Participants

Keynote Address

Michael E. Tigar, Research Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, Visiting Professor, Duke Law School, Professeur Invite, Universite Paul Cezanne.

Banquet Address

Gerald Lefcourt, Esq. Law Office of Gerald B. Lefcourt, P.C., New York, New York. Past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and founder of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Conference Speakers

Raymond M. Brown, Esq., Chair, White Collar Defense and Corporate Compliance Practice  Group, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis, Woodbridge, New Jersey.

Alafair S. Burke, Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School.

James Farragher Campbell, Esq., Campbell, DeMetrick & Jacobo, San Francisco, California. James Farragher Campbell, is a nationally recognized expert in the law of DUI and Vehicular Homicide; and he is one of the country's most successful DUI defense lawyers.

I. Bennett Capers, Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School.

Angela J. Davis, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University.

Eric M. Freedman, Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, Hofstra Law School.

Monroe H. Freedman, Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School.

Leon Friedman, Joseph Kushner Distinguished Professor of Civil Liberties Law, Hofstra Law School.

Stephen Gillers, Emily Kempin Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.

Glenda Grace, Assistant Visiting Professor, Hofstra Law School.

Jeanne Gray Esq. Director, Center for Professional Responsibility, American Bar Association.

Bruce Green, Stein Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law.

Joel Hirschhorn, Esq., Hirschhorn & Bieber, P.A., Coral Gables, Florida. Considered one of America’s most prominent criminal defense trial attorneys, Joel Hirschhorn has been named to Best Lawyers of America for 21 consecutive years.

Ronald Kuby, Esq., New York, New York. Civil rights and criminal defense attorney, talk show host, and WABC radio host.

Lisa G. Lerman, Professor of Law, Coordinator of Clinical Programs, CoDirector of Law and Public Policy Program, The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.

Adam Liptak, National Legal Correspondent, New York Times

Richard Mauro, Esq., Criminal defense attorney, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Kevin McMunigal,Judge Ben C. Green Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Maj. Daniel Mori, United States Marine Corps. Defense counsel for David Hicks, an Australian citizen who was detained at Guantanamo Bay. Major Mori has been a vocal critic of the military commissions set up by the Pentagon.  He has received the Navy Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corp Achievement Medal, the Good Conduct Medal and other service and unit awards.

Andrew Perlman, Associate Professor, Suffolk University Law School.

Burnele V. Powell, Miles and Ann Loadholt Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law.

Abbe Smith, Co-Director, Criminal Justice Clinic and E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship Program; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center.

Clive Stafford-Smith, Founder and Legal Director, Reprieve, London, England. Human rights organization which fights for the lives of people facing the death penalty.

John Steele, Esq., Fish & Richardson P.C., Silicon Valley, California. Ethics & Conflicts Director and Special Counsel.

Lynne Stewart, High profile radical and attorney (disbarred).

Ralph J. Temple, Esq., Ashland, Oregon, Member of board of directors of the ACLU of Oregon, and of its Southern Oregon Chapter, formerly served as legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area from 1966 to 1980,  member of the National ACLU’s board 1981 to 1984.

Charles Wolfram, Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor Emeritus, Cornell Law School.

Ellen Yaroshefsky, Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Ethics Center, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Conference Director

Roy D. Simon, Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics, Director of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, Hofstra Law School.