Monday, November 16, 12:10-2pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Now that the people have voted, the country has entered the transition phase, the two months after election day and before the new Congress is sworn in (January 3) and presidential inauguration day (January 20). Four years after a norm-defying Trump transition, the 2020 transition is also shaping up to be unusual: pandemic disease and the economic crisis demand urgent action, while, meanwhile, control of the U.S. Senate will be decided by two run-off elections and the incumbent President refuses to concede.

Led by top national experts and current practitioners, this remarkable public discussion is a primer on the just-started hand-off of power at the federal level, and what to expect.

Confirmed speakers, and what they will address, include the following.

• Prof. Dakota Rudesill, Moritz College of Law, and former member of the Obama-Biden Transition Team: moderator

• Professor Ned Foley, Moritz College of Law, and Director of Election Law at Ohio State: status of the presidential election and key legal process steps ahead

• Martha Joynt Kumar, Director, White House Transition Project: how presidential transitions work

• Megan Cassella, Politico reporter: how the current transition is going

• David Priess, former CIA officer: intelligence briefings for new spymasters

• Petra Smeltzer, member of the Biden-Harris Transition Team and former Obama White House Associate Counsel: ethics and avoiding conflicts of interest

• Bill Dauster, former Counsel to the Senate Majority Leader: the transition in Congress, and resolving election disputes

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Mershon Center for International Security Studies.