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UPDATE: Registration is Now Open for the Third Education Law & Policy Conference

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WASHINGTON—Registration is now open for the third Education Law & Policy Conference hosted by the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies and The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.

This year’s conference will examine the legal and policy issues facing education in the United States centering on the theme, “A New Civil Rights Movement in Education?”

The conference will take place on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, at The Mayflower Hotel and will feature a full day of programming, including panels, addresses, lunch, and a closing reception.

What: Education Law & Policy Conference

When: Thursday, September 11, 2024

Where: The Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

PANEL TOPICS

Armchair Conversation: The State of Civil Rights on Campus with Ilya Shapiro and Charles C. W. Cooke

Plenary Session 1: Title IX: Gender Identity and So Much More

Plenary Session 2: Race and Education After Students for Fair Admissions

Plenary Session 3: Discussion on the Right: Parental Rights in Education

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS TO DATE

Alison Somin, Senior Legal Fellow, Pacific Legal Foundation

andré douglas pond cummings, Dean and Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School

Ben Gibson, Chair, Florida State Board of Education; Partner, Shutts & Bowen LLP

Cameron T. Norris, Partner, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC

Candice Jackson, Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights & Former Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education

Charles C. W. Cooke, Senior Editor, National Review

Hon. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, U.S. House of Representatives

Ilya Shapiro, Director of Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute

KC Johnson, Professor of History, Brooklyn College

Luke Berg, Deputy Counsel, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty

Mark Chenoweth, President and Chief Legal Officer, New Civil Liberties Alliance

Richard D. Kahlenberg, Director of the American Identity Project, The Progressive Policy Institute; Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University

Scott Schneider, Owner & Founder, Schneider Education & Employment Law PLLC

Hon. Steven Menashi, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Thomas Vaseliou, Associate, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC

Todd J. Clark, Dean & Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School

Vernadette R. Broyles, President & General Counsel, Child & Parental Rights Campaign

William A. Estrada, Senior Counsel, Home School Legal Defense Association

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