ACS Board of Directors Member Shira A. Scheindlin authored “Trump’s judges will call the shots for years to come. The judicial system is broken” in The Guardian. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Jamal Greene testified at the House Judiciary Committee hearings on Judicial Ethics and Transparency: The Limits of Existing Statutes and Rules. 

ACS Next Generation Leader Taru Taylor authored “The Constitutional Case for Issue 24 and Citizen-led Police Accountability” in Cleveland.com.  

ACS Vice President of Strategic Engagement Jill Dash and ACS South Florida Chair Faudlin Pierre were quoted in “When Will Senate Democrats Ditch Blue Slips for Good?” in Balls and Strikes. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “Nothing ‘qualified’ about immunity as SCOTUS sides with police in two cases” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.    

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors Member Chuck Smith was awarded the Champion of Justice Award from the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. 

ACS Arizona State University Student Chapter Co-Presidents Freeman Halle and Maria McCabe were chosen for the International Rule of Law and Security Program 2021-2022 Fellows Cohort. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “U.S. Supreme Court Considers Taking up Case Challenging Texas’ Abortion Ban” in Essence. 

ACS Next Generation Leader Conchita Cruz and ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors Member Jill Habig were selected as Emerson Collective Dial Fellows.  

ACS Next Generation Leader Jaylin McClinton was selected for The Appellate Project’s Mentorship Program 2021-2022 cohort. 

ACS Former Faculty Advisor for Suffolk Law School Sharmila Murthy was appointed to White House council on Environmental Quality.  

ACS Faculty Advisor for Chicago-Kent College of Law Carolyn Shapiro was appointed to the Illinois Task Force on Constitutional Rights and Remedies. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Leader Dan Cotter authored “Kavanaugh is back in person, and top court is busy with first round of cases” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.   

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors Member Alison Siegler authored “End Mandatory Minimums” in the Brennan Center’s series, The Era of Punitive Excess. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps was quoted in “John Roberts is no longer the leader of his own court. Who, then, controls it?” in The Guardian.  

ASC Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin appeared on “Battle over Texas abortion law leaves Black people behind” on MSNBC.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member David Frederick was quoted in “One Justice Missing and Only One Masked, the Supreme Court Returns” in The New York Times. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Stephen Vladeck was interviewed in “Examining the Supreme Court's use of emergency applications” for NPR’s Morning Edition.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors Member Alison Siegler was featured in “Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes” in The New Yorker.  

Minneapolis-St. Paul Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors Member Hon. Keith Ellison will be awarded the Legacy of Justice Award by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.  

 ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Leader Dan Cotter authored “Clarence Thomas speaks: Justice finds voice as SCOTUS term begins” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.  

ACS Next Generation Leaders Francesco Arreaga and Megan Raymond were featured in The Berkeley Law magazine, Transcript. 

ACS Next Generation Leader Rosann Mariappuram was quoted in “Jane's Due Process Continues to Help Teens in Texas Access Abortion” in Teen Vogue.  

ACS Faculty Advisor for Loyola Law School Jessica Levinson authored "Supreme Court will likely kill Roe v. Wade and gun restriction laws this term" in MSNBC. 

ACS DC Lawyer Chapter Board Member Akin Adepoju was awarded the Federal Defender Service Gideon's Trumpet Award.  

ACS University of Iowa President Jacob Skold authored “If It Walks Like a Partisan Court, and Talks Like a Partisan Court…" in The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice. 

ACS Member Deborah Caldwell-Stone was quoted in “During Banned Books Week, Readers Explore What It Means To Challenge Texts in” on NPR.  

ACS Member Jarrett Adams appeared on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari for a segment on “After wrongful conviction, man becomes civil rights lawyer in quest for justice.” 

ACS Members John F. Kowal and Wilfred U. Codrington III co-authored “History Teaches that Constitutional Reforms Come in Waves. We May Be Approaching One Now” in Politico. 

 

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “Treat Stealthing Like the Crime That It Is Already” in the Cut. 

 ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray testified at  the House Committee hearing: “A State of Crisis: Examining the Urgent Need to Protect and Expand Abortion Rights and Access.” 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored  “Evidence: Court is ‘partisan hacks’” in The Pantagraph. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Steve Vladeck testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: “Texas’s Unconstitutional Abortion Ban and the Role of the Shadow Docket.” 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Leader Dan  Cotter authored “Supreme Court justices protesteth too much about their impartiality” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

 

ACS Board of Directors Member Franita Tolson testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee: “Restoring the Voting Rights Act: Combating Discriminatory Abuses;” and was quoted in "Ted Cruz makes a Texas-size mess on voter ID and racism" in The Washington Post. 

ACS Director of Policy and Program Debra Perlin authored "The Supreme Court is Giving George W. Bush the Last Laugh on Guantanamo” in Politico. 

ACS Washington DC Lawyer Chapter Leader Marissa Ditkowsky was quoted in "Anti-Abortion Bills and the Hidden Attack on Disability Rights" in Medium. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored "Justices take to the talk circuit as new fall term approaches” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.   

ACS Member Jarrett Adams was featured in Lawyer Recalls Winning His First Case in Same State Courts Where He Was Wrongfully Convicted in People. 

ACS Member Theo Lesczynski won the 2021 Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service awarded by The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.