Citizens United and American Democracy
Sidney M. Milkis
Speaker: Sidney M. Milkis
Date: October 18, 2010
Description
On October 18, the GAGE program will co-host a special panel with the Campaign Finance Institute on Citizens United v. FEC in Washington, D.C. The panel will engage campaign finance experts, journalists, political theorists, and historians to discuss this controversial case and the legislation that has been proposed to amend it, and the critical relationship between campaign expenditures and American democracy.
Panelists and respondents include Gerald Berk, University of Oregon; Allison Hayward, George Mason School of Law; Michael Malbin, Executive Director of the Campaign Finance Institute; Peter Overby, NPR’s Washington Correspondent on Power, Money, and Influence; Spencer Overton, The George Washington University Law School; Trevor Potter, founding President and General Counsel of the Campaign Legal Center; and Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University.
Sidney Milkis, White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics and Assistant Director for Democracy & Governance Studies at the Miller Center, will serve as moderator.
Attendance at this event is by invitation-only, but recordings from the proceedings will be archived on the Miller Center’s website.
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