On October 8, 2025, please join the ACS Nashville Chapter at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC for a discussion with Stephen Vladeck, The Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts at Georgetown University Law Center, on the 2025 Supreme Court Term.

 

Vladeck is author of the New York Times-bestselling book, “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic,” which has won numerous awards, including the 2024 Order of the Coif Book Award. Vladeck is also a highly regarded appellate advocate, having argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous lower federal civilian and military courts.

 

He has received numerous awards for his influential and widely cited legal scholarship, his prolific popular writing, his teaching, and his service to the legal profession—including the 2024 University of Texas President’s Research Impact Award and his selection by the Order of the Coif to serve as its Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2025.

 

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

21 Platform Way South

Suite 3500

Nashville, TN 37203

Lunch will be provided.

Thank you to our sponsors:

Benefactor: Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Sherrard Roe Voight & Harbinson, PLC

Donor: Stranch, Jennings & Garvey, PLLC

Friend: Charles Bone, Southern Environmental Law Center, Stephen Zralek, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association

Community Sponsors: Rickard Masker, PLC and Spragens Law

Individual Sponsors: Anne Davis, Tracy George, Grace Stranch

 

The ACS Nashville Chapter is grateful to Bass, Berry & Sims PLC for hosting this year’s signature event. For sponsorship inquiries, please email Robert Williams at rwilliams@acslaw.org.

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We will be hosting a discussion with NJ State Attorney General Jeremy Feigenbaum on Trump v. CASA and states' efforts to fight back against the Administration.

Co-sponsors are HLS Lambda, and the Harvard Law and Policy Review.

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Join us for a compelling panel discussion featuring leaders and advocates from the Indiana Innocence Project and the Marion County Public Defender Agency, as they explore the challenges and triumphs of post-conviction advocacy and indigent defense. This conversation will spotlight the critical role of public defenders and innocence organizations in confronting wrongful convictions and advancing systemic reform. Moderated by Nicole Salet, this panel will foster dialogue on advocacy, collaboration, and the pursuit of justice for the wrongfully convicted.

Panelists include:

Victoria Bailey Casanova, Legal Director of the Indiana Innocence Project.

Marla Sandys, Board Member of the Indiana Innocence Project.

Debra Des Vignes, Executive Director of the Indiana Innocence Project and founder of the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop.

Valena Elizabeth Beety, Board Member of the Indiana Innocence Project and Professor at Maurer.

Molly Crow, Major Felony Supervisor at the Marion County Public Defender’s Agency and Maurer graduate.

NDLS ACS will host Professor Andy Koppelman for a discussion on how the Supreme Court has been shaping the law of religious liberty in the last several terms in a way that is seemingly inconsistent with precedent.

This event will feature a multidisciplinary discussion of Chiles v. Salazar, the legal landscape of conversion therapy, and the psychological perspective on conversion therapy. The event will feature Ryan Sallans, an author and ACLU activist, Mackenzie Locke, a Policy Fellow with OutNebraska, Dr. Debra Hope, the Aaron Douglas Professor at the UNL Department of Psychology, and Professor Kyle Langvardt, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law.