| Lobbying Symposium - Feb. 23, 2008 |
| http://slpr.stanford.edu/lobbying |
The Stanford Law & Policy Review is excited to host a full-day conference to complement its forthcoming issue on Lobbying & the Law. The event will take place Saturday, February 23, 2008 at Stanford Law School.
EVENT RECORDINGS
Panel 1 | Keynote Address | Panel Three
| SCHEDULE | ||
| 9:45-10:30 | Breakfast | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Panel 1: Lobbying and the law. This panel will address questions like: how is lobbying like lawyering? How do lobbyists do their work, and what aspects of their work are ethically problematic? How has the lobbying industry changed over time, and in particular how has it been affected by past efforts at reform? | |
| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch and keynote address | |
| 1:45 - 2:15 | Dessert and coffee, plus breakout sessions with the day's panelists. | |
| 2:15-3:45 | Panel 2: "Big Pharma" and Public Policy. This panel will address the specific role of lobbying in the pharmaceutical industry. What are/have been the agendas of different parts of the pharmaceutical industry, how have they affected public policy, and have these changes been good or bad from the point of view of the public good? | |
| 4:00-5:30 | Panel 3: Lobbying and democracy. This panel will address the role that lobbying ought to play in a democracy, and what (if any) reforms of the lobbying profession should be enacted. | |
| 5:30-7:00 | Reception | |
| PARTICIPANTS | ||
| Nicholas Allard | Co-chair, Public Policy Dept, Patton Boggs, LLP Former Minority Staff Counsel, Senate Committee on the Judiciary |
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| John H. Barton | Professor, Stanford Law School | |
| Richard Briffault | Professor, Columbia Law School Former Executive Director, Special Commission on Campaign Finance Reform of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York |
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| John de Figueiredo | Professor, Anderson School of Management, University of California - Los Angeles | |
| M. Asif Ismail | Center for Public Integrity, Director of Pharmaceutrical Industry Investigation Co-Author, The Buying of the President 2004 |
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| Abbe Lowell | Chair, Criminal Defense Practice, McDermott Will & Emery Counsel for former lobbyist Jack Abramoff |
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| William Luneburg | Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh Editor, American Bar Association's Lobbying Manual |
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| Henry I. Miller | Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Founding Director, Office of Biotechnology, Food & Drug Administration |
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| Alan Morrison | Co-founder, Public Citizen Former Special Counsel, District of Columbia Attorney General's Office |
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| Peter Overby | NPR correspondent, Power, Money & Influence | |
| Paul Ryan | Associate Legal Counsel, Campaign Legal Center | |
| Thomas Susman | Partner, Ropes & Gray Chair, Ethics Committee, American League of Lobbyists |
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| Zephyr Teachout | Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Duke Law School Director of Internet Organizing, 2004 Dean Presidential Campaign |
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EVENT STAFF
For more information about the event, please contact the Stanford Law & Policy Review at slpreditors@stanford.edu.
| Managing Editors | Molly Claflin | claflin@stanford.edu | |
| Geoff King | geoffrey.king@stanford.edu | ||
| Senior Editors | Jeffrey Kessler | jeffrey.kessler@aya.yale.edu | |
| Oh-Yoon Kim | ohyoonk@stanford.edu | ||
| Rebecca Krauss | rkrauss@stanford.edu |