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Thursday October 9, 2008
Putting the Rule of Law First
Start: 11:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
The FLDS Litigation
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
ACS: Food for Thought
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Notice Something Missing?: A Panel Discussion on Sexual Orientation as a Protected Class
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Voter Rights Issues, featuring Ion Sancho
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Climate Change Cap-and-Trade Legislation: Preserve, Conserve, and Steward OR Tax, Spend, and Control?
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
The Supreme Court on Trial?
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Friday October 10, 2008
The Chicago-Kent College of Law 2008 Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize Lecture
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Ever wondered what it's like to write a constitution?
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 5:00 pm
The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Start: 4:00 pm
Start: Oct 10 2008 - 4:00pm
End: Oct 12 2008 - 12:00pm
Saturday October 11, 2008
The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Rights
(all day)
Start: Oct 10 2008 - 4:00pm
End: Oct 12 2008 - 12:00pm
Sunday October 12, 2008
The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Rights
End: 12:00 pm
Start: Oct 10 2008 - 4:00pm
End: Oct 12 2008 - 12:00pm
Concord Chapter - Promoting Political Participation
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Monday October 13, 2008
ACS National Membership Drive!
Start: 11:00 am
Start: Oct 13 2008 - 11:00am
End: Oct 15 2008 - 2:00pm
General Membership Mtg - Talk on Oral Advocacy at the Supreme Court and a progressive judiciary
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Film Screening of: "Voting Rights in the 2008 Election: How Do We Protect the Vote"
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
ACS Roundtable with Prof. Srikantiah
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Beyond Male and Female? Transgender Rights Under the Law
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Social Justice Week
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Movie Screening: "Free for All!"
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:45 pm
Tuesday October 14, 2008
ACS National Membership Drive!
(all day)
Start: Oct 13 2008 - 11:00am
End: Oct 15 2008 - 2:00pm
Civil Remedies
Start: 12:45 am
End: 2:00 am
U.S. Supreme Court Trip
Start: 9:00 am
End: 8:00 pm
Renewable Energy in Arizona: Law and Policy Implications of Arizona Becoming the Persian Gulf of Green Energy
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
A New Constitution for Oregon?
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Labor and the Employer Free Choice Act?
Start: 12:10 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Election Protection Training
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:29 pm
Containing the Credit Crisis: What Went Wrong and What's Next?
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Supreme Court Preview
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Election Protection Training
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
2008 ACS Supreme Court Preview
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Portia Project Forum and Debate
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Social Event: Westwood Brew Co. Trivia Night
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Wednesday October 15, 2008
ACS National Membership Drive!
End: 2:00 pm
Start: Oct 13 2008 - 11:00am
End: Oct 15 2008 - 2:00pm
Asylum Law and the Sanctuary Movement (Immigration and U.S. Policy) with Visiting Speaker - Rev. Craig Mousin
Start: 8:00 am
End: 9:00 am
The Pulpit, The Politician, Providence and the Blog - Featuring Rev. Craig Mousin
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Israel, Palestine and the Rule of Law
Start: 12:45 pm
End: 2:00 pm
ACS Welcoming
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Immigration
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
The Bailout: Economic Recovery or Voodoo Economics?
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
The Constitution in 2020: ACS Fall 2008 Reading Group on Terms of Belonging
Start: 6:10 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Debate Watching Party
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Thursday October 16, 2008
Domestic Violence and the Criminal Justice System
Start: 12:45 am
End: 2:00 am
LALSA/ACS Bake Sale
Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
UB Block Party
Start: 11:00 am
End: 6:00 pm
ACS Video Voting Rights
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
14th Amendment and Social Justice Litigation
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
A Fresh Start for a New Administration: Reforming Law and Justice Policies
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Nonpartisan Election Protection Effort
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Politics From the Pulpit: Rights of Non-Profit Organizations?
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
ACS: Food for Thought
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Voting Rights in 2008
Start: 12:20 pm
End: 1:20 pm
ACS Simulcast: “Voting Rights in the 2008 Election: How Do We Ensure Every Vote Counts?”
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Career panel: How to be involved with reproductive rights?
Start: 12:45 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Shifting Views: Criminal Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa?
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Advancing the Consensus: 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Start: 2:00 pm
Start: Oct 16 2008 - 2:00pm
End: Oct 18 2008 - 5:00pm
How Not to Design a Constitution?
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Power and the Presidency: the Stakes in the Upcoming Election
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Student/Attorney Networking Happy Hour
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Politics from the Pulpit: Rights of Non-Profit Organizations and the Election
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Regional ACS Happy Hour
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Potential Supreme Court and Other Judicial Appointees, the Attorney General, the Department of Justice and the Geneva Convention
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
ACS Membership Drive Party!!
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Friday October 17, 2008
Advancing the Consensus: 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(all day)
Start: Oct 16 2008 - 2:00pm
End: Oct 18 2008 - 5:00pm
Voting Rights in the 2008 Election: How Do We Ensure Every Vote Counts
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:30 pm
ACS Team Trivia
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Saturday October 18, 2008
Advancing the Consensus: 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
End: 5:00 pm
Start: Oct 16 2008 - 2:00pm
End: Oct 18 2008 - 5:00pm
Monday October 20, 2008
The Supreme Court and a New Administration
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Health Care Reform and the Election
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
McCain, Obama, and the Supreme Court?
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
The True Meaning of Lawrence v. Texas?
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Progressive Public Lawyering
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:30 pm
From Army Chaplain to Prisoner: A personal account from the front lines of Guantanmo
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Professor Jim Greiner discusses what the enforcement of Voting Rights Laws entails
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Viewing of:"Voting Rights in the 2008 Election: How Do We Ensure Every Vote Counts?"
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Samosa Night
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Tuesday October 21, 2008
“Hot Topics, Cold Facts: A Discussion about the November 2008 Propositions”
Start: 8:13 am
A Discussion of California's Prop 8 and the Definition of Marriage
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Election Issues in 2008: A Discussion on Voting Rights and Restrictions
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Universal Health Care: Is It Even Achievable?
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Sheila Sexton, Beeson Tayer & Bodine APC
Start: 12:45 pm
End: 1:45 pm
Health Care Policy
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Post Heller: Gun Control and an Individual’s Right to Bear Arms
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Poll Watcher Training
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Wednesday October 22, 2008
California Proposition 8 Discussion
Start: 5:30 am
End: 6:30 am
The Fred Gray Sr. Civil Rights Symposium
Start: 8:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
The NLRB, Unions, and Workers' Rights
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
General Body Meeting
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Voting Rights
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Reflections on a Lifetime of Public Interest Lawyering - Featuring Antonia Hernandez
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Exploring Voting Rights: A Debate on Issues Facing the Upcoming Election.
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:20 pm
Stephen Ansolabehere - Forty years after One Person, One Vote
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Counting to Five: What the 2008 Election Means for the Supreme Court
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Disability Voting Rights Speaker Panel
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Constitution in 2020: ACS Fall 2008 Reading Group featuring Bill Eskridge - Family Law in 2020
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Prof. Abbe Smith presents excerpts from her book Case of a Lifetime
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Thursday October 23, 2008
The Courts and the Election
Start: 11:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Evolving Standards of Decency?: The Death Penalty and the Supreme Court (Debate)
Start: 12:00 pm
The Death Penalty in Modern American Society
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:47 pm
Judge Tatel - "Thoughts on the DC Circuit and Other Matters"
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:20 pm
Covering the Court with Lyle Denniston
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Florida Amendments Overview
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
ACS Roundtable with David Victor
Start: 12:30 pm
"Voting Rights in the 2008 Election: How Do We Ensure Every Vote Counts?"
Start: 12:45 pm
End: 1:45 pm
Domestic Violence and the workplace
Start: 12:45 pm
End: 2:00 pm
What's at Stake? The Future of the Court
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
ACS and Fed Socs present a discussion on Boumediene v. Bush
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 5:30 pm
The Election: A Panel Discussion
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
ACS Bay Area Networking & Development (BAND) 2nd Annual Kickoff
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
ACS at GW Law's Thirsty Thursday in the SCC
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
ACS BAND Kick-off
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Supreme Court Preview: Key Cases to Watch in the 2008-2009 Term
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Monday October 27, 2008
Public Interest Career Week Panel
Start: 9:00 am
Start: Oct 27 2008 - 9:00am
End: Oct 31 2008 - 6:00pm
Discussing Warrantless Wiretapping & the Fourth Amendment
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Presidential Election & The Supreme Court: What's at Stake?
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Supreme Court '07-08 Looking Back at the Court's Last Term
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:15 pm
Drowning in Ballot Measures? Rethinking the California Initiative Process
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Lunch Talk with ACLU's Ben Wizner
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Teach for America and the Education Reform Movement? Calhoun Master's Tea with Cory Booker
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Voting Rights Celebration
Start: 6:30 pm
Tuesday October 28, 2008
Public Interest Career Week Panel
(all day)
Start: Oct 27 2008 - 9:00am
End: Oct 31 2008 - 6:00pm
Supreme Court Moot 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett
Start: 12:15 am
End: 1:15 pm
Election Law Hot Topics: What to expect as Americans Head to the Polls
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Supreme Court Moot - Penn Plaza v. Pyett
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 3:49 pm
A Brief History of Vote Suppression in America from the Civil Rights Movement to Present
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Will Every Vote Count? Voter Protection and the Presidential Election
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Politicization of The United States Department of Jutice: Hiring and Firing Scandals
Start: 12:20 pm
End: 1:20 pm
October Monthly Meeting
Start: 12:40 pm
End: 1:40 pm
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson
Start: 12:45 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Mikva Dinner with Professor Brian Leiter
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Social Event: Westwood Brew Co. Trivia Night
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Wednesday October 29, 2008
Public Interest Career Week Panel
(all day)
Start: Oct 27 2008 - 9:00am
End: Oct 31 2008 - 6:00pm
"Election 2008: Protecting the Right to Vote" & "Annual Meetings and Elections"
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Student Debate
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
NUSL ACS sponsors a film screening: Race to Execution
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
The Election and the Supreme Court?
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:15 pm
"Natural" Law?
Start: 12:00 pm
'08 Election, the Supreme Court, and Reproductive Law and Policy
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:30 pm
ACS Roundtable with Prof. Meg Caldwell
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm
The Pen, The Sword, & The Waterboard: Ethical Lawyering in the "Global War on Terrorism"
Start: 1:30 pm
End: 5:00 pm
ACS Voting Rights Simulcast
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Prof. Tokaji discusses the Help America Vote Act of 2002
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
The Future of the Supreme Court
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:20 pm
The Constitution in 2020: ACS Fall 2008 Reading Group Information, Structures and the Constitution of American Society
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Michigan Supreme Court in Action: An Evening with Justice Marilyn J. Kelly
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Judicial Activism talk by Michigan Supreme Court Justice Kelly
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
ACS, FedSoc, & ACLU Karaoke Night
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Thursday October 30, 2008
Public Interest Career Week Panel
(all day)
Start: Oct 27 2008 - 9:00am
End: Oct 31 2008 - 6:00pm
Human Rights At Home: A Domestic Policy Blueprint for the New Administration
Start: 11:30 am
End: 1:30 pm
Electoral College Reform?
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Steven T. Wax
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
"Immigrants??? Rights as Human Rights: Current Issues in Immigration Law on the Eve of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal De
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
What Could the Bench look like Under the Next Administration?
Start: 12:15 pm
End: 1:30 pm
ACS Roundtable with Prof. Jeff Fisher
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Voting Rights in the 2008 Election: How Do We Ensure Every Vote Counts
Start: 12:40 pm
End: 1:40 pm
Immigration Relief for Domestic Violence Survivors
Start: 12:45 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Is our Electoral System Broken?
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
ProHapHo: Free Speech Special
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Duke Law Food Fiesta
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Brandon Mayfield v. US - A Discussion of the Case and the Patriot Act
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Voter Protection Training
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Friday October 31, 2008
Public Interest Career Week Panel
End: 6:00 pm