News & Media Information
New ACS Issue Brief Offers Ways To Address 'ID Divide'
See ACS press release here.
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Press Releases, Advisories and Statements (PDF)
November 2008
- New ACS Issue Brief Offers Ways To Address 'ID Divide' (11-10-2008) -- Press Release
- ACS To Preview Major Supreme Court First Amendment Case (11-04-2008) -- Press Release
- ACS Hosts Post-Election Call on Voting Issues (11-05-2008) -- Press Release
October 2008
- ACS Issue Brief Promotes Transition Ideas For Ending Workplace Discrimination (10-24-2008) -- Press Release
- ACS Issue Brief Offers Ways to Bolster Office of Special Counsel (10-21-2008) -- Press Release
- ACS Reveals Proposals For Reforming Law and Justice Policies in a New Administration (10-15-2008) -- Press Release
September 2008
- New Study Shows Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs Do Poorly (9-18-2008) -- Press Release
- Latest Issue of ACS-Sponsored Harvard Journal Addresses Responses to Hurricane Katrina and Upcoming Presidential Transition (9-15-2008) -- Press Advisory
- ACS Hosts Press Briefing on The New FBI Guidelines and the Risk of Racial Profiling (9-3-2008) -- Press Advisory
August 2008
- ACS Supreme Court Review Scheduled for September 24, 2008 (8-27-2008) -- Press Advisory
- ACS Issue Brief Critiquing NLRB Decision Declaring Graduate Teaching and Student Research Assistants Are Not Employees (8-20-2008) -- Press Release
- ACS Criticizes Attorney General's Inaction on Justice Department Hiring Scandal (8-13-2008) -- Press Release
July 2008
- U.S. Supreme Court Experts Available for End of Term Analysis (7-25-2008) -- Press Advisory
- Video Message from ACS Executive Director Lisa Brown on Allegations of Politicized Hiring by the U.S. Department of Justice (7-10-2008) -- Statement
- ACS Holds U.S. Supreme Court Review (7-01-2008) -- Press Advisory
June 2008
- ACS Criticizes Justice Department Use of Politics in Hiring for Career Honors, Intern Programs (6-24-2008) -- Press Release
- ACS Honors Writing Competition Winners at ACS National Convention (6-18-2008) -- Press Release
- Former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder Blasts Administration's War on Terror at ACS National Convention (6-14-2008) -- Press Release
- Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy Says U.S. Supreme Court Rulings Adversely Impact Americans' Well-Being in Speech at ACS National Convention (6-13-2008) -- Press Release
- U.S. Compliance with International Agreement on Racial Discrimination Under a Microscope at ACS Hill Briefing (6-08-2008) -- Press Release
- U.S. Senator Richard Durbin, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn and ACS Executive Director Lisa Brown Address Chicago Area Attorneys (6-05-2008) -- Press Advisory
ACS Publications
The American Constitution Society places high priority on making scholarly output accessible to a wide audience. To transmit these ideas as broadly as possible, ACS publishes a number of journals and papers. These include: the Harvard Law & Policy Review, the official journal of the American Constitution Society, and Advance, the journal of the ACS Issue Groups, to Issue Briefs, event transcripts and blogs.
Harvard Law and Policy Review. A semi-annual journal founded and edited by students at Harvard Law School, it serves as the official journal of ACS. Authors of articles in HLPR have included distinguished policymakers, judges, scholars and others.
ACS Issue Briefs. ACS Issue Briefs are accessible white papers that offer insights and proposals on legal and policy topics within the scope of the ACS Issue and Working Groups. They are distributed widely to ACS members, the progressive legal community, the media and policymakers. ACS Issue Briefs are authored by scholars, practitioners, policymakers and others in the ACS community with valuable ideas to share.
Advance: The Journal of the ACS Issue Groups. Advance features a selection of Issue Briefs released in the preceding months or a series of papers on a particular subject emanating from an ACS conference or symposium.
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society. ACSBlog is a source for news, analysis and opinion on today's important legal and policy issues. From previews of the week's congressional activities to analysis of important Supreme Court decisions, and with links to new legal resources and news and informed opinion on critical legal and policy issues, ACSBlog features articles by practitioners, scholars and policymakers. ACSBlog also provides special series, such as blog posts from Guantanamo Bay, debates on current controversies, exploration of big-picture legal issues, coverage of major legal and policy news and reports from ACS events.
ACS Multimedia Library. In an effort to share the benefits of ACS events more widely, the ACS Multimedia Library contains videos, transcripts and podcasts from an array of ACS events that take place in Washington and across the nation. Events include conferences and symposia, ACS's National Convention, Supreme Court Previews and Reviews and chapter programming.
ACS Annual Report. In a remarkably short time, ACS has grown from a small student club at a single law school into the nation's fastest-growing organization of progressive lawyers, academics, judges, policymakers and law students, with a strong presence in the nation's law schools and major legal markets.
