Session 1

The Supreme Court’s Recent and Upcoming Election Law Cases: Implications & Impact

Richard L. Hasen is the Gary T. Schwartz Endowed Chair in Law, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy), and Director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law. He is an internationally recognized expert in election law, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts. He is co-author of leading casebooks in election law and remedies. Hasen served in 2022 and 2024 as an NBC News/MSNBC Election Law Analyst. He was a CNN Election Law Analyst in 2020. From 2001-2010, he served (with Dan Lowenstein) as founding co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal. He is the author of over 100 articles on election law issues, published in numerous journals including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Supreme Court Review, and Yale Law Journal. He was elected to The American Law Institute in 2009. Professor Hasen holds a B.A. degree from UC Berkeley, and a J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. from UCLA.

Rachel Sowray (moderator) is a Senior Assistant Attorney General with the Oregon Department of Justice Antitrust, False Claims, & Privacy Section. Previously, she served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney and as a Deputy District Attorney for Washington County. She is the Founder and Manager of the legal education platform CLEcast. In 2017, Sowray also founded a nonpartisan nonprofit, Politisit, that increases civic engagement and voter turnout. She received her B.A. from the College of William & Mary, her M.P.P. from George Washington University, and her J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law. Grid Item

Panel 1

Rapid Fire Review of Cases with Oregon Law Faculty

Professor Adell Amos holds the Clayton R. Hess Professorship at the University of Oregon School of Law and serves as Executive Director of the UO Environment Initiative. A nationally recognized expert in water law and environmental policy, her research examines water governance, public participation, and the role of law in addressing environmental challenges. Before joining the UO faculty, Amos practiced environmental and natural resources law with the U.S. Department of the Interior and later served in the Obama Administration as Deputy Solicitor for Land and Water Resources, overseeing legal and policy issues involving the nation’s public lands and water resources. Her scholarship has appeared in leading legal and scientific journals, including Nature Sustainability and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has received support from the National Science Foundation and NOAA.  

Tom Lininger is the Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law.  He writes about criminal adjudication, evidence, and ethics, among other subjects.  The U.S. Supreme Court has cited his scholarship, as have 22 states’ supreme courts and federal appellate courts in nine circuits.   Oregon’s governor appointed Lininger to chair the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, and the chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court appointed Lininger to serve on the Oregon Public Defense Commission.  He earned his undergraduate degree from Yale and his J.D. from Harvard. 

Orli Oren-Kolbinger is a University of Oregon School of Law professor teaching taxation and tax policy. Her research examines how tax systems can advance social goals, focusing on behavioral responses to taxation, judicial decision-making, asymmetries in the tax system, tax literacy, and reforms aimed at improving the equitable administration of tax benefits. Her scholarship has appeared in law reviews and journals including the Seton Hall Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Florida Tax Review, Pittsburgh Tax Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, and other leading journals. She holds a B.A., LL.B., and LL.M. from the University of Haifa and a Ph.D. in Law from Bar-Ilan University. 

Ofer Raban is a University of Oregon School of Law Professor and the Elmer Sahlstrom Senior Faculty Fellow.  His principal research interests are constitutional law, legal philosophy, and criminal law. He is the author of two books on legal philosophy and of numerous law review articles. His work has been cited by federal courts and translated into Chinese, Polish, Korean, Turkish, and Hebrew. Professor Raban worked as a prosecutor in New York before joining academia. He also taught at the University of Oxford and the University of Utah. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his doctorate in legal philosophy from Oxford University. 

Allison A. Schmitt is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence, intellectual property, technology regulation, and the commercialization of emerging technologies. Her recent scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, and Annals of Health Law & Life Sciences. Previously, she founded and served as inaugural Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s Life Sciences Law & Policy Center.  Before entering academia, Professor Schmitt worked in private practice and clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. 

Professor Liz Tippett is a leading scholar of employment law, workplace technology, and legal history. Her research examines how law and technology shape modern workplaces, including the role of HR software in employment decisions. Her 2025 book, The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt the Modern Workplace (UC Press), explores how centuries-old legal principles continue to influence employer-employee relationships today. Her scholarship has been cited by state and federal courts and published in leading law journals. Tippett has testified before both the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on workplace issues and consumer protection. Before joining the University of Oregon School of Law in 2012, she practiced employment law at Wilson Sonsini and earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

Andrew Winden (moderator), an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, is a scholar of corporate governance and sustainability. He teaches Business Associations, Mergers & Acquisitions and Sustainable Business, and was the 2024 recipient of Oregon’s Hollis outstanding teaching award. Prior to joining Oregon Law in 2022, Winden was an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and a Fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. Before entering academia, he spent more than twenty years in practice, including ten years as a corporate partner at Morrison & Foerster, where he was consistently recognized in The Chambers Global Guide as one of the leading capital markets attorneys in Japan. Outside class, he hikes, surfs and practices yoga.

Panel 2

The Supreme Court in Transition: Institutional Change, Controversies, & Judicial Dynamics

Miriam Rosenbaum is a senior fellow in the Office of the President at the Brennan Center, where she works on litigation and policy issues related to federalism and checks and balances, with a focus on the Supreme Court. Previously, she worked as a litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and interned at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She also clerked for Judge Barrington Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Rosenbaum holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, a master’s degree from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School. 

Olatunde Johnson is a professor at Columbia Law School and the Co-Director of the Columbia Center for Constitutional Governance, where she helps advance research and dialogue on constitutional democracy and the rule of law. Johnson has combined academic leadership with significant public service, including work on civil rights and constitutional issues at the national level. Her prior work includes clerking for Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court and working as a litigator for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She was also a member of President Joe Biden’s Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. She earned a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.   

Stuart Chinn (moderator) is the Frank Nash Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. He writes and teaches about constitutional law, legislation, legal and political history, and American higher education. Stuart received his B.A., Ph.D. (political science) and J.D. degrees from Yale University. 

Panel 3

Who is American? And Other Immigration & Citizenship Cases Before the Supreme Court

Joel Sati is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. Professor Sati's work focuses on the phenomenon of illegalization, which he defines as state practices of criminalization that use immigration enforcement as a tool of social degradation. His scholarship includes publications in the Washington Post, Duke University Press, and the University of California Press. His article "Privacy and the Impossibility of Borders" was published by the UCLA Law Review in 2025. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and his JD from Yale Law School. He lives with his two cats, Bruce and Ricky. 

Benjamin Wang is the founder of Benjamin Beijing Wang, P.C., an immigration law firm serving clients in Oregon, across the United States, and internationally. For more than two decades, he has focused exclusively on U.S. immigration law. He helps families stay together in the U.S. and assists businesses with employment-related immigration matters. He has appeared before immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He also serves as a professor pro tem at the University of Oregon School of Law. After beginning his education in China, he earned a B.A. from Seattle University and a J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law. 

Christine Zeller-Powell is the director of Catholic Community Services of Lane County’s Refugee and Immigrant Program. She began working at Catholic Community Services of Lane County in 2018. Her work focuses on aiding with refugee resettlement and general immigration legal services. She holds a J.D. from the University of Oregon’s School of Law.

Arifa Raza (moderator) is an assistant professor in the University of Oregon Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies Department.  Dr. Raza's research examines the criminalization and racialization of immigrants, focusing on relief for victims of human trafficking and immigrant children. Her scholarship is grounded in her experience as a non-profit immigration attorney where she specialized in deportation defense and representation of detained individuals. She has practiced before the Los Angeles and El Paso immigration courts as well as the Board of Immigration Appeals. She holds a J.D. from UCLA and a Ph. D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Riverside.