General election for the club and information about up coming club activities.

The American Constitution Society at the University of Cincinnati College of Law invites Dean Emeritus and the Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law Joseph P. Tomain to speak to students about why it is still important to go to law school and enter the legal profession when the rule of law and state of the legal profession is in such disarray. An intimate conversation between concerned students and a community leader, come with your questions and concerns to have a roundtable discussion.

April is Volunteer month. We are having a Pro Bono Lunch and Learn Event. Our confirmed featured speakers are Josh Spickler, JustCity, Claudia Williams Hyman, West Tennessee Legal Services, and Constance Brown, JustCity and Memphis Bar Association. We may have one or two more speakers come that we are waiting to hear from. Were having these speakers to discuss pro bono legal services and how important these services are to the Memphis community.

Please join ACS and FedSoc in conversation with Judges Boulware and Beaton.

Judge Richard F. Boulware II serves on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Prior to taking the bench, he was a trial attorney in the Federal Public Defender's Office in Las Vegas, Nevada and in the Federal Defenders Office of New York in New York City. ​​Judge Boulware received an AB degree cum laude in 1993 from Harvard College and received his JD in 2002. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In 2013, Judge Boulware received the Dedicated Service award from Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice. He has served on numerous nonprofit boards and community committees focusing on education reform and other issues facing disadvantaged, indigent or at-risk individuals in the community.

Judge Benjamin Beaton serves on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. Prior to joining the bench, Judge Beaton was a Partner at Squire Patton Boggs LLP, where he co-chaired the firm’s Appellate & Supreme Court practice group. Judge Beaton also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, where he taught constitutional interpretation. Before joining Squire Patton Boggs, Judge Beaton practiced in the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley Austin, LLP, and also served as a legal fellow with the International Justice Mission in Kampala, Uganda. Upon graduation from law school, Judge Beaton served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Judge Beaton earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Centre College, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Jason Yarashes from the Legal Aid Justice Center and Professor Luke Norris will discuss how farmworkers and seasonal immigrant workers are not included in Virginia's minimum wage law. They will discuss how this exemption came to be, how it impacts workers and leads to human trafficking, and efforts to chance the law. 

This event is co-hosted by the Public Interest Law Association. No RSVP required!

Our chapter will partner with the U of I chapter of National Lawyer’s Guild and with Dr. Gioconda Guerra Perez to host a presentation, followed by a discussion on citizenship and residency rights and how recent executive orders have affected those rights. This is an important discussion to have considering the current administration's ruthless targeting of students on visas, including at this university.