The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law is pleased to invite you to two upcoming events on Money in Politics: a book launch and debate on April 28th and a symposium on April 29th.

First, on the evening of Thursday, April 28, we will celebrate the release of Money, Politics and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United, a collection of essays by some of our most renowned constitutional scholars. This is the first book to reassess the jurisprudence of money in politics after Citizens United. Contributors are Mark Alexander, Richard Briffault, Deborah Hellman, Frances Hill, Samuel Issacharoff, Burt Neuborne, Richard Pildes, Robert Post, Geoffrey Stone, Zephyr Teachout, and Monica Youn. The book is being sponsored and published by The Century Foundation and the Brennan Center.

Professors Richard Pildes and Geoffrey Stone will engage in a debate on whether elections warrant special treatment under the First Amendment

Book Launch: Money, Politics and the Constitution

Thursday, April 28, 2011
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Brennan Center for Justice
161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th floor
New York, NY

The following day, Friday, April 29, the Brennan Center is holding an invitation-only, day-long symposium on Accountability After Citizens United at the Greene Space at WNYC in New York City. This symposium will explore the current debate between shareholders and corporate managers over corporate political spending, new strategies to promote accountability through regulatory pressure points, and the constitutional tensions between the rights of associations and the rights of individuals. A list of presenters at the symposium is below. CLE credit will be available.

Symposium: Accountability After Citizens United

Friday, April 29, 2011
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WNYC Greene Space
160 Varick Street (at the 44 Charlton St. entrance)
New York, NY

To RSVP to either the debate or the symposium, please email ali.hassan@nyu.edu or call (646) 292-8342.

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2011 Accountability After Citizens United Symposium presenters will include:   

·        FEC Chair Cynthia Bauerly
·        Professor Robert Jackson (Columbia)
·        Professor John Coates (Harvard)
·        Former Chancellor William T. Allen (Director of NYU Center for Law & Business)
·        Charlie Kolb (President of Committee on Economic Development)
·        Professor Frances Hill (University of Miami)
·        Professor Tobias Wolff (University of Pennsylvania)
·        Professor Daniel Ortiz (University of Virginia)
·        Professor Jennifer Taub (University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management)
·        Professor Ellen Aprill (Loyola)
·        Professor Glenn Magpantay (AALDEF and Hunter College)
·        Holly Schadler (Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold, PLLC)
·        Marc Elias (Perkins Coie)
·        Dale Ho (NAACP LDF)
·        Bruce Freed (Center for Political Accountability)
·        Sanford Lewis (Attorney for NorthStar Asset Management)