Wednesday, September 10

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Registration

Thursday, September 11

7:30 am - 5:00 pm

Registration

Policy Responses to The Mortgage Disaster in Ohio

This session will survey the disaster from the urban neighborhood perspective; describe the inadequacies of current policies and programs; and suggest some new public policies and programs for rebuilding neighborhoods.

Speaker:  Kermit J. Lind, Clinical Professor of Law and Assistant Director of Urban Development Law Clinic at Cleveland State University

The Legislative Drafter as Problem Solver

Speakers:  Bruce Feustel, Senior Fellow, NCSL
Jeff Archer, Chief Legislative Counsel, Texas Legislative Council

Fight Blight:  How Cities Are Dealing with Property Abandoned in Subprime Foreclosures

This session will examine the effect on renters when their buildiing is foreclosed, and some recent legislation.  Faculty will also examine the issue from the standpoint of problems caused to the city of Columbus, how they have responded, and suggestions for changes to the law.

Speakers: 
Joe Maskovyak, Ohio State Legal Services Association
Linda Cook, Ohio State Legal Services Association
Richard C. Pfeiffer, Jr., Columbus City Attorney
Creola Johnson, Professor, Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University

Luncheon:  Who Survives on Death Row and Other Facets of the Death Penalty

Speaker: David Jacobs, Professor, Ohio State University

Ethics for Legislative Lawyers

Speakers:  Bruce Feustel, Senior Fellow, NCSL  
Richard A. Whitehouse, Executive Director, State Medical Board of Ohio

Science and the Law: The Curious Case of the Juvenile Criminal

Speaker:  Katherine Hunt Federle, Professor of Law; Director of Justice for Children Project; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Law & Policy Studies  

Resolving Contested Legislative Elections: Case Studies

Speakers:  Matthew Miller, Staff Attorney, Bureau of Legislative Research, Arkansas General Assembly   
Steve Cook, Senate Chief Counsel, Arkansas General Assembly   
Peter S. Wattson, Senate Counsel, Minnesota Legislature

Speakers:  Professor Dan Krane, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Mark Godsey, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Ron O’Brien, Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney

Reception

Columbus Renaissance Hotel 

Friday, September 12 - At the Capitol

Plain Language Drafting and Statutory Interpretation:  Three Points of View

A panel including a judge; a representative who is a former judge; and a legal writing professor will discuss problems with interpretation, getting ideal language into a bill draft, amendments, and substitute bills.

Speaker:  Judge Mark Painter, First District Court of Appeals, Ohio and author of "Write Well" 
Representative William G. Batchelder (former Judge Medina Common Pleas Court of Medina County, Ninth District Court of Appeals 1999-2005 Presiding Judge 2000-2001) 

International Adoption Law

Speaker:  Professor Angela Upchurch, Real Living Academic Director, National Center for Adoption Law & Policy, Capital University Law School

Speaker:  Edward B. Foley, Director, Election Law @ Moritz, and Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law

Luncheon at Capitol

Drafting Criminal Law

Speaker:  Tom Kerbs, Deputy Legislative Counsel, Legislative Counsel Bureau, California Legislature 

This session will focus on the obligation of state government, including local government, to implement international commitments of the United States in regard to the arrest of foreign nationals.

Speakers:  John B. Quigley, President's Club Professor of Law, Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
S. Adele Shank, attorney, Columbus, Ohio

Tour of the Ohio Supreme Court

Ohio Judicial Center

Thoughts From the Bench:  Discussion with a Supreme Court Justice

Speaker:  Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer

Saturday, September 13

8:00 am - 8:45 am

Continental Breakfast