CSAC Co-Sponsors Symposium on California Government Reform
Rebooting California: Initiatives, Conventions & Government Reform
The Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review is hosting a symposium, co-sponsored by CSAC, “Rebooting California: Initiatives, Conventions & Government Reform,” on Friday, September 24, in the Robinson Courtroom on Loyola Law School’s downtown Los Angeles campus. The event will feature top legal scholars, jurists and politicians on a slate of panels: Fiscal and Budgetary Problems and Reforms; Electoral and Structural Reforms; Mechanisms for Constitutional Reform; and The Future of Direct Democracy–Reforming the Initiative Process.
Former California Gov. Gray Davis will deliver the lunchtime keynote address. The dinner speaker will be Dan Schnur, chair, California Fair Political Practices Commission; professor and director, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, University of Southern California.
Panel moderators include veteran political reporters and analysts: Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, KNBC-TV political analyst and senior fellow at USC’s School of Policy, Planning and Development; Warren Olney, host of Public Radio International’s To the Point and KCRW-FM’s Which Way, L.A.?, and Dan Walters, senior political writer for the Sacramento Bee.
“California is in crisis. Everyone knows it. But no one, it seems, is able to do anything about it. State government is failing its citizens in education, infrastructure, parks and elsewhere. Our chronic budget deficits cause havoc in the delivery of public services and depress economic growth,” said Professor Karl Manheim, a founding organizer of the event. “Our ‘dysfunction’ is by now common knowledge and worldwide attention. What is less understood, indeed seemingly beyond reach, is how to fix California. That is why we created the Rebooting California event.”
Co-sponsors include the California State Association of Counties, the California Supreme Court Historical Society, the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State University, the Center for Governmental Studies, the Civil Justice Program at Loyola Law School, the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, the League of California Cities and United Ways of California.
A full schedule, blog updates, press coverage and video interviews are all available at RebootCA.org, which also includes a link to the registration page. Students are invited to attend the event for free but must register in advance. MCLE credits are available.
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Paul McIntosh is Executive Director of the California State Association of Counties. He can be reached at pmcintosh.at.counties.org. |
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