Join ACS as they host Judge Carlton Reeves, Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, in Eck 1140. Judge Reeves will be discussing what he believes to be a "call to serve" amongst lawyers given recent events in the legal profession.

ACS members will be having dinner with Judge Carlton Reeves.

Book talk with Professor Joan Williams re: her upcoming release 'Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class – And How to Win Them Back (forthcoming St. Martin’s, May 2025)' and her prior work 'White Working Class.'

Join us for lunch and a dynamic conversation with Professor Rachel Barkow discussing her new book, Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. Student questions are encouraged and will be collected via the RSVP form above. In the book, Professor Barkow discusses six Supreme Court cases that she argues were wrongly decided. The cases are:

· United States v. Salerno (1987) discussing pretrial detention

· Bordenkircher v. Hayes (1978) discussing plea bargaining

· Harmelin v. Michigan (1991) discussing cruel and unusual punishment

· Rhodes v. Chapman (1981) discussing prison conditions and overcrowding

· Terry v. Ohio (1968) discussing stop-and-frisk

· McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) discussing racial discrimination challenges

A conversation on foreign policy with Doug Bunch, former U.S. public delegate to the Unit

Sixty years ago, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted into law. It set the stage for a radical transformation in access to voting rights for all Americans, but especially for African Americans and other minority groups. However, in recent years, the Supreme Court has significantly weakened the Act's ability to protect equal voting rights. On the 60th anniversary of the Act's introduction in the Senate, a panel of voting rights experts will discuss the initial promise of the Act, the state it is in today, and how the fight for voting rights can most effectively move forward. Panelists include: Chris Dodge (Elias Law Group), Sean Morales-Doyle (Brennan Center for Justice), Chris Shenton (Southern Coalition for Social Justice), and Jacob van Leer (ACLU Voting Rights Project).