Thursday, February 12, 2009

4:00 pm Sponsors Only Event: Guided Historical Tour
6:00 pm Reception: Pound Hall, Harvard Law School
7:00 pm Speaker: TBA

Friday, February 13, 2009

(Unless noted all Friday events at Harvard Law School)

7:00 am Breakfast
7:30 am Women in the Law Meeting
8:30 am Welcome to the Conference
8:45 am Opening Remarks: Dean Elena Kagan, Harvard Law School
9:15 am First Breakout Session (3 options)
  1. Legal History and Religion: Professor Dan Coquillette, Boston College and Harvard Law Schools
  2. Civil Rights and Sentencing: Pace J. McConkie, Director of the Center for Civil Rights Education, Morgan State; Dean Nora Demleitner, Hofstra University School of Law; and Alex Acosta, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida; moderated by Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School
  3. Women and Networking: Gayla Sorenson, Vice-President, Motorola, Inc. and Hannah Smith, Legal Counsel, The Beckett Fund
10:30 am Second Breakout Session (2 options)
  1. National Security Panel: Professor Mary-Rose Papandrea, Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law School and John M. Smith, Associate Counsel to the President
  2. Ethics CLE: Dean James Gordon, BYU Law School
11:45 am Lunch
Breakout Student Lunch: Elder Lance B. Wickman, General Counsel, LDS Church
1:30 pm Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Elder Lance B. Wickman, General Counsel, LDS Church
2:00 pm Legal Issues and the Church: William Atkin, Associate General Counsel, LDS Church
3:00 pm Afternoon Breakout Session (2 options)
  1. Religion and Public Life: Professor Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School; Professor Gregory Kalscheur, Boston College; and Professor Nathan Oman, William and Mary School of Law; moderated by Professor Jay Wexler, Boston University School of Law
  2. Same Sex Marriage and Taxes: Professor Stephen T. Black, Franklin Pierce Law School
4:30 pm Dinner: Boston-themed dinner reception at Ned Devine's (top floor of downtown Boston's famous Quincy Market)
7:00 pm Evening Program at Old South Meeting House: Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University; Dean Kenneth W. Starr, Pepperdine Law School

Saturday, February 14, 2009

(Unless noted all Friday events at Harvard Law School)

7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am First Breakout Session (3 options)
  1. An Insider's View of the Financial Crisis: Randall D. Guynn, Davis Polk & Wardwell
  2. Legal History of the Boston Temple: Grant Bennett, and Ken Harvey, Partner, Holland & Knight
  3. Professor Lisa Grow Sun, BYU Law School
9:45 am Second Breakout Session (2 options)
  1. First Amendment: Judge Thomas B. Griffith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Jon Albano, Bingham McCutchen
  2. Judge Kent A. Jordan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
11:00 am Concluding Speaker: Professor Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School
12:15 pm Lunch
Breakout Student Lunch: Judge Thomas B. Griffith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit