Beyond the Headlines: Key SCOTUS Civil Rights Decisions from the 2023-24 Term (Presented by the Federal Bar Association Civil Rights Law Section)

Benjamin de Seingalt, Corporate Counsel and Director of Compliance and Privacy | MarketVision Research

Benjamin de Seingalt is the Corporate Counsel and Director of Compliance and Privacy for MarketVision Research, one of the largest primary market research and consulting firms in the United States. His work focuses on global privacy compliance, corporate social responsibility, artificial intelligence, and post-market drug surveillance. Ben is also a Senior Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation and serves on the board of the Federal Bar Association’s Section on Civil Rights, the BHBIA’s Ethics and Compliance Committee, ESOMAR’s AI Task Force, Intellus’ Data Integrity and Artificial Intelligence Task Force, and the Insights Association’s Standards Committee. He is a graduate of Tulane University Law School, the A.B. Freeman School of Business, and Washington College.

Samuel T. Brandao, Director | Tulane University Law School

Sam Brandao is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law with experience enforcing civil rights including fair housing, rights protected by the Fourth Amendment, and disability rights. He is the Director of Tulane University Law School’s Civil Rights and Federal Practice Clinic, where he supervises student-attorneys in a range of client representation, including federal cases involving the civil rights of incarcerated citizens, police misconduct, employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and other constitutional claims. He joined the law faculty in 2016 after completing a two-year Skadden Fellowship, during which he served as a staff attorney at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services in New Orleans. At SLLS, he litigated housing discrimination cases and advocated for policy changes on behalf of people with disabilities. Brandao clerked for United States District Judge Eldon E. Fallon of the Eastern District of Louisiana and for Circuit Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

I. 2023-2024 Term | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

II. Voting Rights, Gender and Reproductive Rights Decisions | 2:10pm – 2:30pm

III. Immigration, Social Media, and Second Amendment Decisions | 2:30pm – 2:45pm

IV. Looking Ahead to the 2024-2025 Term | 2:45pm – 2:50pm

V. Q&A | 2:50pm – 3:00pm