Richard hansen look at federal Voting Rights cases for the past 50 years and talk about how gerrymandering constitute modern forms of voter suppression. This was part of a symposium tled and franchising enfranchasing. It is 1. 5 hours. From lunch. Ack m a our first speaker is william kunz. He was nominated to the federal bench in march 2011 by president barack obama and unanimously confirmed by the United States 3, 2011. October kirsch ized in commercial and labor litigation. He served as the associate or fester Brooklyn Law School from 1987 to 2003. Received an a. B. , and phd from harvard. He will discuss the 15th amendment to the United States constitution with a special on history at the District Court level. Wee will hear from will hear from on election law and campaign finance. He received his undergraduate education at the university of ma andy and received his phd from the university of california los angeles. ,rior to his current position he taught the chicago Campus College o