Please join the ACS Saint Louis Lawyer Chapter, the ACS WashU Law Student Chapter, and the Saint Louis University School of Law 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. For decades, affirmative action reshaped not just American higher education but the broader society, opening doors that had been closed for centuries and transforming who entered the pathways to power. But the Supreme Court in 2023 killed affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a decision hailed by the right as a triumph of conservative colorblindness and decried by the left as requiring the end of racial equity. Both sides, Yale Law School professor Justin Driver contends, are wrong. Far from a mere eulogy, Driver’s book provides a blueprint for the future—a rallying cry for citizens to forge new paths to inclusion. 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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HLC ACS will be hosting a fireside chat about diversity and the judicial clerkship hiring process with Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu of the Supreme Court of California. We will co sponsor with Harvard Black Law Students Association and the Harvard Women's Law Association.
This is our first event of the school year, so we will be introducing the board to the incoming 1L class and continue to try and build a community amongst the student body. We will be introducing our plan for the school year and solicit recommendations from the students on how to make this club work best for them. Of course, we want to show them a great time and provide food (In-n-out) in order to build our reputation as a welcoming and positive group in our school community.
This is an event in collaboration with Federalist Society. It will be a professor led panel about the importance of the Constitution & upholding it's purposes.
Join us for a mixer to kick off the school year! This event is for anyone interested in ACS and is a great opportunity for 1Ls to meet current members. You can contact etsm@uoregon.edu or dabneym@uorgon.edu if you have questions or concerns!
Judge Oetken will speak on the challenges of being a judge and issues facing the American Judiciary, and has confirmed their attendance. He will also speak about his life and experience and views from the bench. J. Paul Oetken, is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is the first openly gay man to be confirmed as an Article III judge.
