The event will be a discussion about the history and current state of qualified immunity. Judge Carlton W. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, will be joining us in person for the event & Professor Joanna Schwartz, UCLA Law Professor and author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable, will be joining us via Zoom.

We will be exploring the feasibility of canceling the contracts of LUMA Energy and Genera PR. The discussion will feature panelists who are members of the Special Commission of the Puerto Rico Bar Association tasked with evaluating these contracts.

ACS invites Neil Eggleston to the University of Michigan Law School for a lunch talk. He was White House Counsel to President Obama from 2014 to 2017, and advised the president on all legal and constitutional issues across a broad spectrum of domestic and foreign policy matters. Earlier in his career, he served as Associate Counsel to President Clinton, Deputy Chief Counsel to the US House of Representatives Select Committee Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair, and Assistant US Attorney. He now works as a litigation partner at K&E in DC.

As Executive Director of the International Bar Association, Mark Ellis leads the world’s foremost organization of lawyers. Dr Ellis served as Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and was appointed by OSCE to advise on the creation of Serbia’s War Crimes Tribunal. He was actively involved with the Iraqi High Tribunal. He was appointed Chair of the UN created Advisory Panel on Matters Relating to Defence Counsel of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. Twice a Fulbright Scholar to Croatia, he earned his J.D. and B.S. degrees from Florida State University and his PhD from King’s College, London.

Register Here: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/UWxNfazFT16sV1uuLmIwAw

We hope to have a panel on immigration in the new administration featuring (1) an attorney focused on ICE raids, due process, etc; (2) an immigration/asylum practitioner (3) an immigration scholar and (4) someone with lived experience. We are currently working on securing speakers and would love any and all help in that regard.