The ACS Student Chapter at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law proposes to host an informal coffee meet and greet with Ms. Peggy Li, Senior Director of Chapters at the American Constitution Society. This gathering aims to foster connections between our student chapter, the national ACS network, and the law school administration and faculty.
Special Guests:
- Ms. Peggy Li, Senior Director of Chapters, ACS.
- Prof. Mayte Rodríguez, Faculty Advisor.
- Prof. Efrén Rivera.
-The Dean and members of the Dean’s Administration.
This will be an informal event featuring light food and coffee. It will allow students from the ACS Student Chapter and faculty to engage directly with Ms. Li and each other in a relaxed and collegial environment.
Please join the ACS Tampa Lawyer Chapter for our Spring Social. Meet others in the Tampa area who care about ACS’s mission and protecting the rule of law.
Join the ACS New York Lawyer Chapter for a discussion exploring the future of LGBTQ Representation in the Appellate Courts. Our panel of legal experts and advocates will discuss current challenges, recent decisions, and what increased representation means for equity, justice, and the broader LGBTQ community.
Featuring:
Joshua Block, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU LGBT & HIV Project
Rakim Brooks, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Freedom Together Foundation, Alliance for Justice
Hon. Cynthia S. Kern, Associate Justice, Appellate Division, First Department
Susan Paulson, Senior Counsel, Appeals Division, New York City Law Department
Register here.
First regular meeting of the UW chapter of the ACS since its re-founding. Meeting agenda includes providing information about the chapter and the national organization, starting student recruitment, obtaining sign-ups for our email distribution list, and if time permits a brief overview of recent supreme court decisions and q/a.
Please join the ACS Oregon Lawyer Chapter for a discussion with Michael Fakhri, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food regarding his report “Starvation and the Right to Food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty.”
Featuring:
Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, United Nations Human Rights; Professor, University of Oregon School of Law
Moderated by:
Nadia Dahab, Shareholder and Attorney, Sugerman Dahab
Lunch will be provided. Please arrive early to get food as the program will begin promptly at noon.
In recent weeks, the Trump Administration has escalated intimidation efforts against Harvard University and other private colleges, by cancelling billions in federal funding, and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status unless the schools make major changes to their hiring and teaching practices. In this event, ACS will host Harvard Law Professor Andrew Manuel Crespo to make sense of the legal strategies behind the administration's attacks on higher education, and how the academy can defend its independence.
Featuring:
Andrew Manuel Crespo, Morris Wasserstein Professor of Law at Harvard University, General Counsel, AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter
Taonga Leslie, Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice, American Constitution Society
The American Constitution Society is a State Bar of California approved CLE provider. This event has been approved for 1.0 hour of California MCLE credit. Click here for the CLE Documentation, CA MCLE Cert. of Attendance, Non-CA CLE Cert. of Attendance, Evaluation Form, and Record of Attendance.
