Center for Constitutional Studies

Forfeiture Reform: Now, or Never?

 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION:
  Wintergarden
 9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. INTRODUCTION
  Roger Pilon
B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies
Director, Center for Constitutional Studies,
Cato Institute
 9:10 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
  Hon. Henry J. Hyde
Chairman, House Judiciary Committee
 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. PANEL I — FORFEITURE LAW IN PRACTICE
 

E. E. (Bo) Edwards
Cochair, NACDL Forfeiture Abuse Task Force and Partner, Edwards, Simmons & Oliver

Gordon Kromberg
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia

James Warner
Assistant General
Counsel, National
Rifle Association
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. INTERMISSION
 11.00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PANEL II — FORFEITURE LAW IN THEORY
 

Samuel J. Buffone
Cochair, NACDL Forfeiture Abuse Task Force and Partner, Ropes & Gray

Stefan Cassella
Assistant Chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section
U.S. Department of Justice

Ira Glasser
Executive Director,
American Civil Liberties Union
 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH