Sahng-Ah Yoo was an ACS Student Board Member, is a former student chapter president at NYU School of Law and ACS Next Generation Leader.
Yoo is currently at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP working on complex litigation and antitrust matters. Her prior legal experience includes amicus brief writing, direct client representations, and appellate review in areas of constitutional, federal employment, immigration, family, and criminal law. Yoo is an alumna of the Sonia and Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program and the American Bar Association’s Judicial Internship Opportunity Program.
Prior to law school, Yoo earned an M.S in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford, where she wrote her thesis on the personal and institutional psychology of police brutality. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University, producing a thesis that studied the effects of social relations on cognition, memory, and automatic processing.
Yoo debuted at Carnegie Hall on piano at age 9 and violin at age 11.
Peter M. Shane is the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law Emeritus, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, NYU Law.
His areas of expertise include Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Legislation and Regulation, Law and the Presidency,
Peter is also a frequent op-ed writer, contributing essays to numerous outlets including Slate, the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Bloomberg BNA, and Huffington Post.
Peter received his A.B. degree from Harvard College and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Professor Shane clerked for the Hon. Alvin B. Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He served as an attorney- adviser in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel and as an assistant general counsel in the Office of Management and Budget, before beginning to teach full-time.
Adegbile leads the antidiscrimination practice at Wilmer Hale.
Franita Tolson is the Dean and the Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law and an expert in the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history, and employment discrimination. Tolson is an active member of ACS and has demonstrated a deep commitment to its amplifying its network beyond the national nonprofit’s West Coast affiliates.
Previously, Tolson was the Betty T. Ferguson Professor of Voting Rights at Florida State University College of Law and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. Tolson’s research has been featured in the nation’s leading law reviews, including The Notre Dame Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Boston University Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, and she has served as a contributor and issue expert for various media organizations, including Reuters, Bloomberg Law, The Hill, and HuffPost.
Tolson clerked for both the Honorable Ann Claire Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Chief Judge Ruben Castillo of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She earned her B.A. from Truman State University and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Neil Siegel is the David W. Ichel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Duke University School of Law and Director of the school’s D.C. Summer Institute on Law and Policy. Siegel is a member of the ACS Board of Academic Advisors.
Siegel has been active with ACS for more than a decade, including as a speaker at its National Convention and chapter events. He serves on the organization’s Board of Academic Advisors and as the faculty Advisor for its Student Chapter at Duke University School of Law.
Siegel researches and teaches in the areas of U.S. constitutional law, constitutional politics, and constitutional theory, and has published work in law reviews and journals across the country. Additionally, he served as special counsel to U.S. Senator Christopher Coons during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Justice Brett Kavanaugh and advised the Senator during Justice Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing the prior year.
Siegel clerked for both Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and was a Bristow Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice, under Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from Duke University and holds a J.D. and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
