Washington- The Government Accountability Project (GAP), Tom Devine, Esq. Legal Director, has announced that it will hold a legal conference in conjunction with the American University Washington College of law on June 23, 2008.
GAP describes the conference as follows: “Emerging from eight years of unprecedented assertions of executive power and government secrecy, and a judicial rollback of citizens' free speech rights, Congress has a real opportunity to enact historic openness reforms. This conference explores new and pending laws that empower employees to blow the whistle and make our institutions more open and accountable. Panel 1 addresses what went wrong with the old whistleblower laws, how public employees' First Amendment rights have been constrained, and how recently enacted reforms will help remedy these shortcomings. Panel 2 considers strategies for effecting national security disclosures and legislative reforms to protect national security whistleblowers. The final panel focuses on how the whistleblower bills that are pending or awaiting reconciliation promise to advance an openness agenda.”
GAP's schedule shows the noted morning panel speakers include Mark Cohen, GAP Executive Director Project, : Professor David Vladeck, Georgetown University Law Center, David Marshall, Partner, Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP; Sean Moulton, Director of Federal Information Policy, OMB Watch; Bonnie Robin-Vergeer, Attorney, Public Citizen Litigation Group; Jason Zuckerman, Principal, The Employment Law Group, PC, Washington, DC. Mark Niles, Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, American University Washington College of Law
Featured Luncheon Introduction and Speakers:
--Jesselyn Radack, GAP Homeland Security Director
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