8:00-9:00am MCLE Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:05am Welcome by Victor Gold, Dean of Loyola Law School Los Angeles
9:05-10:45am Panel 1 - Fiscal and Budgetary Problems / Reforms
- Dan Walters, Senior Political Writer & Columnist, The Sacramento Bee
Moderator
- Jon Coupal, President, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
Tax and Budget Limitations
- John Heilman, Mayor, West Hollywood; Professor of Law, Whittier Law School
Budgetary Impacts on California's Cities
- Robert Hertzberg, Former Speaker, California Assembly; Co-Chair, California Forward
Bipartisan Fiscal Reforms
- Sheila Kuehl, Former Member, California State Senate
Tax and
Budget Issues
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00-12:40pm Panel 2 - Electoral & Structural Reforms
- Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Senior Fellow, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California; Political Analyst, KNBC
Moderator
- Jessica Levinson, Director of Political Reform, Center for Governmental Studies
The Constitutionality of Open Primaries
- Justin Levitt, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
The Potential of Citizen Redistricting
- Bruce McPherson, Former California Secretary of State; Leadership Council, California Forward
Get Real, and Reform
- Allan Ides, Christoper N. May Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
Los Angeles
Proportional Representation in the Legislature
12:40-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:45pm Panel 3 - Mechanisms for Constitutional Reform
- Karen Grigsby Bates, Los Angeles Correspondent for National Public Radio
Moderator
- Joseph Grodin, Former Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California; Distinguished Emeritus Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Popular Sovereignty and its Limits
- Thad Kousser, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, University of California San Diego; Visiting Assoc. Prof., Bill Lane Center for the West, Stanford University
The Blessings and Curses of Piecemeal Reform
- Ann Lousin, Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School
How to conduct a constitutional convention
- Steven Miller, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Attorney for Repair California
Getting to a Constitutional Convention
- Raphael Sonenshein, Executive Director, Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission; Professor, California State University, Fullerton
Constitutional Revision Commissions
3:45-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:45pm Panel 4 - The Future of Direct Democracy – Reforming the Initiative Process
- Warren Olney, Host & Executive Producer, Which Way, LA? and To the Point, KCRW
Moderator
- Bruce Cain, Director, Institute of Governmental Studies; Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Fixing Ballot Box Budgeting
- Christopher Elmendorf, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
Why Sensible Judicial Enforcement of the Amendment/Revision Distinction Requires a Constitutional Revision
- Robert Stern, President, Center for Governmental Studies
Improving the Initiative Process
- Gerald Uelmen, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
Enforcing the Single Subject Rule for Initiatives
5:45-6:30pm Reception
6:30pm Participant/Sponsor Dinner
- Dan Schnur, Chair, California Fair Political Practices Commission; Professor and Director, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, University of Southern California
Contacts
Symposium Organizer: Karl Manheim - karl.manheim@lls.edu
Law Review Editor: Noreen Guregian - noreen.guregian@lls.edu
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