Nate, thank you for taking the initiative to facilitate this conversation.
Have you thought about registering a temporary chat board so that we can interchange in real time, but without the challenge of listening in on the verbal exchange? It would, among other things, create a permanent record. Or, perhaps, use some transcription software to catalogue the call?
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----- Original Message -----
From: nathaniel persily <npersily@law.upenn.edu>
Date: Saturday, June 24, 2006 11:42 am
Subject: FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE TEXAS AND VERMONT CASES
>
> On the day (or days) that the Supreme Court issues its opinions in the
> Texas gerrymandering case and the Vermont campaign finance case, I
> will be moderating a conference call among various professors (and
> others)on this list. Anyone who wants to listen in can do so.
> On the day they release the decision(s), I will send a conference
> call id
> and phone number to this list, and a list of those who will be
> speaking on
> the call. Feel free to forward that email to other lists and other
> interested people. We will begin the conference at 1 PM Eastern time
> on the day each decision comes down. I suspect it will not last more
> than an hour, but perhaps it will go longer.
> I am organizing this in lieu of an academic conference later in the
> summer, with the thinking that much could be gained (by us and various
> media folks who have asked to be on the call) from a discussion
> soon after
> the decisions. If this experiment works (and I recognize its
> possible drawbacks), I thought we might be able to do this again
> in the
> future on other topics.
> Talk to you next week,
> Nate
> --
> Nathaniel Persily
> Professor of Law
> University of Pennsylvania Law School
> 3400 Chestnut Street
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
> (o) 215-898-0167
> npersily@law.upenn.edu
> www.persily.com