The NYLS Chapter shall host Professor Jeffrey Wice, Ben Max (a colleguege of Professor Wice's at the New York Elections, Census, and Redistricting Institute), and L. Joy Williams, the President of the Brooklyn Chapter of the NAACP. We shall discuss the reasons why many swing states had local eleciton results that swung blue while those same swing states voted more conservatively on a national scale. 

*L. Joy Williams is not confirmed as of 2/4/2025*

Join the Columbus ACS Lawyer Chapter for a Happy Hour to connect, network, and strategize for the year ahead. All are welcome.

So, you want to clerk? How will you access candid information about judges’ managerial styles, chambers culture, work environments, and treatment of clerks?

As recent judicial accountability news underscores, the importance of identifying a good fit and avoiding judges who mistreat their clerks has never been clearer.

Join Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of The Legal Accountability Project (LAP), the first and only nonprofit working full-time to ensure that judicial law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not, for a candid conversation about judicial accountability and clerking. Aliza will explain the reforms LAP works on – in collaboration with law schools and the judiciary – to ensure transparency, diversity and equity, and accountability in judicial clerkship and the judiciary.

After graduating from WashU Law, Aliza clerked in D.C. Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term. In March 2022, after Aliza was harassed, terminated, and retaliated against by a now-former D.C. judge, Aliza testified before Congress about the necessity of extending federal anti-discrimination protections to more than 30,000 federal judiciary employees. Aliza launched LAP soon after to correct injustices she experienced as a law student and law clerk.

Learn how you can get involved with LAP’s clerkship transparency movement right now. By fostering candid dialogue about workplace conduct, LAP is transforming the clerkship system and legal profession for the next generation of attorneys, shining a spotlight on historically under-discussed issues, and innovating in slow-to-change spaces.

This will be a panel discussion with Professor Schlanger and Professor Bagenstos about the impacts of Trump's mass federal firing / DOGE agenda on labor and the administrative state, and the resistance efforts being raised by workers, labor unions, and allies. We are co-sponsoring this event with the Michigan Immigration and Labor Law Association.

Professor Ronald Krotoszynski will unpack Elon Musk’s recent moves to slash federal agencies and his unexpected maneuvers involving DOGE. From executive power and regulatory rollbacks to the implications of decentralized finance on government authority, this talk will explore the legal and constitutional ramifications of Musk’s actions.

On Tuesday, ACS, WLA, HLS Democrats, and Freshfields will host Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune for a lunch talk on local government and a career in elected politics. Council President Louijeune has served as an at-large member of the City Council since 2022 and is the first Haitian-American member of the Council. She is a graduate of HLS and the Kennedy School and previously served as Senior Counsel for Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign. RSVP here for the event at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 25 in WCC 2004.