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  Election 2020: The Challenge, The Law, and the Path Ahead

  Michelle Adams, Deborah Pearlstein, Rick Hasen, Janai Nelson, and Daniel Tokaji

  Join us in hearing from a panel of nationally known election law experts about the latest developments in a busy season of election litigation and the many challenges surrounding the 2020 vote.

  SPEAKERS

  Rick Hasen Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science,

  University of California, Irvine

  Janai Nelson

  Associate Director-Counsel,

  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)

  Daniel Tokaji

  Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law,

  University of Wisconsin Law School

  MODERATORS

  Michelle Adams

  Professor of Law and Co-Director, Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, Cardozo Law School

  Deborah Pearlstein

  Professor of Law and Co-Director, Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, Cardozo Law School

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  Environmental Affirmative Rights in the 21st Century

  Michael Herz, Martha Davis, James R. May, Erin Ryan, Christopher Serkin, and Cardozo Law Review

  While the Framers wrote the Constitution to avoid government overreach, it is fairly certain they did not anticipate climate change and its drastic effects on living conditions. As such, this panel will discuss the different circumstances in which advocates and scholars have argued for mandated government protection of the environment.

  Moderator: Michael Herz, Arthur Kaplan Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

  Panelists:

  • Martha Davis: Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law;
  • James R. May: Distinguished Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School;
  • Erin Ryan: Elizabeth C. and Clyde W. Atkinson Professor of Law, Florida State University; and
  • Christopher Serkin: Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Vanderbilt Law School.

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  Understanding and Interpreting Affirmative Rights: The U.S. Constitution and Beyond

  Michael Pollack, Michel Rosenfeld, Emily Zackin, and Cardozo Law Review

  This panel will focus on outside sources, such as state and foreign constitutions, in comparison with the US Constitution. Panelists will discuss the history of these documents as well as ethical and moral philosophy to articulate new visions and avenues of accessing affirmative rights in the US.

  Moderator: Michael Pollack, Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

  Panelists:

  • Michel Rosenfeld: University Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy and Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; and
  • Emily Zackin: Assistant Professor at the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

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  Sources of Affirmative Rights

  Alexander A. Reinert, Smita Narula, Cynthia Soohoo, Eric Tars, Joshua Weishart, and Cardozo Law Review

  Americans look to the U.S. Constitution as the source of all rights, but the document only affirms negative rights. Panelists will discuss specific areas of rights deemed “fundamental” by society and the international community, and how the US Constitution’s negative framing intersects with such societal needs.

  Moderator: Alexander A. Reinert, Max Freund Professor of Litigation & Advocacy, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

  Panelists:

  • Smita Narula: Haub Distinguished Professor of International Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University;
  • Cynthia Soohoo: Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (formerly named International Women’s Human Rights Clinic) at the City of New York School of Law;
  • Eric Tars: Legal Director, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty; and
  • Joshua Weishart: Professor of Law and Policy, West Virginia University, joint appointment in the College of Law and the John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics.