The Federalist Society’s Civil Rights Practice Group hosted this panel discussion on Affirmative Action in the Obama Era at the 2009 National Lawyers Convention on Thursday, November 12, 2009. Panelists included Ms. Shirley J. Wilcher, Executive Director of the American Association for Affirmative Action; Prof. Theodore M. Shaw, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University School of Law; Ms. Linda L. Chavez, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity; Hon. Peter N. Kirsanow, Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; and Judge Carlos T. Bea of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as the moderator.