This piece is part of a blog series highlighting key legal issues facing Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.  In 1942 Fred Korematsu of San Leandro, California, Minoru Yasui of Portland, Oregon, and Gordon Hirabayashi of Seattle, Washington, defied President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, under which authority nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were removed from […]

Please Join the ACS Washington State Lawyer Chapter for a book talk with Stephen Vladeck to discuss his latest book, The Shadow Docket, and share an urgent call to hold the Supreme Court and its inner workings accountable. Register here.

Please join the ACS Washington State Lawyer Chapter as we host Evelyn Atkinson for a virtual discussion about her paper “Telegraph Torts: The Lost Lineage of the Public Service Corporation." In this paper, Atkinson, a Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, details the emotional responsibilities held by certain public service corporations in the late […]

Join the ACS Washington DC Lawyer Chapter and the Washington DC chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (DC LERA) for lunch and a conversation with Stephen Silvia, who will be speaking about his new book, The UAW’s Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants.  Featuring: Stephen Silvia, Professor, School of International Service, […]

Please join the ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter for a book talk with  Supreme Court expert Stephen Vladeck—author of the new book The Shadow Docket—exposes the Court’s increasing reliance on secretive judicial processes that permit typically public hearings and discussions to occur behind closed doors. Having argued multiple cases before the Supreme Court himself, Vladeck […]

This piece is part of a blog series highlighting key legal issues facing Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.  At our office, the calls continue to come in. There was the Chinese woman whose neighbor, a local law enforcement officer, called her a ch*nk and waged an extended campaign of harassment to push her out […]

Please join the ACS New York Lawyer Chapter for an in-person event with CNN's Supreme Court Analyst Stephen Vladeck, for the release of his new book The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. Joining Stephen in conversation is leading expert in family law, constitutional law, […]

The ACS Washington, DC and Capitol Hill Lawyer Chapters invite all attendees of the 2023 ACS National Convention to continue Friday night's festivities by joining us for a late-night member social just steps away from the White House at The Hamilton. All are welcome (including folks not attending the ACS National Convention).

Join the American Constitution Society for the premier progressive legal gathering of the year. The 2023 ACS National Convention will bring together lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, activists, and policymakers to address some of the most urgent and challenging issues confronting our nation. For complete information on convention speakers, program, and the latest updates, visit […]

During the October 2021 session, the United States Supreme Court ruled that qualified immunity almost universally protects officers to use deadly force whenever they have apprehension for their lives. In making these rulings, has SCOTUS gone too far and made qualified immunity into strict qualified immunity? This panel discusses the history and expansion of qualified […]