ACS Chicago to Honor Distinguished University of Chicago Law School Scholar Geoffrey R. Stone

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Contact: Nancy Rodriguez media@acslaw.org

CHICAGO — In honor of the 20^th Anniversary of the American Constitution Society Chicago Lawyer Chapter’s Legal Legends Luncheon and the critical contributions that the award’s namesake provided towards the Chapter’s founding and growth and ACS’s mission, the Chicago Lawyer Chapter is proud to announce the creation of the Geoffrey R. Stone Award.

The award will be presented at the 2025 Legal Legends Luncheon on September 10 to its inaugural recipient, the namesake of the award, Geoffrey R. Stone.

Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, member of the ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors, and former Chair of the ACS National Board of Directors. He has also helped in the organizing of every ACS Chicago Legal Legends Luncheon.

The Geoffrey R. Stone Award is established to recognize progressive scholars who demonstrate those qualities exemplified by Professor Geoffrey R. Stone: scholarly excellence, the ability to imagine how society might be more just and more equal, and the determination to use the law and one’s scholarship to creatively and strategically make the imagined real.

At the 2025 Legal Legends Luncheon, the ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter will also honor recipients of the 2025 Abner J. Mikva and Ruth Goldman Awards.

The luncheon’s keynote speaker is well-known political commentator, writer, and author Elie Mystal. Mystal is the justice correspondent and columnist at The Nation and New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution and Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America.

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