The League of Women Voters of the Rivertowns will host a free panel discussion titled “SCOTUS Rethinks Choice, Guns, and Air Quality. Now What?” next Saturday, Oct. 15, at 10 a.m., at the Greenburgh Public Library, 300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford.
Four legal scholars will discuss the rationale for recent Supreme Court decisions regarding reproductive choice, gun control, and clean air, and the progress of implementation by the states.
The moderator will be Mayo Bartlett, whose White Plains law firm’s practice has focused on criminal defense and civil rights for more than 20 years. He was selected as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers. Working as a prosecutor with the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, he co-founded a youth law forum that brought issues of law and policy to the classroom.
Inga Caldwell will cover the Environmental Protection Agency decision. She is an associate with Cole Schotz P.C. and an adjunct professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where she teaches natural resources law and water rights law. She previously served as associate executive director of Environmental Law Programs at Pace. Caldwell is a member of the American Bar Association section on environment, energy, and resources, and chairs the Constitutional Law Committee.
Alexander K. A. Greenawalt is a professor and Stevens Family Faculty Scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. He will tackle Bruen, the Second Amendment case. A graduate of Columbia Law School, he clerked for the Hon. Stephens F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit before joining the Pace faculty in 2006, where he has taught courses in constitutional law, administrative law, and criminal law.
Rebecca Angel is a third-year student at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, and will sit for the July 2023 bar exam. She has been on the dean’s list for three semesters, and she is a recipient of a merit scholarship, the Pace Law Opportunitas Grant. During the summer of 2022, she volunteered with the Pace Women’s Justice Center in the Family Law and Elder unit conducting legal research to help the unit’s clients and assisting an attorney in the courtroom.
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