Symposium Schedule:

8:30 am       Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am       Opening Remarks

9:05 am       Corporate Advantage? SCOTUS, the Defense Bar, and Rules that Keep

                    Plaintiffs Out of Court (1.5 credit hours)

                    Robert Heim, Partner, Dechert

                    Sean Farhang, Professor at the School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

                    Allison Zieve, Director, Public Citizen Litigation Group

10:30 am     Democracy for Sale: Global Corruption, Elite Influence, and U.S. Foreign

                    Policy (1.5) credit hours

                    Cole Bockenfeld, Deputy Director for Policy, Project on Middle East Democracy

                    Peter Harrell, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security

                    Farahnaz Ispahani, Author and Former Member, Pakistan National Assembly

12:00 pm     Keynote Speaker & Lunch Discussion (.5 credit hours):

                    Brenda Wright, Vice President, Policy and Legal Strategies, Demos

1:00 pm       Voices at the Table: Working Together to Improve Education for Students

                    in Philadelphia (1.5 credit hours)

                    Tamara Anderson, Parent, Educational Policy writer, and Organizer

                    Marjorie G. Neff, Chairwoman, School Reform Commission, School District of

                    Philadelphia

                    Mike Wang, Executive Director, Philadelphia School Advocacy Partners

2:30 pm       The Cost of Economic Opportunity for Underserved Communities (1.0

                    ethics/.5 substantive)

                    Dorcas Gilmore, Practitioner in Residence, American University

                    David Oh, Councilman, City Council of Philadelphia

                    Alyssa Thomas, Manager, Kiva Zip Philadelphia

4:00 pm       A Closing Closing Conversation on Criminal Justice (1.0 ethics)

                    Paul Heaton, Senior Fellow and Academic Director, Quattrone Center for the

                    Fair Administration of Justice

                    David Rudovsky, Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Law School

5:00 pm       Reception 

 

 

This program has been approved for 7.5 (5.5 substantive/2.0 ethics) hours of CLE credits for Pennsylvania lawyers. CLE credit may be available in other jurisdictions as well. Attendees seeking CLE credit should bring separate payment in the amount of $150.00 ($75.00 public interest/non-profit attorneys) cash or check made payable to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.