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[PAST EVENT] 2020 Redistricting: Mapping a New Political Decade
Fifty years past Baker v. Carr, the historic decision enshrining the principle of ?one person one vote,? we remain surprisingly unsettled in our approach to political representation. To wit, even after five cycles of decennial redistricting since the height of the Civil Rights Movement and passage of the historic Voting Rights Act, racial implications of redistricting in this country remain intensely complex and contested. Cases involving redistricting appear before the U.S. Supreme Court with regular frequency. This symposium will explore the most pressing issues facing line drawers in the 2020 redistricting round?from the fate and promise of independent redistricting commissions to racial justice and redistricting to basic principles of political representation and one person one vote. How should states sort political power? What role should the federal government have in policing lines? What is the impact of technological sophistication on the fairness of the redistricting process? What will be the biggest challenges (and opportunities) in the upcoming 2020 round? This symposium seeks to lay a definitive academic foundation for the country?s next stab at the maps.
Friday, February 17
2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Welcoming Remarks
2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Panel One: Legacy of Baker v. Carr
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Panel Two: State Redistricting Reform
5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Panel Three: Minority Rights and Line Drawing
Saturday, February 18
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Panel Four: The Partisanship Problem
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Panel Five: The Supreme Court and 2020 Round
11:45 a.m. Closing Remarks
Scheduled panelists include:
Bruce Cain & Emily Zhang (Stanford)
Wendy K. Tam Cho (Illinois)
Guy-Uriel Charles (Duke)
Chris Elmendorf (UC Davis)
Joseph Fishkin (TX)
Edward Foley (Ohio State)
Rebecca Green (William & Mary)
Richard Hasen (UCI)
Dale Ho (ACLU)
Michael Kang (Emory)
Pamela Karlan (Stanford)
Ellen Katz (Michigan)
Justin Levitt (Loyola)
Rep. Jamin Raskin D-MD
Nick Stephanopoulos (Chicago)
Daniel Tokaji (Ohio State)
Franita Tolson (Florida State)
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