Conference Examines Aging Voter Problems

Pacific McGeorge’s Capital Center for Government Law and Policy hosts a conference on “Facilitating Voting as People Age: Implications of Cognitive Impairment” this week at the law school. Some of the leading experts in the country on voting rights will participate in the invitation-only event that will run from March 21-24 in Sacramento. Participants include: Dr. Paul S. Applebaum, professor of psychiatry, medicine and law at Columbia University; Dr. Jason Karlawish, senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics; Charlie Sabatino, the assistant director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging; and constitutional law professor Pamela Karlan of the Stanford Law School. Thursday’s session will feature a keynote address by Deborah Markowitz, the Vermont Secretary of State and president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. California Secretary of State Debra Bowen will speak to the group on Friday. Distinguished Visiting Professor Ned Spurgeon, the inaugural holder of the Gordon D. Schaber Chair in Health Law and Policy at Pacific McGeorge, is the conference organizer.