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The Southeastern Symposium A joint program of The Federalist Society Chapters at Emory University School of Law and Georgia State University College of Law. Equality: America's Struggle OCTOBER 10, 2003 6 Hours CLE Credit Available for Georgia Bar Members Keynote Speaker: Lino Graglia Professor Graglia is the A. Dalton Cross Professor in Law at the University of Texas. He is the author of Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Demise of Popular Government; The Supreme Court's Busing Decisions: A Study in Government by the Judiciary; and Disaster by Decree: The Supreme Court's Decision on Race and the Schools. Panels: Equal Opportunity v. Equal Results This panel is being co-sponsored by The National Student Lawyers Guild and the American Constitution Society. Where does this struggle stand in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's rulings in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. Roger Clegg and Neal Katyal, two of the Nation's leading experts on this subject , will debate. Roger Clegg is Vice President and General Counsel at the Center for Equal Opportunity. He co-authored an amicus brief filed in support of Grutter and Gratz in the Supreme Court cases. Mr. Clegg is a contributing editor to the National Review Online. He was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan and Bush Administrations. From 1987-1991, he held the second highest position in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Mr. Clegg is a graduate of Yale Law School. Neal Katyal is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. Prof. Katyal filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court cases on behalf of private law school deans in support of the University of Michigan. He clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer and for Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit. Prof. Katyal served as National Security Advisor to the Deputy Attorney General. He was co-counsel to Vice President Al Gore in Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing Board in 2000 and is currently serving as co-counsel to the Plaintiffs in the California recall election case. Prof. Katyal is a graduate of Yale Law School. Paternalism v. Self-Determination This panel is co-sponsored by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Foundation. Is Feminism merely a paternalistic theory that limits the choices of women? Kay Graglia and Polly Price debate. Kay Graglia is the author of Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism. She is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and was one of the editors of the Columbia Law Review. Prior to becoming a housewife by choice, Mrs. Graglia worked at the Justice Department and clerked on the D.C. Circuit. She is a wife and mother of three children. Polly Price is a professor at Emory University School of Law. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and clerked on the Eighth Circuit. Prof. Price was the U.S. representative in Pretoria, South Africa, at the Equality Law Conference for South African Judges and Magistrates. Prof. Price has been published in the Virginia Law Review, the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities and the American Journal of Legal History. She is the author of Property Rights: Rights and Liberties Under the Law. Liberty v. Equality What is the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas. Eric Segall and Neil Kinkopf will join this debate. Eric Segall is a Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Emory University, and his J.D. from Vanderbilt School of Law, where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif. He clerked for Hon. Charles A. Moye, Jr. in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Georgia, and for the Hon. Albert J. Henderson of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He has worked as an Associate for Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, and served as a Trial Attorney for the Federal Programs Branch Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Neil Kinkopf is the Director of the Center on State Law, Legislation and Policy as well as an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University College of Law. He received his A.B. from Boston College and his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University. Prof. Kinkopf clerked for Judge Richard Suhrheinrich on the 6th Circuit. He served as Domestic Policy Specialist to the Clinton/Gore Campaign and Presidential Transition. He served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General and in the Office of Legal Policy. He was a Senior Fellow in Public Law at Duke University School of Law and Counselor to Senator Joseph Biden for the Impeachment trial of President Clinton. OTHER PARTICIPANTS VALLE DUTCHER is General Counsel for the Southeastern Legal Foundation—an Atlanta-based public interest law firm specializing in constitutional law—where she manages and litigates cases in the District of Columbia and the Southeast. She served as counsel in the 1999 case which challenged the use of statistical sampling in the 2000 census (Glavin v. Clinton). She is a cum laude graduate of Pace University School of Law in New York, where she was an editorial board member of the Environmental Law Review. She clerked in the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court and the Federal District Court for the Southern District Court of New York. JULIE SEAMAN teaches Evidence at Emory University School of Law. Professor Seaman has her B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude) and her J.D. from Harvard (magna cum laude), where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a teaching assistant for the Federal Litigation course. She clerked with federal district court Judge Robert J. Ward.
A cocktail hour will be held in the Hunter Atrium of Emory University School of Law following the panel presentations.
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