ACS Board of Advisors member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Justice Breyer should learn from Justice Ginsburg’s mistake – and retire now” in The Washington Post.

ACS Faculty Advisor at the University of Kentucky College of Law Joshua Douglas authored “Republicans aren’t just making it harder to vote. They’re going after election officials, too.” in The Washington Post.

ACS Faculty Advisor at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School – Tampa Bay Joseline Hardrick received the George Edgecomb Bar Association’s 2021 Delano Stewart Award for Diversity.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “SCOTUS Hears Last Oral Argument in ‘Relatively Slow’ 2020 Term” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

ACS George Washington University Law School Student Chapter Leader Iris Maute-Gibson is a recipient of the Equal Justice Works 2021 Regional Public Interest Award.

ACS member Kathleen Clyde will serve as Co-Chair of the Ohio Citizens’ Redistricting Commission.

ACS Board of Directors member Melissa Murray was quoted in The New York Times on Derek Chauvin’s Lawyer requesting a new trial.

ACS Board of Advisors member Erwin Chemerinsky authored an article in ABA Journal on how the decision in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District both clarifies the law of personal jurisdiction and “raises many questions that will confront lower state and federal courts and ultimately need Supreme Court resolution.”

ACS Board of Advisors member Dawn Smalls was named a “Northeast Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Steve Vladeck authored an op-ed in MSNBC about how Republicans’ arguments that court packing is “unconstitutional” is wrong.

ACS Senior Director of Policy and Program Christopher Wright Durocher authored an article in Law360 on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Corlett noting that “a decision by the court that weakens gun regulations could mix with the court’s existing precedents regarding police use of force to form a particularly lethal cocktail for police violence against Black people.”

ACS State Attorney General Advisory Committee Member Terri Gerstein authored an article in The Saint Louis University Law Journal describing and analyzing “the considerable surge in state and local government activity protecting workers in recent years.”

ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter Board member Mel Barnes was quoted in the Wisconsin Examiner about election litigation in Wisconsin noting that “[i]t’s a huge volume and a lot of them are problematic. Wisconsin is very much a part of the national trends.”

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. and Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of Chehalis Reservation.

ACS member Rick Hasen was interviewed on the Supreme Myths podcast about voting rights and suppression, elections, and the Scalia myth.

ACS Board of Directors member Alejandra Castillo was nominated by President Biden to serve as Assistant Secretary for Economic Development in the Department of Commerce.

ACS Board of Advisors member Dennis Herrera was nominated by San Francisco Mayor London Breed to serve as General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

ACS Board of Advisors member Paul Smith co-authored an article in Daily Kos to reiterate the “racial bias and anti-voter tint” in Georgia’s new election law.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Justin Driver was quoted in The Washington Post about Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., “the most momentous case in more than five decades involving student speech” at the Supreme Court.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Steve Vladeck authored an op-ed in MSNBC noting the importance of pushing through meaningful reforms to rein in the growing unilateral powers of the president and arguing that the best person to lead this effort is President Biden.

ACS Director of Chapters Peggy Li authored an op-ed in The Washington Monthly about the surge of violence against AAPI communities and the need for a sustained national dialogue “to examine how racism, white supremacy, and misogyny manifest to oppress, harm, and kill those who are deemed as ‘Other.’”

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin recapping Jones v. Mississippi and Whatley v. Warden.

ACS member Nora Benavidez was interviewed on NPR’s Here & Now about new state laws that criminalize various protest tactics and “protect drivers who unintentionally injure or kill protesters with their cars.”

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Leah Litman was chosen by students at the University of Michigan Law School to receive the 2021 L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Steve Vladeck authored an op-ed in MSNBC about “Why the GOP is so adamantly against D.C. statehood" looking at both Constitutional text and D.C. history.

ACS Faculty Advisor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law Jessie Hill was quoted in Talking Points Memo about the Supreme Court’s silence on abortion.

ACS Co-Faculty Advisor at Loyola Law School Justin Levitt has joined the Biden-Harris administration as a senior policy adviser on voting issues.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about the use of the shadow docket in an appeal of a “California ban prohibiting the gathering of more than three families in a single home for religious ceremonies.”

ACS Knoxville Lawyer Chapter President Luke Ihnen was named a 2021-2022 Adjunct Professor for the University of Tennessee College of Law.

ACS member John Pollock was quoted in The Appeal discussing a Maryland bill that would provide access to counsel for low-income tenants facing eviction noting that “Momentum is building to ensure every tenant has a right to counsel.”

ACS member Elliot Williams contributed to an op-ed in CNN about how the Chauvin trial was really a test case for society—a test of “what happens when overwhelming evidence is set against a frustrating legal and cultural reality.”

Former ACS Board Chair Pamela Karlan, ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors member Joan Haratani, and ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors member Joyce Hughes were awarded the 2021 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award by the American Bar Association.

Former ACS Board Chair Pamela Karlan was quoted in Law360 in an article, titled, “DOJ Civil Rights Head Says LGBT, Military Bias Top Priorities.”

ACS Next Generation Leader and Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors member Jess Pezley and ACS member Kevin Díaz were quoted in Compassion & Choices about the recent ruling regarding  the “constitutionality of an Idaho law provision that the State interpreted to require pregnant individuals to receive life-sustaining treatment, even if it violated the person’s advance directive.”

ACS Faculty Advisor at Loyola Law School Jessica Levinson authored an op-ed in MSNBC about how a Supreme Court ruling on a California restriction on in-home gatherings, as it applied to religious activities, previews the impact Trump has and will have on the federal bench.

ACS Faculty Advisor at the University of Colorado Law School Suzette Malveaux was profiled in Essence, featuring quotes from ACS Member Angela Onwuachi-Willig, about possibly becoming the first Black woman and the first individual who identifies as LGBTQ+ to be appointed to the Tenth Circuit.

ACS Assistant Director of Chapters Chris Lin was appointed to the Philadelphia Millennial Advisory Committee within the Mayor’s Office of Youth Engagement.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about the calls for Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from the Supreme Court.

ACS Notre Dame Law School Student Chapter President Jenae Longenecker was selected as a 2021 Summer Fellow at the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame.

ACS University of Connecticut School of Law Student Chapter Co-President Ree Morrow was profiled in The National Jurist on winning the Hinkle Entrepreneurship Competition with her proposal,  “The Road that Connects.”

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Jamal Greene was interviewed on the Commonwealth Club of California Podcast about his new book, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart, and the need to recouple rights for all with justice for all.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Steve Vladeck was quoted in CNN noting how “Justice Thomas's opinion represents the first time that we've seen a Supreme Court Justice appear to endorse the view  . . . that private social media platforms should potentially be subject to significant government regulation notwithstanding the First Amendment.”

ACS Next Generation Leader Jay Forester and ACS member Matt Haynie were selected as Rising Stars by Super Lawyers.

ACS Faculty Advisor at the University of Kentucky College of Law Josh Douglas was quoted in the Courier-Journal about the Kentucky legislature’s expansion of voting access during a time when partisan battles over voting rights are taking place across the country.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on whether the NCAA eligibility rules regarding compensation of student-athletes violate federal antitrust laws.

ACS Columbus Lawyer Chapter Co-President Kyle Strickland was interviewed in Fox 28 Columbus and highlighted in The Columbus Dispatch about his appointment to the city’s first ever Civilian Police Review Board.

ACS member Rick Hasen was interviewed on The Dan Abrams Podcast about Georgia’s new voting law and how legal challenges might affect the legislation and what issues may come up in court.

ACS member Alexis Hoag was interviewed on CBS This Morning about the Derek Chauvin trial.

The ACS Student Chapter at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law was awarded “Best New Student Organization” and “Best Collaboration of the Year” alongside the Lambda Law Society for their event, “Box v. Henderson Case Discussion: Equality for Indiana Families.”