Sounding Board
Meetings will be
held virtually via Zoom until further notice.
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Sounding
Board is
a series of seven lectures during the academic year, the first
Thursday at 12 noon, sponsored by UC San Diego Oceanids and the UC
San Diego Faculty Club. We will be meeting online via Zoom. The
waiting room opens at 12pm and the presentations starts at 12:10pm
sharp. For
more information regarding the specific presentation, contact the
person listed below.
April 4, 2024, 12pm
via Zoom
Thad Kousser, Ph.D,
Co-Director of the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research
and Professor Political Science, UC San Diego
"Why American
Federalism is a Recipe for Distrust in Elections - And what to do about
it"
Thad Kousser, who studies American state and
national politics, voting reforms, direct democracy, and how politicians
use social media, joined UC San Diego in 2003. His work has been
published in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, the American Political Science Review, the Revue Francaise de
Science Politique, the Journal of Politics, and Political Analysis. He
has authored or edited the books The Logic of American Politics,
Politics in the American States, The Power of American Governors, The
New Political Geography of California, Term Limits, and the Dismantling
of State Legislative Professionalism, and Adapting to Term Limits:
Recent Experiences and New Directions.
He has been a visiting professor at
Stanford University, held the Flinders Fulbright Distinguished Chair at
Flinders University in Australia, received UCSD’s Academic Senate’s
Distinguished Teaching Award, served as co-editor of the journals
Legislative Studies Quarterly and State Politics and Policy Quarterly,
and has worked as a staff assistant in the California, New Mexico, and
United States Senates. Kousser also comments on American politics for
venues such as NPR, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
For more information regarding Professor
Kousser's presentation, please contact
Barbara Brody or
Charlotte Flowerree.
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May 2, 2024, 12pm
via Zoom
Judge M. Margaret McKeown,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
"Global Challenges to Democracy—Reflections from three decades
of rule of law engagement"
Judge McKeown has served more than twenty-five
years as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She
is a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, an affiliated scholar at the Center for the American
West at Stanford University, and jurist-in-residence at the University
of San Diego School of
Law. She has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern
University School of Law and the University of Washington School of Law.
As a former White
House Fellow, she served as special assistant at the White House and as
special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior.
Judge McKeown recently published
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public
Advocate and Conservation Champion (Potomac Press,
2022).
Judge McKeown graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and holds
an honorary doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center. Before her
appointment, she was the first woman partner at Perkins Cole in Seattle
and Washington, D.C., was a founder of the firm’s Washington, D.C.
office, and concentrated on trial and appellate work in high tech cases,
antitrust, intellectual property, and complex litigation.
Judge McKeown is a member of the
Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Judicial Conduct
and Disability, appointed by Chief Justice Roberts. She
was previously a member and chair of the Judicial Conference of the
United States Committee on Code of Conduct (ethics). She chairs the
Ninth Circuit Workplace
Environment Committee and is a member of the National Workplace Conduct
Working Group. She is on the Council of the American Law Institute, the
Judicial Advisory Board of the American Society of International Law,
and the editorial board of Litigation magazine. She also served as Chair
of the ABA Commission on the
19th Amendment, past President of the Federal Judges Association, and on
the managerial board of the International Association of Women Judges.
Judge McKeown is on the board of the World
Justice Project and is Vice Chair of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative and
a current special advisor. She has lectured
throughout the world on international law, intellectual property, human
rights, ethics, and constitutional law and has participated in numerous
rule of law initiatives
with judges and lawyers. She has published widely in the areas of
technology, ethics, and international law.
Judge McKeown received the ABA
Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement award, the ABA John Marshall
Award, the Inns of Court Ninth Circuit
Professionalism Award, the Washington Women Lawyers President’s Award,
and the Girl Scouts Cool Woman Award, among others.
A Wyoming native, she serves on the board of
Teton Science Schools and was a member of the first American expedition
to Mt. Shishapangma in Tibet. Judge
McKeown has her chambers in San Diego, California.
For more information regarding Judge McKeown's
presentation, please contact
Barbara Brody or
Charlotte Flowerree.
