• Who should participate in the decision to open a branch campus abroad and the role of the general counsel’s office in establishing one
• Choice of legal structure, including issues of home institution liability, availability of tax exemptions, and governance
• Establishing key academic and operational policies, including which US policies will travel overseas and why
• Operational challenges, including matters relating to real property, immigration, labor and employment, and application of foreign laws
• Issues related to the closure of a campus overseas

Cathryn Rolfe, Moderator, Vanderbilt University

Peter May, World Learning

James Mercolini, Carnegie Mellon University

• Best practices in drafting facilities use policies
• Restricting attendance at campus events
• Dealing with provocative or controversial speakers on campus
• "Content neutrality" - what it means and how to achieve it
• Other statutes pertinent to facilities use, including the Solomon Amendment

Andrew Hughey, Moderator, Texas Southern University

Henry Lazenby, Portland State University

Lawrence White, University of Delaware

• Staff furloughs and reductions in force (RIFs): Legal Issues, policies, documentation, and implementation issues
• ADEA, WARN and other potential impediments
• RIFs and furloughs of unionized staff
• Sample RIF and furlough documents and policies

Sheldon Steinbach, Moderator, Dow Lohnes PLLC

Carey DeWitt, Butzel Long

Kathleen Rinehart, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, S.C.

• Ethical obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct using the movie The Verdict starring Paul Newman
• Issues of substance abuse and professionalism for attorneys

Christopher Wilson, Moderator, Miami University

Geoffrey Stern, Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter

• Identifying personnel subject to conflict of interest regulations
• Institutional conflicts of interest – is anyone actually doing it right?
• Harmonization with other institutional conflict processes, such as board of trustee and fiduciary official conflict processes
• Evaluating and managing conflicts associated with proprietary interests and entrepreneurial activities
• Recent actions by NIH and congressional oversight

Todd Guttman, The Ohio State University

Stephen Sencer, Emory University

• Overview of Title IX liability standards/applicable legal principles
• Discussion of recent cases concerning sexual assault by student athletes and potential institutional liability
• Policy and process considerations for reducing institutional exposure to student on student harassment litigation
• Policy and procedure drafting and administration of student disciplinary process
• Establishing a training program and other recommended prophylactic steps to reduce exposure to student on student litigation

Daniel Wilkerson, Moderator, University of Colorado

Barbara Lee, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Maureen McClain, Littler Mendelson, P.C.

• Legal implications of institutional budget cuts: anticipating the risks
• Legal triage: how to decide what not to do
• Strategies for coping with decreased office funding but increased workload: increasing office efficiency, reducing costs, and managing and containing external counsel costs

Miles Postema, Ferris State University

Dana Scaduto, Dickinson College

Debra Zumwalt, Stanford University

• Main features of the proposed settlement
• Legal and policy issues for academic institutions and authors
• Author and institutional rights under the proposed settlement
• Who should stay in, who might want to opt out

Allan Adler, American Association of Publishers

Jonathan Band, Jonathan Band, PLLC

Jack Bernard, University of Michigan

Jan Constantine, The Authors Guild

Alexander MacGillivray, Google

• Forum

Darrell VanDeusen, Kollman & Saucier, P.A.