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Student Division Events
2005-2006

IBRL Student Division Spring Symposium and Bushrod Moot Court Tournament
Holding the Purse Strings:
Should the Federal Government have Equal Access to Law Schools without
Equal Treatment of Gays & Lesbians in the Military?
February 20, 2006
3:30 - 5:00 pm - Room 120
William & Mary School of Law

This year's symposium, which is titled Holding the Purse Strings: Should the Federal Government have Equal Access to Law Schools without Equal Treatment of Gays & Lesbians in the Military?, will take place on Monday, February 20 , from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Room 120. It will focus on the constitutional issues raised by the Solomon Amendment which allows the Department of Defense to deny federal funding to any educational institution that bars or prevents military recruitment on its campus. The case challenging the constitutionality of the amendment, Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), is currently awaiting decision from the U.S. Supreme Court

The Hon. D. Brooks Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, will serve as moderator for the event. Panelists include Jean-David Barnea, Heller Ehrman; Steven W. Fitschen, National Legal Foundation and Regent University School of Law; José Roberto Juárez, Jr., St. Mary's University Law School and Society of American Law Teachers; Nelson Lund, George Mason University Law School; and Mark Moller, Cato Institute. For more information, please contact Mike Pacella at mcpace@wm.edu.

2006 Bushrod T. Washington Moot Court Tournament -- Final Arguments
Two students will argue the case of Chad East, in his capacity as U.S. Secretary of Defense v. The Peter Minuet University, on Monday, February 20 , from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. in the McGlothlin Courtroom. The case deals with the constitutionality of the "Nathan Amendment," a fictional law that authorizes the Secretary of Defense to deny federal funds to any educational institution that hinders military recruiting, on Spending Clause and First Amendment expressive association grounds. The final round of the competition will be judged by the Hon. D. Brooks Smith and all five panelists. For more information, please contact Mike Pacella at mcpace@wm.edu.

This program is free and open to the public. No reservation required.

Holding the Purse Strings:

Should the Federal Government have Equal Access to Law Schools

without Equal Treatment of Gays & Lesbians in the Military?

Topic:	Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR)
Date:	Monday, February 20, 2006 (President’s Day)
Co-Sponsors:	Military Law Society and Gay & Lesbian Law Association
Schedule:
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.	Bushrod Moot Court Tournament Final Arguments (Courtroom 21)
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.	Break/Refreshments (Lobby)
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.	Announcement of Bushrod Moot Court Tournament Winner (Room 120)
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.	Symposium (Room 120)

Introduction:	Karen Anslinger Chair, Institute of Bill of Rights Law: Student Division William & Mary School of Law
Moderator:	Honorable D. Brooks Smith United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Participants:	Jean-David (J.D.) Barnea Associate, Heller Ehrman LLP – New York
	Steven W. Fitschen President and Executive Director, National Legal Foundation Research Professor of Law, Regent University School of Law
	José Roberto (Beto) Juárez, Jr Professor of Law, St. Mary’s University School of Law Society of American Law Teachers(Past-President)
	Nelson Lund Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and 2nd Amendment, George Mason University School of Law
	Mark Moller Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review

Monday, January 30, 2006
Jessica Arons, Why Roe v. Wade Doesn't Matter Anymore
Ms. Arons is a Legal Policy Associate with the Women's Health Project at the Center for American Progress and a distinguished alumna of William & Mary Law School (Class of 2000). She will discuss the current state of reproductive rights in this country and the potential impact of a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court on those rights in the future.

Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Luncheon speaker, Steve Wermiel, Professor at American Law School, to speak about the extensive schools project they run at American.

Student Division Events
2004-2005

Spring Symposium, February 21, 2005

Moot Court Finalists - Sandness and Gaetz

Bushrod Moot Court Tournament
Finalists :
First Place: Polly Sandness

Second Place: Matt Gaetz

The Institute of Bill of Rights Law: Student Division
Annual Spring Symposium and Bushrod Moot Court Tournament Final Round

Orden v. Perry
and
McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky:
An Analysis of the Ten Commandments Cases

Monday, February 21, 2005
3:30 – 6:00 pm Room 119
William & Mary School of Law

Schedule:
3:30 p.m. Moot Court
Bushrod Tournament finalists will present arguments on whether the First Amendment permits a town to place an engraving of the Ten Commandments outside its courthouse.

4:30 pm Panel Discussion
Panelists will address the role of religious symbols in American society and the Supreme Court's interpretation of First Amendment establishment clause issues.

Participants:
Arlin Adams	Schnader, Harrison Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (ret)
Bobby Scott	Congressman, D-Virginia
Jay Sekulow	American Center for Law and Justice
Nadine Strossen	President of the ACLU New York Law School
Introduction: William Van Alstyne	Lee Professor, William & Mary School of Law
Moderator: Neal Devins	Goodrich Professor of Law, Director of Institute of Bill of Rights Law, and Professor in Government, William & Mary School of Law

Scholarly Luncheon Series:

Friday, October 29 at 12:30 pm
Jay Sekulow, Chief, Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice

One Nation Under God?

Are you interested in issues regarding religious liberty in the United States?

The IBRL:SD is happy to announce our next installment of the Scholarly Luncheon Series featuring Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice.
Mr. Sekulow has appeared before the United States Supreme Court nine times in defense of religious freedom.

Mr. Sekulow has been named one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers" twice by the National Law Journal. He has also been featured on numerous radio talk shows and news programs such as CNN, MSNBC and PBS.

March 14, 2005
Erwin Chemerinsy, Duke Law School

April 1, 2005
Angela Harris, University of California-Berkeley School of Law

Debate: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

2003-2004

February	2004th Annual Institute of Bill of Rights Law Student Division Symposium and First Year Moot Court Competition: 1:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, February 26, 2004, McGlothlin Courtroom National Security vs. Personal Liberty: THE DETAINEES AT GUANTANAMO BAY Institute of Bill of Rights Law Student Division Symposium and Moot Court Competition Featuring a distinguished panel of constitutional scholars and a moot court argument on the application of U.S. Law on foreign detainees. ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, University of Southern California BARBARA OLSHANSKY, Center for Constitutional Rights SCOTT L. SILLIMAN, Duke University School of Law JEFFREY K. WALKER, Institute for International Law and Politics, Georgetown University Moderator: Linda Malone, William & Mary School of Law 1:00 - 5:00 pm - Thursday, February 26, 2004 McGlothlin Courtroom William & Mary School of Law Williamsburg, VA Free and open to the public. Reservations not necessary.
January	FIRST YEARS: An informational meeting about the 200th Annual Institute of Bill of Rights Law First Year Moot Court Competition will be held Thursday, January 22 at 1:00 p.m. in room 127. At the meeting we’ll explain the tournament in more detail, we’ll answer any questions and we’ll give out the competition packet. We encourage you to attend. Argument: National Security vs. Personal Liberty: The Detainees at Guantanamo Bay
October	Luncheon with Mae Ngai. Thursday, October 9. Mae Ngai, University of Chicago; Professor Ngai, a Legal Historian, will talk about immigration law and illegal aliens in this country. Professor Ngai will give a public lecture on the William & Mary main campus later in the day.
October 31,2003	FEC Commissioner Michael Toner. Commissioner Toner will speak on a current Federal Election Commission (FEC) legislative proposal aimed to revamp and modernize the presidential public financing system. In addition to a discussion of the proposal Commission Toner will address why the current system is collapsing and why it should be revitalized.
October 24,2003	Luncheon Professor Jie Cheng, a Fulbright Scholar at Yale and Associate Professor at the School of Law at Tsinghua University, will be discussing: "Chinese Information Dissemination after SARS" Professor Cheng has written extensively on many aspects of law and legal reform in China. She specializes in issues surrounding open government and comparative constitutional law. She is the Secretary-General and Vice Director of the Center for Constitutional Law and Civil Rights at Tsinghua University and one of the founders of Tsinghua's clinical program.

October 9, 2003	Luncheon Visiting Scholar, Professor Mae Ngai Professor Ngai, a legal historian at the University of Chicago, will speak at a lunch for students and faculty. She is the author of a forthcoming book, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press, forthcoming, February 2004), and a recent article, “The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the US, 1921-1965,” Law and History Review 21 (Spring 2003).
	2002-2003
March 17, 2003	Luncheon Neal Devins " SHOULD THERE BE A DRAFT?" Professor Neal Devins will discuss whether we need to bring back the draft to restore our system of checks and balances on warmaking. In particular, Professor Devins will argue that congress has little incentive to check the president--and that an all volunteer army contributes to that. By bringing back the draft, congress will have more incentive to play a role in warmaking--because they will face constituent pressure. This program is co-sponsored by the Military Law Society and the Institute of Bill of Rights Law Student Division.

February 17 2003	IBRL Student Division Symposium "The Future of Affirmative Action". " This conference brings together eminent Constitutional law scholars and policy makers to discuss Grutter v. Bollinger, the Michigan law school case now before the Supreme Court, and to look at whether and how affirmative action might change in the future." Courtroom.

January 22,2003	Brunch Former VA Attorney General Mark Earley Former Virginia attorney general Mark L. Earley, who was the state's top prosecutor from 1997 to 2001, currently leads a nonprofit group devoted to bringing the Gospel to people behind bars. He was a religion major at the College of William and Mary. He served as a state senator from 1987 to 1997 before becoming attorney general. He resigned from that post last June to run against Mark Warner for governor.

October 29, 2002	Lou Fisher. "Authorization of War Against Iraq". LOUIS FISHER is a senior specialist in separation of powers with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. He began work with CRS in 1970 and served as research director of the House Iran-Contra Committee in 1987, writing major sections of the final report.
October 18, 2002	Michael Toner Campaign Finance Reform. Michael E. Toner was nominated to the Federal Election Commission by President George W. Bush on March 4, 2002 and appointed on March 29, 2002. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Toner was Chief Counsel to the Republican National Committee. Mr. Toner joined the RNC in 2001 after serving as General Counsel of the Bush-Cheney Transition and General Counsel of the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential Campaign. Before joining the Bush campaign in Austin, Mr. Toner was Deputy Counsel at the RNC from 1997-1999. Prior to his tenure at the RNC, he served as counsel to the Dole/Kemp Presidential Campaign in 1996.
September 20,2002	Luncheon Eugene Volokh. "Second Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms" Eugene Volokh is a leading 1st and 2nd Amendment Expert, and UCLA Law Professor, Co-sponsored with the Federalist Society
	2001-2002
March 21, 2002	"Should Virginia Suspend the Death Penalty?" Debate on a Moratorium on the Death Penalty in Virginia Davison Douglas, William & Mary School of Law Robert Horan, Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney
February 18, 2002	Annual Student Symposium "Civil Liberties and the Fight Against Terrorism" Panelists: John G. Douglass, University of Richmond Law School Timothy H. Edgar, ACLU Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, US House of Representatives from Virginia Cynthia Ward, William & Mary Law School
January 29, 2002	Paul Miller, Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) At BREAKFAST in the Dean's Conference Room, 9:00 to 10:00 a.m., Commissioner Miller will lead a discussion on "THE DISABILITY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: FROM THE JERRY LEWIS TELETHON TO CASEY MARTIN" -- At LUNCH in the Dean's Conference Room from noon to 1:00 p.m., the topic will be "IS THERE A PINK SLIP IN YOUR GENES? THE EMERGING PROBLEM OF GENETIC DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE" -- Appointed Commissioner in May 1999, Mr. Miller has served on the Commission since October 1994. Prior to his appointment at EEOC, Mr. Miller served as the Deputy Director of the United States Office of Consumer Affairs and the White House liaison to the disability community. Earlier, he served as the Director of Litigation for the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, a non-profit legal services center specializing in disability rights issues. At the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, Mr. Miller litigated all types of disability rights cases, including employment, education, transportation, and access discrimination.
October 8, 2001	Luncheon with visiting scholar, Shirley Welcher. SHIRLEY J. WILCHER is a leading authority on equal opportunity and diversity policy. Her more than twenty years of experience includes service as associate civil rights counsel with the House Education and Labor Committe of the US Congress, as director for state relations and General Counsel with the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and as staff attorney with the National Women's Law Center.
	2000-2001
February 19, 2001	Student Symposium: Racial Profiling. This 12th annual student symposium will examine the legal and policy issues surrounding the use of racial profiling in law enforcement. Panelists Colonel Jerry A. Oliver, Richmond Police Hon. Margaret Spencer, Richmond Circuit Court Hon. Lydia Taylor, Norfolk Circuit Court Robert C "Bobby" Scott, US House of Representatives, D-Va
March 30, 2000	Public Debate on Handgun Control. "Are Gun Manufacturer Tort Suits an Effective and Legitimate Means of Controlling Handgun Violence?" The debaters were Dennis Henigan, Executive Director of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence and Paul Blackman, Legislative Director of the National Rifle Association. Student Matt Frey moderated the debate.
	1999-2000
February 21, 2000	Student Symposium: Religion in Our Schools: A Debate on Freedom. This 11th annual student symposium sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law examined the constitutional issues involved with religion in the public schools. Speakers included Steven Aden, legal counsel of the Rutherford Institute; Steve Fitschen, executive director of the National Legal Foundation; Ellen Johnson, President of American Atheists; and Elliot Mincberg, legal counsel of the People for the American Way. Professor Neal Devins will moderated the program.
November 10, 1999	Student Luncheon. Bud Welch, Co-Founder, Murder Victim's Families for Reconciliation. Welch, whose daughter was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, had lunch with a group of students
	1998-1999
March 19, 1999	Student Symposium: "www.cybersex.firstamendment: Policing Obscenity and Pornography in an Online World." This was the 10th annual student symposium sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law. The symposium examined the problem of pornography on the Internet and the constitutionality of legal efforts to restrict access of minors to such pornography. Speakers included: Bruce Watson ("Enough is Enough"), Bruce Taylor (National Center for Children and Families), Dierdre Mulligan (The Center for Democracy and Technology), Ann Beeson (American Civil Liberties Union), Jonathan Zittrain (Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School). The symposium was broadcast on the internet through the Institute's web site.
	1997-1998
February 1998	Student Symposium: The Juvenile Justice System This 9th annual student symposium sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law considered a variety of legal issues related to the juvenile justice system.
	1996-1998
March 1997	Student Symposium: Gays in the Military This 8th annual student symposium sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law examined the legal and policy issues surrounding the issue of gays and lesbians serving in the armed forces. Particular attention was paid to the Clinton Administration's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

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