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[PAST EVENT] 9th Annual William & Mary Election Law Symposium
February 26, 2015
3:30pm - 5pm
The Election Law Society and the Election Law Program announce the Ninth Annual Election Law Symposium to take place on Thursday, February 26. Featuring prominent election attorneys, voting rights advocates, and a former Texas Solicitor General, the symposium addresses the topic, "Pre-election Litigation: Judicial Influence Before Election Day" and evaluates the current state of pre-election litigation and the unique challenges courts face hearing cases in the run up to elections.
Panelists scheduled to participate include Dale Ho, Director of the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU; Nicole Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel for the Washington, D.C. office of the Brennan Center for Justice; Jonathan Mitchell, former Solicitor General for the Texas Attorney General's Office and current Searle Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Texas Law School; and William Consovoy, Partner at Consovoy McCarthy PLLC.
Panelists scheduled to participate include Dale Ho, Director of the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU; Nicole Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel for the Washington, D.C. office of the Brennan Center for Justice; Jonathan Mitchell, former Solicitor General for the Texas Attorney General's Office and current Searle Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Texas Law School; and William Consovoy, Partner at Consovoy McCarthy PLLC.