Professor Bracha will discuss how modern Contract Law exacerbates existing racial and economic inequities and what we can do to ameliorate these inequities.
General Body Meeting
Please join us for a general body meeting on March 4th! Not only will we provide updates and information regarding the rest of the semester, we will be joined by ACS's Zack Gima! Zack will attend the meeting to share critical information such as clerkship preparation, post-grad jobs, and opportunities within ACS! Can't wait to see you there.
A Conversation with Former Congressman Joe Kennedy III
Join ACS, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, and the Mississippi Delta Project for a lunch talk with Joe Kennedy III on Wednesday, March 4 in Austin 101 East.
ACS and SCAS Present: Former North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park
Ryan Park will join UChicago ACS and the Supreme Court and Appellate Society to discuss his tenure as North Carolina’s Solicitor General.
Ryan Park co-leads McGuireWoods’ North Carolina Appellate Litigation team and is a core member of the firm’s Appeals and Issues and State Attorneys General Investigations & Enforcement teams. He served as Solicitor General of South Carolina from 2022 to 2025, and represented the University of North Carolina before the Supreme Court in SFFA v. University of North Carolina. He clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justices David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as well as for Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal and holds a B.A. with distinction in economics and political science from Amherst College.
"Safeguarding Democracy: Lessons from Oregon & Washington in Challenging Federal Overreach"
The goal of the event is to motivate law students about the ways in which states can litigate against federal encroachment and shine a light on how the current administration is eroding state sovereignty.
Date: Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Time: 12:20 PM - 1:00 PM PST
Location: Lewis & Clark School of Law (Classroom TBD - likely in our McCarty building) 10101 S Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, Oregon 97219
Format: Lightly moderated panel discussion (20 min) followed by audience Q&A (20 min)
Panelists:
Dustin Buehler, Special Counsel at the Oregon Office of Attorney General
Lane Polozola, Managing Assistant Attorney General, Wing Luke Civil Rights Division, Washington State Office of the Attorney General
Other Panelists Still Pending
Indigenous Constitutionalism with Dr. W. Tanner Allread
Dr. W. Tanner Allread will be presenting his research on Tribal Constitutionalism in anticipation of his forthcoming publication, "Indigenous Constitutionalism"