ACS members got the chance to speak with Judge John Murphy of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Please join the ACS Arizona Lawyer Chapter, the National Lawyers Guild, and the Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona for a discussion around Arizona's Lethal Injection Protocols & Litigation. The panelists' will explore controversies surrounding lethal injection practices, including recent litigation and investigation, policy shifts by state officials, and concerns about the risks of poorly managed, inhumane executions.

Featuring:

Sam Kooista, Staff Counsel, Arizona Capital Representation Project

Angela Fairchild, Federal Public Defender, Capital Habeas Unit

Michael Kiefer, Death Penalty Journalist

Register here.

Please join ACS for a panel discussion aimed at demystifying judicial clerkships, specifically for law students of color and first-generation law students. Participants will learn more about the clerkship process, whether they should apply for a clerkship, the differences between state, federal, trial, and appellate clerkships, the qualities that judges look for in judicial clerks, and the day-to-day experience of being a clerk. Panelists will also provide best practices for navigating the clerkship application process and discuss the importance of increasing diversity in judicial clerkships.

Featuring: 

Judge Nancy Abudu, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Justice Anne McKeig, Minnesota Supreme Court

Judge Latrice Westbrooks, Mississippi Court of Appeals

Judge Jamal Whitehead,United States District Court for the Western District of Washington

Moderator: 

Julia Saladino, Associate Director, Georgetown University Law Center Office of Public Interest and Community Service

This conversation is open to all. It will be recorded and the recording will be available to ACS members.

First general board member meeting of the spring semester with all members. Plan to discuss future events and what ACS members can do during the spring semester.

Book talk with Professor David Sloss on his new book People v. The Court" The Next Revolution in Constitutional Law

Please join the ACS Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter for an enlightening book talk of with esteemed legal scholar Michelle Adams, author of The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, a definitive history of the landmark Milliken v. Bradley Supreme Court case. Adams examines how the 1974 decision effectively ended school desegregation efforts in the North, shaping racial and educational inequalities that persist today. In conversation with Professor Sheryll Cashin, Adams delves into the legal, cultural, and political legacies of this pivotal case.

Featuring:

Michelle Adams

is the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and former codirector of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Adams served on the Biden administration’s Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court and has contributed to The New Yorker, The Yale Law Journal, and more. She is the author of The Containment and an expert commentator on civil rights and constitutional law.

Sheryll Cashin

Cashin is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown University. She teaches Constitutional Law and Race & American Law among other subjects and is an acclaimed author. She writes about racial justice and democracy. Her most recent book, White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality, is about the role of segregation and redlining in reproducing inequality. Her books have been nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction (2015), and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction (2005, 2009, and 2018). Cashin is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and an active member of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council. A contributing writer for Politico Magazine, she has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Salon, The Root, and others.

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