Join the Wayne Law American Constitution Society Student Chapter and the Michigan ACS Lawyer Chapter for an opportunity to hear from Michigan judges about their path to the bench. Light refreshments will be provided.
Featuring:
Hon. Elizabeth Welch, Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
Hon. Adrienne N. Young, Second District Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals
Hon. Daniel S. Korobkin, Third District Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals
Hon. Michelle Rick, Fourth District Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals
Hon. Mariam Bazzi, First District Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals
Join lawyers in the community for a virtual interest meeting to help revive the North Florida Lawyer Chapter. The meeting will include organizing a steering committee, planning a kickoff event, and learning more about ACS's work to advance democracy and defend the rule of law.
ACS is the nation's largest progressive legal network. We strive to ensure that the Constitution and the law work for all people by empowering leaders and shaping public discourse. We need lawyers like you more than ever!
While the Court typically rises before the July 4 holiday weekend and reconvenes on the first Monday in October, last summer, the Court broke with decades of tradition and continued to issue rulings throughout the summer almost until the beginning of the present October term. Many of these were rulings unsupported by opinions or plenary briefing and argument – emergency docket, or so-called “shadow docket” rulings. These rulings dealt with injunctions and some with novel issues regarding immigration, naturalization, and deportation. Join the South Florida ACS Lawyer Chapter for a Supreme Court Year in Review with Judge Milton Hirsch where we’ll discuss these cases, the shadow docket, and some of the fiery dissents.
Featuring:
Hon. Milton Hirsch, Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit Court, Miami, Florida
Lunch will begin at noon; the program will begin at 12:30 p.m.
GMU Law's American Constitution Society, Black Law Students Association, and Muslim Law Students Association welcome you to join us in the third and final installment of Professor Zamir Ben-Dan's lecture series, with this one focusing on orginialism and chattel slavery. Professor Ben-Dan’s scholarship argues that modern originalism is fundamentally flawed because it relies on a "hermeneutic of bad faith" that ignores the intentional, pro-slavery architecture of the Constitution. He contends that by prioritizing the "original public meaning" of a document designed to entrench chattel slavery, the legal movement functionally preserves racial hierarchy and validates a historical framework that excluded Black humanity.
Zoom link: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/96895514410?pwd=JbffmIlBy7EeRmwItXUIMIuEshb7KZ.1
Join lawyers in the community seeking to revive a Memphis Lawyer Chapter for a virtual interest meeting. During the meeting, we will discuss how ACS lawyer chapters function and what a lawyer chapter in Memphis could work towards. Come and learn more about ACS's work to advance democracy and defend the rule of law. All are welcome!
Join the ACS Houston Lawyer Chapter for a reception and conversation with ACS’s new president Phil Brest and former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Featuring:
Phil Brest, President, American Constitution Society
Alamdar Hamdani, Partner, Bracewell LLP, Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas
Thank you to Steptoe for generously hosting this program.
Prior to joining ACS in January, Phil Brest served as the White House Senior Counsel who directed the Biden administration’s judicial nominations where he helped lead efforts to confirm 235 Article III judges—the most by any Presidential administration in nearly five decades. Before joining the Biden White House, he spent six years working for the Senate Judiciary Committee, most recently as Chief Counsel for Nominations and Senior Advisor to U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill).
Alamdar Hamdani is a highly regarded trial lawyer with decades of national security and white-collar experience, including with sanctions, terrorism, fraud and a variety of other cross-border issues. He joined Bracewell following a 17-year career with the United States Department of Justice. He was most recently the Presidentially-Appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas — an office of 400 employees, including 200 federal prosecutors spread across six offices including Houston and offices along the border between Texas and Mexico
