Please join the ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter in welcoming Justin Driver, who will discuss his new book The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education. The Fall of Affirmative Action provides a blueprint for the future—a rallying cry for citizens to forge new paths to inclusion and push back against the notion that racial equality is doomed. The death of affirmative action, Driver insists, need not mean the death of opportunity.
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Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of The Schoolhouse Gate, named a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. An elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, he was appointed by President Biden to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court.
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David Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and he was a Marshall Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. His main interests are in constitutional law and related subjects. He is also the author of The Living Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2010), the co-author of Equality and Democracy: The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the Warren Court (Oxford University Press, 2019), and a co-editor of the Supreme Court Review.
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ACS Election before and then Professor Garrett Epps will be discussing the constitutionality of birthright citizenship challenges and the upcoming Supreme Court docket with students. As well as being a professor at numerous institutions, Professor Epps served for ten years as Supreme Court Correspondent of The Atlantic, publishing more than 400 essays analyzing the Supreme Court’s evolving jurisprudence and constitutional issues generally. His scholarship has appeared in prominent law journals, including Duke Law Journal, North Carolina Law Review, and American University Law Review
We will be hosting a lunch talk with Chief Judge James Boasberg of D.D.C. on clerking, judicial service, and the D.C. District Court. We anticipate 80 attendees. Co-sponsor is the Harvard Law and Policy Review.
Professor Stephen Feldman will discuss his upcoming book coming out in January, 2024, Who Belongs: White Christian Nationalism and the Roberts Court.
Stephen M. Feldman has been the Jerry W. Housel / Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science since 2002. He teaches classes in Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence and has published numerous books and articles in these fields. In 2021, Professor Feldman published Pack the Court! A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion (Temple University Press).
This event will involve UND Law students gathering in a room to watch a recording of the ACS National Supreme Court Preview 2025-2026 that happened on September 29th, which featured a diverse group of constitutional and legal experts offering their insights into what we can expect from the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court Term that begins on October 6th. The description for that preview is as follows:
Last Term, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court demonstrated that it remains committed to reshaping the law to fit the demands of the conservative legal movement while frequently using the so-called "Shadow Docket" to enable some of the most harmful policies of the Trump administration without explanation. At a time when the Supreme Court has allowed the rule of law to be stretched to the breaking point, the significance of the upcoming Term cannot be overstated. What can we expect as the justices prepare to once again weigh in on the power of the President and the civil and constitutional rights of voters, racial and sexual minorities, immigrants, students, the criminally accused, and other vulnerable communities?
In this event, we will be serving lunch. RSVP is not required. There will be no featured speakers, other than the ones who spoke in the National Preview event recording.
ACS will be hosting a coffee chat with Judge Boasberg on clerking and his judicial experiences.
