The Power of State Constitutional Rights

Event Details

• Sessions include:

  • A Conversation with Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • LGBTQ+ Rights and State Constitutions
  • Unique Rights in State Constitutions
  • Breakout session: Criminal Sentencing and Protections for Incarcerated People
  • Breakout session: Reproductive Rights
  • Breakout session: Hurdles to Vindicating State Constitutional Rights
  • Federalism and Interstate Conflicts
  • Voting Rights and Democracy
  • Constitutional Amendments and State Conventions
  • Full schedule to be announced

• Speakers

  • Alicia Bannon, Director of Judiciary Program, Brennan Center for Justice
  • Ting Ting Cheng, Director of the ERA Project at the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, NYU School of Law 
  • Zachary Clopton, Interim Dean, Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • Martha Davis, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
  • Akilah Deernose, Executive Director, ACLU of Montana
  • Bridget Fahey, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
  • Marcus Gadson, Associate Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
  • Hon. Caitlin J. Halligan, Associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals
  • Andrew Hammond, Professor of Law, Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
  • Brian Highsmith, Assistant Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
  • Roderick M. Hills Jr., William T. Comfort III Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
  • Michael Kang, Class of 1940 Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • Diana Kasdan, Legal and Policy Director for the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy, UCLA School of Law
  • Hon. Melissa A. Long, Associate Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
  • Sean Morales-Doyle, Director of Voting Rights and Elections Program, Brennan Center for Justice
  • Hon. Allison Riggs, Associate Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
  • Daniel B. Rodriguez, Harold Washington Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law 
  • Anthony Sanders, Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement, Institute for Justice
  • Matthew Segal, Codirector of State Supreme Court Initiative, American Civil Liberties Union
  • Miriam Seifter, Richard E. Johnson Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
  • David Shapiro, Executive Director, MacArthur Justice Center
  • Adam Sopko, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
  • Julia Spiegel, Founder and CEO, GovAct
  • Hon. Jeffrey S. Sutton, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • Deborah Tuerkheimer, Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • Whit Washington, Senior Attorney for the Nonbinary and Transgender Rights Project, Lambda Legal
  • Hon. Elizabeth M. Welch, Associate Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
  • Kathrina Szymborski Wolfkot, Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice
  • Evan Wolfson, Founder and President, Freedom to Marry
  • Quinn Yeargain, 1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy, Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law
  • Additional speakers to be announced