On and the Brennan Center for Justice, State Court Report, and the Northwestern University Law Review for a two-day symposium at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law exploring the future of state constitutional rights, including the substantive rights protected by state constitutions, state constitutional amendments, and emerging issues in areas such as LGBTQ+ rights and voting rights. Produced in partnership with State Court Report and Northwestern University Law Review.
See the full biographies of all speakers.
- Alicia Bannon, Director of Judiciary Program, Brennan Center for Justice
- Megan Byrne, Staff Attorney, ACLU Capital Punishment Project
- Ting Ting Cheng, Director of the ERA Project at NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center
- Derek Clinger, Senior Staff Attorney, State Democracy Research Initiative
- Zachary Clopton, Interim Dean, Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Wilfred Codrington, Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law, Co-Director of Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, Cardozo Law School
- Martha Davis, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
- Akilah Deernose, Executive Director, ACLU of Montana
- Bridget Fahey, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
- Lucien Ferguson, Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Wendy Fields, Vice Chair of Common Cause National Governing Board & Senior Principal, Fields Growth Strategies
- Sue Frietsche, Executive Director and Director of Litigation, Women’s Law Project
- Marcus Gadson, Associate Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Michelle Garcia, Deputy Director, New Mexico Legal Aid
- Andrew Hammond, Professor of Law, Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Brian Highsmith, Assistant Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
- Roderick M. Hills Jr., William T. Comfort III Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
- Kara Ingelhart, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Director of the LGBTQ+ Rights Clinic, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Michael Kang, Class of 1940 Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Diana Kasdan, Legal and Policy Director for the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy, UCLA School of Law
- Hon. Melissa A. Long, Associate Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
- Marie Miller, Attorney, Institute for Justice
- Sean Morales-Doyle, Director of Voting Rights and Elections Program, Brennan Center for Justice
- Lalita Moskovitz, Senior Prisoners’ Rights Attorney, ACLU New Mexico
- Samira Nazem, Interim Managing Director, National Center for State Courts
- Rosemary Nidiry, Senior Counsel, Justice Program, Brennan Center for Justice
- Jane Elinor (Jenny) Notz, Illinois Solicitor General
- Hon. Allison Riggs, Associate Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
- Daniel B. Rodriguez, Harold Washington Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Anthony Sanders, Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement, Institute for Justice
- Matthew Segal, Codirector of State Supreme Court Initiative, American Civil Liberties Union
- Miriam Seifter, Richard E. Johnson Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
- David Shapiro, Executive Director, MacArthur Justice Center
- Adam Sopko, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
- Julia Spiegel, Founder and CEO, GovAct
- Hon. Jeffrey S. Sutton, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Karen Thompson, Legal Director of Pregnancy Justice
- Deborah Tuerkheimer, Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Andrew Ward, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
- Whit Washington, Senior Attorney for the Nonbinary and Transgender Rights Project, Lambda Legal
- Hon. Elizabeth M. Welch, Associate Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
- Kathrina Szymborski Wolfkot, Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice
- Evan Wolfson, Founder and President, Freedom to Marry
- Quinn Yeargain, 1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy, Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law