Section Sponsors Panels at AALS Meeting in New York City

The Section will be sponsoring two panels at the AALS's 2008 Annual Meeting in New York City

AALS Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law Section ? Main Program ? January 2008

Program Title:    The Participation of Nonprofits in Democracy

Co-sponsor:     Section on Legislation and Law of the Political Process

Date/Time:     Saturday, January 5, 2008 / 10:30 am - 12:15 pm

Moderator:      Miriam Galston (George Washington)

Panelists:     Miranda Perry Fleischer (Illinois); Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Notre Dame); Dana Brakman Reiser (Brooklyn); Richard Briffault (Columbia)

Description:

The relationship between nonprofits and democracy is multi-faceted. From an institutional perspective, there is an inherent tension between maximizing individual liberty by spreading out decision-making and power through non-profits with the need to respect our democratic process. The proper balance of power between these two sectors has been the subject of ongoing debate. This tension is exacerbated when the nonprofit sector seeks to influence the governmental sector directly, and the role that nonprofit organizations should play in political campaigns and lobbying has received increasing attention in recent years. Congress has considered proposals ranging from permitting pastors to endorse candidates from the pulpit to treating all ?527? organizations as PACs. Advocacy groups, unions and businesses are creating growing constellations of nonprofit organizations to influence the public and lawmakers about pressing public policy issues, to shape legislation and ballot initiatives, and to affect who is elected to public office. Lastly, the extent to which nonprofit organizations themselves should be subject to democratic processes in choosing leaders and setting their agendas is a growing area of debate within many organizations.

AALS Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law Section ? Second Program ? January 2008

Program Title:      Roundtable on Nonprofit & Philanthropy Law Scholarship

Date/Time:     Sunday, January 6, 2008 / 9:00 am ? 10:45 am

Moderator:     Darryll Jones (Stetson)

Panelists:     Rob E. Atkinson, Jr. (Florida State); Harvey P. Dale (NYU); James J. Fishman (Pace); Marion R. Fremont-Smith (Harvard ? JFK School of Government); Susan N. Gary (Oregon)

Description:

In this roundtable, pioneering and leading scholars of nonprofit and philanthropy law will discuss this field?s development as a discrete discipline, assess the current state of scholarship in this field, and consider fruitful areas for future research. Panelists will discuss aspects of nonprofit and philanthropy law from the perspective of general notions of corporate law, tax law and trust law.

Read SSRN's Abstracting Journal for NPO Law Scholarship

Click on SSRN's Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law 

 

Also check out the Nonprofit Legal Bibliography, a project of NYU's National Center on Philanthropy and the Law

 

 

 

Information about this Web Site

This web site is maintained by Professors Robert Katz and Norman Silber and hosted by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. This web site is a forum for the exchange of points of view. Opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the Section and do not necessarily represent the position of the Association of American Law Schools, nor those of the hosting institution.