YLDems
Weekly Update & Upcoming Events
Dearest Dems,
We hope your semester is off to a blissful start! I, for one, am feeling positively giddy to see the sun after weeks of unyielding grey skies over our fair New Haven. We loved seeing you all at the Zephyr Teachout event last week. I wish I could have seen you all at the APEX event, but alas, registration for that filled up like a TSwift concert. (Tortured Poets Department listening party during reading week, anyone?) Looking to the future, the board would like to direct your attention towards a few exciting events happening across campus.
Upcoming YLDems Events
Dinner with Daniel Hornung - Monday, Feb. 5 at 6:30 pm. Register on Yale Connect.
Daniel Hornung serves as Deputy Director of the National Economic Council and Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the NEC. In this role, he coordinated efforts within the NEC to develop and secure passage of the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. He leads macroeconomic analysis and policy development. He oversees housing policy across the Administration, including development and implementation of the Administration’s Housing Supply Action Plan. Before the NEC, Hornung served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Merrick Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. During the Obama-Biden Administration, Hornung served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Policy Advisor, focused on climate policy, economic policy, and judicial nominations. Prior to that, he worked in the Office of Management and Budget. A native of Chicago, Hornung has also been a fellow at Chicago CRED, an organization focused on increasing economic opportunity in Chicago neighborhoods
Stuart Delery – Thursday, Feb. 29. Additional information forthcoming.
Stuart Delery served as White House Counsel from July 2022 to September 2023, succeeding Dana Remus. On August 17, 2023, Delery announced that he would depart his position. Previously, Delery had served as Deputy Counsel to the President in the Biden administration, announced in December 2020. Prior to that, he was the Acting United States Associate Attorney General from 2014 to 2016.
Bharat Ramamurti – Wednesday, March 6. Additional information forthcoming.
Bharat Ramaurti served as the deputy director of the National Economic Council for manufacturing, innovation, and domestic competitiveness from 2021 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the COVID-19 Congressional Oversight Commission, a congressional oversight body tasked with overseeing the Department of the Treasury's and the Federal Reserve Board's management of stimulus and loan programs mandated by the CARES Act.
External Events This Week
Panel: The Federal Budget Process and Questions Facing CBO, Monday, Feb. 5 at 1:10 in SLB 128
Sponsored by the The Budget Lab at Yale and The Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund. Speakers will include:
Nadiya Beckwith-Stanley, Associate, Tax, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Wendy Edelberg, Director, The Hamilton Project; Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution
Marc Goldwein, Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Daniel Hornung, Deputy Director, National Economic Council
Zachary Liscow, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
John McClelland, Director of Tax Analysis, Congressional Budget Office
The Flores Plaintiffs: Directly Impacted Perspectives on Parole and Juvenile Punishment – Wednesday, Feb. 7, 12:10 in SLB 129. Check it out on Yale Connect.
The plaintiffs in Flores v. Stanford are suing the New York Parole Board to vindicate the constitutional rights of incarcerated people sentenced to indeterminate life sentences as children (“juvenile lifers”). The Parole Board has denied, and continues to deny, juvenile lifers a meaningful opportunity for release based on their demonstrated rehabilitation—in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The panelists will speak on their direct experience with New York’s often-arbitrary parole process, unjust sentencing practices, and their re-entry into their communities following release. They will also speak about their current advocacy for a parole system that recognizes the capacity for growth and rehabilitation. Dwayne Betts ’16—lawyer, poet, and founder of Freedom Reads—will moderate the conversation. This panel is sponsored by the Civil Rights Advocacy Clinic, which represents the Flores plaintiffs in their lawsuit, and co-sponsored by the Civil Rights Project and the Yale Defenders Society.
Reclaiming our Votes: Voting Rights in 2024 by the Afro-American Cultural Center – Wednesday, Feb 7, 2024 from 6:30 to 8 PM EST in The Founder's Room at The House. Check it out on Yale Connect.
In Collaboration with YaleVotes, The CEI and ICSJ teams are spearheading a BHM event titled ‘Reclaiming Our Vote,” where Yale and New Haven community members will gather to learn about and discuss America’s complex history with voting rights and voter suppression, with a particular focus on Black history and local impact. The event will feature three panelists with diverse interests related to voting rights, as well as a dinner-discussion to further the conversation with our experts. Come learn ways to make a difference in New Haven and national politics. (The House is hosting a ton of great events for Black History Month - check the full roster out here.)
A Conversation with David Cohen, United States Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency – Thursday, February 8, 2024 in SLB 128
Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges hosts a conversation with David Cohen, United States Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
If/When/How Lawyering for Reproductive Justice Happy Hour – Thursday, Feb 8, 2024 at 7 PM at The Cannon. Register on Yale Connect.
The YLS chapter of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice is excited to invite you to join them at their Welcome Back Happy Hour on Thursday, February 8th. Please be sure to register on Yale Connect.
DefCon – Friday, Feb. 9, 2024 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. RSVP here.
DefSoc’s first conference in over four years will bring together practitioners, students, and scholars for a day of discussion on the most pressing topics and challenges in public defense today. A keynote address will be delivered by Jonathan Rapping, founder and CEO of Gideon’s Promise, an organization that has worked to transform indigent defense systems across the country since 2007. Panels running throughout the day will cover topics ranging from capital defense, non-criminal practice, and public defense perspectives on the Rahimi litigation. RSVP by Tuesday, February 6 at noon if you want to be guaranteed lunch.
As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, or want to share our mutual excitement over the new album, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Board.
Until next week!
The YLDems Board
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