Prof. William R. Yeomans

Fellow in Law and Government, American University Washington College of Law

William Yeomans joined the faculty of law of the American University Washington College of law in 2009 where he teaches courses on civil rights, legislation and the legislative process. From 2006 until 2009, he served as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s Chief Counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Prior to that, he spent 26 years at the Department of Justice where he litigated and supervised civil rights cases in the federal courts at all levels involving voting rights, school desegregation, employment discrimination, housing discrimination, hate crimes, police misconduct, abortion clinic violence, and human trafficking. He served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Staff, and acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. He has also been Legal Director of the Alliance for Justice and the first Director of Programs for the American Constitution Society, where he spearheaded the launch of two publications: the Harvard Law and Policy Review and Advance.

Harvard Law School, LL.M 1978
Boston University Law School, J.D. cum laude, 1976
Trinity College, B.A. 1972

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Nov 14 2013

Thursday 12:00 a.m. EST

2013 National Lawyers Convention

Textualism and the Role of Judges

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

Jonathan H. Adler • Marvin Ammori • Paul S. Atkins • Martin Neil Baily • John S. Baker • David Balto • Rachel Barkow • Randy E. Barnett • Thomas O. Barnett • David Barron • Carlos T. Bea • Paul J. Beard • John H. Beisner • Mitchell Berman • Lillian R. BeVier • Stephanos Bibas • Steven G. Bradbury • Joel F. Brenner • Timothy P. Carney • Roger B. Clegg • Edith Brown Clement • Paul D. Clement • David D. Cole • Ted Cruz • John F. Duffy • S. Kyle Duncan • Frank H. Easterbrook • John C. Eastman • Jennifer Walker Elrod • John Elwood • Richard A. Epstein • William N. Eskridge • Miguel A. Estrada • Jörg Fedtke • Richard W. Fields • Noel J. Francisco • Eric M. Freedman • John Fund • William A. Galston • Robert P. George • Douglas H. Ginsburg • Abbe R. Gluck • Neil Gorsuch • Thomas B. Griffith • Randall D. Guynn • Philip A. Hamburger • Thomas M. Hardiman • Kristin Hickman • James L. Huffman • Scott W. Johnson • Edith H. Jones • Brett M. Kavanaugh • Ashley Keller • Raymond Kethledge • F. Scott Kieff • Andrew Koppelman • William Kuntz • Martin S. Lederman • Mike S. Lee • Leonard A. Leo • Adam Liptak • Robert E. Litan • Margaret A. Little • Jane Mago • Kenneth L. Marcus • John O. McGinnis • David M. McIntosh • Thomas W. Merrill • Eugene B. Meyer • Robert Mikos • Jonathan T. Molot • Thomas D. Morgan • Patrick Morrisey • Alan B. Morrison • Michael B. Mukasey • Burt Neuborne • Victoria Nourse • Jide Okechuku Nzelibe • Eileen J. O'Connor • Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain • Maureen K. Ohlhausen • Walter K. Olson • Ajit V. Pai • Richard Primus • William H. Pryor • Jeremy A. Rabkin • A. Raymond Randolph • John N. Raudabaugh • Michelle Richardson • J Rosch • Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz • Paul Rosenzweig • Erin Ryan • Joshua Sarnoff • David S. Schoenbrod • Reva Siegel • Jerry E. Smith • Stewart E. Sterk • David R. Stras • Nadine Strossen • Diane S. Sykes • George J. Terwilliger • Clarence Thomas • Jonathan R. Turley • Timothy M. Tymkovich • Vincent Vitkowsky • Eugene Volokh • Scott Walker • Seth P. Waxman • J. Harvie Wilkinson • Stephen F. Williams • Joshua D. Wright • Elizabeth Wydra • William R. Yeomans • John C. Yoo

Topics:

Civil Rights • Free Speech & Election Law • Criminal Law & Procedure • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Labor & Employment Law • Religious Liberties • Intellectual Property • Administrative Law & Regulation • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Environmental Law & Property Rights • International & National Security Law • Telecommunications & Electronic Media • Litigation • Professional Responsibility & Legal Education

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Are the Recent Recess Appointments Constitutional?

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Feb 24 2012

Friday 2:00 p.m.

Are the Recent Recess Appointments Constitutional?

Conference Call

Speakers:

Charles J. Cooper • Michael B. Rappaport • Peter M. Shane • William R. Yeomans

Topics:

Federalism & Separation of Powers

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Nov 10 2011

Thursday 9:00 a.m. EST

2011 National Lawyers Convention

The Constitution of Small Government?

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

Hans Bader • Stewart A. Baker • Carlos T. Bea • David Berenbaum • Richard A. Berk • Lester Brickman • Richard Brookhiser • Guido Calabresi • Steven G. Calabresi • Ronald A. Cass • Edith Brown Clement • Paul D. Clement • Cary Coglianese • Deborah J. Daniels • Walter E. Dellinger • Christopher C. DeMuth • Steven J. Eagle • Frank H. Easterbrook • John C. Eastman • John D. Echeverria • Jennifer Walker Elrod • Richard A. Epstein • William N. Eskridge • Brian T. Fitzpatrick • Martin Flaherty • Theodore H. Frank • John Fund • Todd F. Gaziano • Fatima Goss Graves • C. Boyden Gray • Thomas B. Griffith • Sarah V. Hart • Philip K. Howard • Sandra Segal Ikuta • Edith H. Jones • Brett M. Kavanaugh • F. Scott Kieff • Donald J. Kochan • Andrew Koppelman • William Kristol • Douglas Laycock • Mike S. Lee • Leonard A. Leo • Andrew McCarthy • Michael W. McConnell • John O. McGinnis • Edwin Meese • Thomas W. Merrill • Eugene B. Meyer • Thomas D. Morgan • Alan B. Morrison • Michael B. Mukasey • Clark Neily • Jide Okechuku Nzelibe • Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain • David S. Olson • Spencer A. Overton • Alex J. Pollock • William H. Pryor • Randall R. Rader • Michael D. Ramsey • Douglas B. Rasmussen • John N. Raudabaugh • Martin A. Regalia • Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz • Marco Rubio • Nathan A. Sales • Bill Samuel • Julian Sanchez • Antonin Scalia • Eugene Scalia • David B. Sentelle • Jefferson B. Sessions • Ann Shalleck • Paul Singer • Sherwin Siy • Heather L. Slavkin • Jerry E. Smith • Hernando Soto • Donald Specter • Luther Johnson Strange • David R. Stras • Jeffrey S. Sutton • Diane S. Sykes • Stuart S. Taylor • Clarence Thomas • Daniel P. Tokaji • John Tomasi • Laurence H. Tribe • Timothy M. Tymkovich • Eugene Volokh • Hans A. von Spakovsky • Peter J. Wallison • Benjamin Wittes • David Yellen • William R. Yeomans • John C. Yoo • Todd Zywicki

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