ACS Member News: Week of March 29, 2021

ACS Board of Directors member Peter Shane authored an op-ed in The Regulatory Review about “the reach and limitations of presidential power.”

ACS Board of Advisors members Dawn Smalls and Victor Kovner, and ACS members Jerry Goldfeder, Deborah Archer, and Michael Waldman were listed in City & State New York’s The 2021 Law Power 100 List.

ACS Board of Advisors member Geoffrey Stone will receive the University of Chicago’s 2021 Norman Maclean Award for “extraordinary contributions to teaching and to the student experience within the University community.”

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Genevieve Lakier was quoted in The Chicago Tribune regarding the right of social media platforms to ban whomever they want and noted her “alarm[] at the idea that companies providing the basic tools to run a website  . . . could be pressured to withhold their services.”

ACS Houston Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors member Robert Landicho was named to the 2021 Texas Rising Stars List by Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters).

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about how the government is changing its positions in Supreme Court cases with the arrival of President Joe Biden.

ACS University of Virginia School of Law Board of Directors member Morgan Maloney co-authored an article in the Richmond Public Interest Law Review titled, “Remembering the Ladies: Taking a Look at Some of Virginia's Most Notable Female Leaders as Virginia Fights for Recognition of the Equal Rights Amendment.”

ACS member Fatima Goss Graves was quoted in Fortune about the importance of looking at gender wage gap numbers alongside unemployment rates to have a more nuanced understanding of the wage gap.

ACS member Rick Hasen was quoted in Vox about Georgia’s new, restrictive voting law noting that it makes “election administration even more partisan” and that this is a “move in exactly the wrong direction.”

ACS member Renato Mariotti was quoted in WBEZ Chicago about New York City prosecutors investigating Donald Trump querying Cook County officials about property records involving the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago.

ACS member Christopher Poulos authored an op-ed in Crosscut about House Bill 1078, which would restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated people.

ACS Member News: Week of March 22, 2021

ACS Faculty Advisor at the University of Colorado Law School Suzette Malveaux was interviewed by CPR about being the only full professor at her law school that is a Black woman.

ACS Faculty Advisor at the University of Arkansas Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law Joshua Silverstein was awarded the Faculty Excellence Award for Public Service.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about an arbitration provision on Major League Baseball tickets.

ACS member Jarrett Adams was profiled in Black Enterprise about his journey from being wrongfully convicted and serving ten years in prison to becoming an attorney.

ACS member Nora Benavidez was awarded the Freedom of Information Award by the Society of Professional Journalists Greater Los Angeles chapter.

ACS member MiAngel Cody was profiled in EurWeb about a new documentary surrounding her work and the work of the Decarceration Collective.

ACS Member News: Week of March 15, 2021

ACS Board of Directors member Franita Tolson was quoted in preLaw about the new required course on “Race, Racism and the Law” at the USC Gould School of Law.

ACS Next Generation Leader Ashland Johnson was profiled in Forbes about her work helping sports entities implement diversity and trans inclusion programs.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about how Chief Justice John Roberts was the lone dissenter in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski.

ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors member Jill Habig wrote a tribute to Vice President Kamala Harris in Glamour noting that her experience working for Kamala taught her “what makes a good public servant.”

ACS member Rachel Wainer Apter has been nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

ACS member Elise Boddie authored an op-ed in NJ.com about COVID-19’s devastation on Black and Brown communities.

ACS Member News: Week of March 8, 2021

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Reva Siegel and ACS Faculty Advisor at Duke University School of Law Joseph Blocher co-authored an article in The Atlantic about the need for America to regulate guns not only to protect life, but also to protect its citizens’ equal freedoms to speak, assemble, worship, and vote without fear.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Steve Vladeck authored an article in The Atlantic noting that, “[f]or a Court whose legitimacy depends largely on the public’s perception of its integrity, the growth of unseen, unsigned, and unexplained decisions that disrupt life for millions of Americans can only be a bad thing.”

ACS Next Generation Leader Jessica Jackson was selected as a Class of 2021 Young Global Leader.

ACS Next Generation Leader Austin Ownbey was interviewed for the Getting Real Video Podcast Series about his role at Foley Hoag LLP as an antitrust specialist.

ACS Associate Director of Chapters Jordan Blisk was recognized by The National LGBT Bar Association as one of its “Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40 – Class of 2021.”

ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter President Jeff Mandell co-authored an op-ed in CNN about the need to craft another exception to the filibuster for “ethics, rule of law and fair election provisions that are central to our democratic republic.”

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin discussing the Court’s “pushing back of matters to be considered in conference,” which he calls the “conference docket.”

ACS Washington DC Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors member Marissa Ditkowsky was quoted in Wired about remote courtrooms, disparities in access to technology and access to reliable broadband for disabled folks, and other accessibility issues when limiting in-person proceedings.

ACS New York Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Joel Dodge co-authored an op-ed in CNN about what the Biden-Harris administration can do to combat child poverty.

ACS Member News: Week of March 1, 2021

ACS Board of Directors member Melissa Murray was on MSNBC explaining what the public will see or find out as a result of the Supreme Court ending Trump’s efforts to keep his tax returns a secret.

ACS Board of Advisors member Erwin Chemerinsky authored a piece in the ABA Journal about how voting rights cases before the Supreme Court could have profound effects on future elections.

ACS Board of Advisors member Linda Greenhouse authored an op-ed in The New York Times reviewing the Supreme Court’s rejection of “Pennsylvania Republicans’ after-the-fact effort to invalidate late-arriving mailed ballots” and previewing the Court’s upcoming voting rights cases.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Leah Litman co-authored an op-ed in The New York Times on whether the Supreme Court will gut the Voting Rights Act.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about the Supreme Court’s continual use of the shadow docket.

ACS Knoxville Lawyer Chapter Chair Luke Ihnen authored an article in DICTA about Knoxville’s first Black lawyers.

ACS San Diego Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors member Johanna Schiavoni authored a guide in the Daily Journal about amicus participation in appellate litigation.

ACS member Rick Hasen was quoted in The Washington Post about how the Supreme Court could gut Section 2 of the Voting Right Act by creating a test that “requires both the plaintiffs show a substantial racially discriminatory impact AND that requires the state to produce little evidence of an antifraud (or sound election administration) reason to enact a law.”

ACS Member News: Week of February 22, 2021

ACS Board of Directors members Garrett Epps and Melissa Murray, and ACS member K. Sabeel Rahman were featured in Netflix’s Amend: The Fight for America.

ACS Board of Directors member Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. and ACS Board of Advisors member Walter E. Dellinger III were profiled in The New Yorker for their work in coordinating with the Biden campaign to safeguard the 2020 election.

ACS Faculty Advisor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Doron Kalir authored an op-ed in Cleveland.com about how the Senate impeachment proceedings of Donald Trump had no resemblance to an actual trial.

ACS Next Generation Leader Jessica Smith-Peterson was selected as a 2021 Legacy Builder Award Recipient by the NAACP Las Vegas.

ACS Next Generation Leader Melissa Wasser was profiled by The Ohio State University about her career and her time at The Ohio State.

ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter President Jeff Mandell was quoted in The Washington Post about reckoning with Trump’s post-election chaos in Wisconsin and the need for accountability.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors member Alison Siegler co-authored an op-ed in The New York Times about how Merrick Garland can bring bail reform to the federal justice system.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin highlighting the 142nd anniversary of women being allowed to argue before the Supreme Court.

ACS member Joi Chaney has been announced as the executive director of the Washington bureau and SVP for policy and advocacy at the National Urban League.

ACS member César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández was quoted in WBEZ Chicago discussing how the lack of oversight for immigrants detained in county jails in Illinois can leave immigrants vulnerable.