8:15 – 8:45 Registration- Room 105 Law Building
8:45 – 9:00 Introduction, Overview, and Welcoming Remarks
- David A. Carrillo, Executive Director California Constitution Center, Berkeley Law
- Gillian Lester, Dean and Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
9:00 – 9:45 Presentation by Hon. Joseph R. Grodin – Public Sector Collective Bargaining
- Hon. Joseph R. Grodin, Associate Justice, California Supreme Court (Retired)
9:45 – 10:45 Contracting and Privatization
- Manuela Albuquerque, Partner, Burke Williams & Sorensen, LLP
- Michelle Wilde Anderson, Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Employee Speech, Privacy, and the Internet
- Chris Hoofnagle, Lecturer in Residence, Berkeley Law
- Danny Y. Chou, Assistant County Counsel, Santa Clara County Counsel’s Office
- Calvin R. House, Partner, Gutierrez Preciado & House LLP
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 1:45 Public Safety Personnel Issues and Due Process
- Miguel A. Neri, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice
- Lance Bayer, Esq.
- Alison Berry Wilkinson, Berry Wilkinson Law Group
1:45 – 3:15 Current Developments on Pension and Benefits
- Darien Shanske, Associate Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
- Arthur A. Hartinger, Principal, Meyers Nave
- Raymond F. Lynch, Partner, Hanson Bridgett
- Daniel Borenstein, Columnist, Bay Area News Group
- Christopher E. Platten, Wylie, McBride, Platten & Renner
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:30 Deconstruct and Superstruct: Examining Bias Across the Legal System
- Debra Lyn Bassett, Justice Marshall F. McComb Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
4:30 – 6:00 Reception, Bancroft Hotel, Great Hall