Please join the ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter and the ACS Wisconsin Law School Student Chapter for a panel on Kaul v. Urmanski and the future of reproductive rights in Wisconsin. We will be joined by attorney Diane Welsh from Pines Bach, Representative Lisa Subeck, and Senator Kelda Roys, who will discuss their respective litigation and legislative efforts. Lunch will be provided. RSVP through this link.

Diane Welsh is a Partner at Pines Bach with twenty-five years of experience in government, administrative, and health law. She represents the intervenor physicians in Kaul v. Urmanski and Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin in their separate challenge to the constitutionality of Wisconsin's abortion laws.

Representative Lisa Subeck has represented the 78th District in the Wisconsin State Assembly since January 2015, and prior to her election to the legislature, she served two terms on the City of Madison Common Council. She currently serves as Chair of the Assembly Democratic Caucus and is the ranking member on the Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, and the Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities

Senator Kelda Roys represents Wisconsin’s 26th Senate District, which includes most of Madison and several surrounding communities, and serves on the powerful Joint Committee on Finance. She received her JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she worked on the Innocence Project. Before joining the legislature, she served for four years as executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin (now Reproductive Freedom for All).

Join Mass Media at Berkeley Law (MMaBL) and the American Constitution Society (ACS) for a conversation with Dean Chemerinsky and New York Times reporter Adam Liptak, who has been at the forefront some of the biggest stories surrounding the Supreme Court. They will discuss how journalists have covered the Supreme Court in the past, how and why that’s changing, and what the future looks like for this Supreme Court.

Penn hosted a social event for our chapter members.

We'll be welcoming Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, founder and executive director of Upper Seven Law, to speak with students about her career in public interest litigation and how students can apply their legal training to effect change in society. We will be cohosting the event with the Public Interest Law Foundation, a BYU Law student organization dedicated to the promotion of community legal service in the study and practice of law.

Please join American Constitution Society and Labor and Employment Law Society in welcoming Michael Nicholson, general counsel for the United Auto Workers. Mr. Nicholson has spent decades representing the UAW, and on Monday he will join us to discuss how labor law has changed over the course of his career (and how it might change in the future)! Lunch will be provided.

Come discuss the 2024 election with Celia Israel, Sarah Chen, and Mimi Marziani! Lunch provided.