power and its recent effects
A symposium exploring the power of executives at the local, state and federal levels -- and the effects of their power on such current events as the Alito hearings, the hearings on the National Security Agency's (NSA) wiretapping program, the response to Hurricane Katrina and the debate over illegal immigration, among others -- will take place Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25, at the Law School.
The symposium, titled "The Most Dangerous Branch? Mayors, Governors, Presidents and the Rule of Law: A Symposium on Executive Power," is hosted by the Yale Law Journal. It will bring together the nation's leading legal scholars, policymakers and practitioners, including current and former members of the Bush administration and professors who have testified in the Alito and NSA hearings.
"A symposium on this topic could not come at a better time," says C.J. Mahoney, editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal. "We hope this event will break new ground and generate meaningful debate on some of the most important legal and political topics of our time."
Participants will include Brett Kavanaugh, staff secretary to President Bush and D.C. Circuit Court nominee; John Yoo, a law professor at Berkeley and former assistant attorney general to President Bush; Cass Sunstein, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School; Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School; Steven Calabresi, a professor at Northwestern University; Neal Katyal, a professor at Georgetown Law Center and current counsel for Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan before the U.S. Supreme Court; and Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh.
Registration for the symposium is free and includes copies of the papers as well as lunch. To register, send an e-mail to symposium@yalelawjournal.org.
A full conference schedule and information on the speakers is available at www.yalelawjournal.org/symposium. For further information, e-mail director Judy Coleman at judy.coleman@yale.edu.
The Yale Law Journal is a publication devoted to cultivating and disseminating academic scholarship of the highest caliber on significant contemporary legal issues. The journal is published eight times a year.
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