The 2020 election cycle has truly been unlike any other in modern history. Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the way many Americans will cast their ballot, but longstanding norms that have governed political actors' conduct during elections have already been undermined. With the narrative and legal landscape surrounding the election seeming to shift by the hour, many questions have arisen as we enter the final week of voting. What should we expect on Election Night and the weeks to follow? How could ongoing litigation impact the administration of the election in these final days and could it impact the outcomes? What have we seen from the Supreme Court recently on election-related matters and how might that change with a new Justice on the bench?

Welcome Remarks:
Lindsay Langholz, Director of Policy and Program, ACS

Featured Speakers:
Jonathan Mehta Stein, Executive Director, California Common Cause, Moderator
Kat Calvin, Founder and Executive Director, Spread the Vote
Jonathan Diaz, Legal Counsel, Campaign Legal Center
Daniel Tokaji, Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School

Have you ever thought about becoming a law professor? How do you know if you're well suited for it? What kinds of professorships are available and how does one become a candidate for them? As law schools become more diverse environments, the need for more inclusive law faculties increases as well. Don't count yourself out before you learn more about it.

Join ACS National and the ACS Yale Law School Student Chapter for a conversation about the various paths to legal academia, the bumps along the way to look out for, and what you can do to prepare yourself.

Welcome Remarks:
Kara Stein, ACS Vice President of Policy & Program

Featured Speakers:
Kate Andrias, Professor of Law, University of Michigan School of Law; Member, ACS Board of Academic Advisors
Ruben Garcia, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Workplace Law Program, and ACS Faculty Advisor, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law; Member, ACS Board of Directors and ACS Board of Academic Advisors
Sharmila Murthy, Associate Professor of Law and ACS Faculty Advisor, Suffolk University Law School
Daniel Shackelford, Vice President of Scholarship, ACS Yale Law School Student Chapter, Moderator

Watch the ACS Nashville Chapter for a discussion with ACS President Russ Feingold, followed by a discussion with Professor Ganesh Sitaraman on the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court Term.

Featuring:

Russ Feingold, President, American Constitution Society
Ganesh Sitaraman, Chancellor Faculty Fellow, Professor of Law, ACS Faculty Advisor, and Director of the Program in Law and Government, Vanderbilt Law School; Member, ACS Board of Directors and Board of Academic Advisors

Watch the ACS Bay Area, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Sacramento Lawyer Chapters for an important conversation between Hon. Xavier Becerra and Hon. Josh Shapiro, moderated by Valerie M. Nannery.

At this event we discussed the importance of safeguarding free & fair elections and the work that the attorneys general are doing to protect election integrity, with a focus on the USPS litigation.

Featuring:

Xavier Becerra, California Attorney General
Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Attorney General

Moderated By:

Valerie M. Nannery, Director of Network Advancement, ACS

Half a century after Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart decried systemic racism in the administration of the death penalty, Black, Latinx, and Native American people continue to be disproportionately represented on the federal and state death rows. Meanwhile, crimes against white victims are the ones for which the death penalty are overwhelmingly sought. And yet, for the past thirty years, the U.S. Supreme Court has thwarted efforts to challenge systemic racism in the death penalty based on what Justice William Brennan characterized as "a fear of too much justice."

Join the American Constitution Society for an examination of what led to and perpetuates the stark racial disparities in the death penalty and how can they be addressed at both the state and federal level.

Introductory Remarks:
Russ Feingold, ACS President

Featuring:
Catherine M. Grosso, Professor of Law, Michigan State University
Henderson Hill, Senior Counsel, ACLU Capital Punishment Project
Alexis Hoag, Associate Research Scholar in the Faculty of Law; Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
Liliana Segura, Senior Reporter, The Intercept, Moderator