web sites to get parents' permission before collecting personal data about kids under the age of 13. This panel will address where COPPA should go next. Should the law be strengthened to shield kids from direct marketing online? Or has the law outlived its purpose?
Panelists:
Emily Bazelon, Senior Editor at Slate, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Lecturer in Law, and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School
Danah Boyd, Assistant Professor at Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. Co-author of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Mary Engle, Associate Director for Advertising Practices, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Elizabeth K. Englander, Professor of Psychology at Bridgewater State University (MA)
Global Censorship Conference
Yale Law School
March 30 - April 1, 2012
Brought to you by the Thomson Reuters Initiative, and the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression
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Friday: Panel A | Panel B
Saturday: Panel 1 | Panel 2 | Panel 3 | Panel 4
Sunday: Panel 5 | Panel 6
Censorship has long been a means to silence “harmful speech.” What governments consider to be “harmful” has varied across time and regime. However, whether it's the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts or the more overt uses of force such as in Tiananmen Square, governments have shown time and time again that they are capable of deploying whatever means necessary to eliminate so called “harmful speech.”
The ubiquity of the Internet has added an additional layer of complexity to issues of government censorship... More Here
Movie Screening
PAGE ONE: Inside the New York Times
Yale Law School
March 21, 2012
6:00 PM
Room 127
Brought to you by the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School welcome you to join us for a showing of Page One: Inside the New York Times on Wednesday March 21.
Q&A to follow movie
Directed by Andrew Rossi and Produced and Written by Kate Novak and Andrew Rossi
Data Journalism: New Tools and New Challenges for Accessing Information
Yale Law School
March 9, 2012
9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Room 122
Register Here
The production of news increasingly involves the processing, analysis, and presentation of data. While governments and other organizations have made more data publicly available, newsrooms have been adding new tools and expertise to manage the flow of information. Two panel discussions with journalists, computer scientists, and media researchers will explore the role of data in journalism and the effects of using data to make information public. Discussions will address topics like the various forms data journalism takes, the role news organizations play in mediating and curating data, and how data journalism interacts with issues like freedom of information, open government and privacy. more...
Interrogation After 9/11, Censorship, and Journalism
Yale Law School
February 28, 2012
Brought to you by the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression
Panelists:
• Daniel Freedman (Director of Strategy and Policy Analysis of The Soufan Group; co-author of "The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al Qaeda")
• Ali Soufan (former FBI Supervisory Agent; co-author of "The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al Qaeda")
• Andrew Weissmann (General Counsel, FBI)
• Charles Savage (Washington correspondent, New York Times)
• Asha Rangappa (Associate Dean, Yale Law School)
Get Scanned, Get Canned: Deception Detection and Neuroscience Technology Outside the Courtroom
Yale Law School
February 24, 2012
Room 120
2:00- 4:00 pm
Deception-detection technology based on recent developments in neuroscience is here! Several companies offer neuroscience-based lie detectors to potential clients for use in both courtroom and non- courtroom settings, promoting their services as superior to polygraph and other more dated technologies. However some legal scholars, ethicists, and neuroscientists have questioned both the effectiveness and desirability of using neuroscience-based methods to detect deception, and those methods have not been widely accepted in court...more here
Gene Patents: Advancing Medicine or Capturing Humanity?
Yale Law School
February 14, 2012
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Last year, the Federal Circuit ruled that the isolated genes for breast cancer were patentable subject matter. Women having the genes face a risk of 50-80% of developing breast cancer, versus an average population risk of 12-13%, as well as a heightened risk of developing ovarian cancer. Now the ACLU is asking the Supreme Court to hear this controversial case and address whether human genes should be patentable. Is isolated DNA a "product of nature" or a "man-made invention?" Do gene patents on balance promote innovation or harm it?... more here
FOIA Boot Camp
February 6, 2012
Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic
Speakers will include Harry Hammitt (Federal FOIA Expert and Editor of Access Reports) and Colleen Murphy (Executive Director and General Counsel of the CT Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC)).
Kauffman Roundtable on Patent Reform & Innovation
Yale Law School
November 7, 2011
Morning Session: Reflections on Legislative Reform
The America Invents Act was the culmination of years of efforts to reform the laws governing patent practice. This discussion will seek to identify the issues and conflicts that remain unsettled after the passage for the Act, and to consider where the next steps will lead. What challenges lie ahead in ensuring that the patent system changes for the better? How should aspects of the Act be implemented, and should further legislative reform be considered?
Afternoon Session: Innovations in Patent Practice
Not everyone has pinned their hopes on legislative reform. This session will consider some of the private innovations that have emerged in response to faults in the patent system. How successful have these projects been, and what problems do they continue to face? How much overlap is there between private reform efforts, and what are the limits of each?
