Please join the ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association for an event featuring a shared reading of the Constitution, where different participants will read short sections. The goal is to inspire unity, rally spirits, and celebrate the Constitution by encouraging everyone to take an active role in bringing its words to life together.

Featuring:

Hon. Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye, Former Chief Justice of California

Dean Erwin Chemerinski, Dean, Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

Honey Mahogany, Director, Office of Transgender Initiatives, City and County of San Francisco

Join ACS @ "The U" for an Introductory Meeting and a Celebration of Constitution Day!

Constitution Day is celebrated on September 17th each year in the United States to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. It's also known as Citizenship Day. The day serves to honor the document that outlines the fundamental laws and rights of the nation and to acknowledge the importance of U.S. citizenship. 

Join Minnesota Law in celebrating the day with fun! Also, learn more about ACS at Minnesota Law School, our events and how you can get involved.  

Meet the officers and get on our mailing list to get the inside scoop on progressive events and opportunities happening on campus, in the state and on a national level.

Current Officers:

President:  Patience McHenry, 3L

Vice-President: Gabriela Llerna, 2L

Treasurer: Ellie Nagel-Bennett, 3L

Secretary: Taryn Miskowiec, 2L

DEI Coordinator: Dania Barrera Carrasco, 3L

Outreach Coordinator: Anneemarie Foy, 3L

Volunteer Coordinator: Blaise Knueppel, 3L

More about ACS:

The American Constitution Society (ACS) is a progressive legal organization focused on ensuring the law serves as a force for democracy, public interest, and improving people's lives. It aims to realize the promises of the Constitution by building a diverse legal community dedicated to defending democracy, equity, liberty, access to justice, and the rule of law. ACS has a large network of student and lawyer chapters across the United States and works to shape debates on key legal and public policy issues.

The mission of ACS is to support and advocate for laws and legal systems that redress the founding failures of our Constitution, strengthen our democratic legitimacy, uphold the rule of law, and realize the promise of equality for all, including people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and other historically excluded communities.

Join Us!

Questions?

Contact ACS Minnesota Law student chapter: acslaw@umn.edu

or reach out to the ACS chapter president, Patience Ranjani McHenry

ACS GSU College of Law Student Chapter plans to promote foster engagement with the students at GSU by tabling on Constitution Day. We plan to offer free coffee and donuts and give our pocket constitutions to students who stop by.

The American Constitution Society will host an event in the law commons to recognize Constitution Day. We will have a speaker, D.C. attorney Abbe Lowell, who will appear via Zoom to talk with the students. Lunch will be provided.

The e-board tabled all day in preparation of a Constitution Day event which we helped organize and co-sponsored. The lunch-time event consisted of a panel of faculty who discussed recent Supreme Court cases. At our table, we gave out wrist bands, stickers, ACS luggage tags, pocket-sized Constitutions and Declarations of Independence, and even feather quill pens! We also had a copy of the Constitution that students were able to sign themselves. Between the tabling and Supreme Court review, there were many great discussions about the Constitution and the current state politics and the judiciary.

Judge Gammage will join us for lunch to discuss expungement, including how he came to start the expungement externship at NDLS and how he came to care so much about expungement as a legal issue, and his pathway to the bench, including his work with the prosecutor's office, the public defender's office, and the City of South Bend.