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Friday, March 23, 2001

Panel 1: State Election Law and Presidential Selection

View Prof. Hasen's accompanying Powerpoint presentation.

Moderator: Nat Stern (Florida State University)

Richard Briffault (Columbia): Equal Protection and Federalism in Bush v Gore
Richard Hasen (Loyola of Los Angeles): Bush v. Gore and the Future of Equal Protection Law in Elections

Commentators:
    Steve Bickerstaff (Texas)
    Heather Gerken (Harvard)
    Spencer Overton (UC Davis)

Panel 2: What's Left of Federalism in Presidential Elections?

Moderator: Mark Seidenfeld (Florida State University)

Harold Krent (Chicago-Kent): Judging Judging: The Problem of Secondguessing State Courts' Interpretation of State Law in Bush v. Gore
Peter Shane (Pittsburgh): Missing Elements of the Fourteenth Amendment in Bush v. Gore: Procedural Due Process and the Federal Right to Vote for Presidential Electors

Commentators:
    Pamela Karlan (Stanford)
    Robert Pushaw (Missouri-Columbia)
    Charles Tiefer (Baltimore)

Panel 3: What Remains of State Constitutions?

Moderator: Jim Rossi (Florida State University)

James Gardner (Western New England): The Regulatory Role of State Constitutional Structural Constraints in Presidential Elections
Robert Schapiro (Emory): Bush v. Gore and the Threat to State Constitutional Law

Commentators:
    William Marshall (North Carolina)
    Richard Pildes (NYU)
    Thomas Warner (Solicitor General, State of Florida)

Panel 4: The U.S. Constitution and the Electoral College

Moderator: Steven Gey (Florida State University)

Luis Fuentes-Rohwer (Georgetown) & Guy-Uriel Charles (Minnesota): Should We Rethink the Electoral College?
Sanford Levinson & Ernest Young (Texas): Who's Afraid of the Twelfth Amendment? Commentators:
    Elizabeth Garrett (Chicago)
    John O. McGinnis (Cardozo)