Alabama Law's ACS chapter is hosting a watch party for the Vice Presidential debate with Professor Bryan Fair at 7:30 PM in Room A112. Pizza provided!

ACS held a conversation with Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, and afterwards had a small group of our board chat with him.

The prosecution and conviction of innocent people in Indiana is a problem of serious concern. Since 1989, there have been 47 exonerations in Indiana. However, there have been 11 exonerations in Indiana since 2017. Almost 25% of Indiana’s total number of exonerations have occurred over the last six years.

These wrongful convictions have a racial dimension. Specifically, 22 of the 47 Indiana exonerees (47%) are Black Americans, whereas Black Americans comprise only ten percent of Indiana’s population. Because almost half of the wrongful convictions in Indiana involved Black Americans, significant questions exist about equal justice in the Indiana criminal justice system. Lake County alone has six exonerations—the highest in Indiana. 

Mr. Roosevelt Glenn, a board member of the newly launched Indiana Innocence Project, was wrongly convicted in Lake County, along with his co-defendant Darryl Pinkins. As Black men, they faced the enormity of bias and faulty evidence in our criminal legal system in Indiana. Mr. Glenn will speak about his wrongful conviction and discuss opportunities and next steps for Indiana lawyers and law students in stopping wrongful convictions before they happen. 

Mr. Glenn will be introduced by Professors Beety and Sandys, who will also guide a question and answer session after the lecture. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Black Law Student Association at Maurer. 

This event can also serve as one CLE credit.

Fresh off a year with several prominent and controversial Supreme Court rulings, another SCOTUS year lies ahead. Please join Discussions from Drinko Hall on Tuesday, October 1 at 12:10 pm to hear faculty experts break down some of the key cases SCOTUS will rule on during this upcoming term. It is sure to be an engaging discussion with contributions from some of the sharpest minds at Moritz. Moderated by Kent Barnett, Dean and J. Gilbert Reese Chair in Contract Law.

We invite you to continue your personal and professional growth with us at the Moritz College of Law.

This event is co-sponsored by the Moritz chapters of the American Constitution Society and the Federalists Society.

Join ACS for a discussion on voting rights litigation with ACLU voting rights director Sophia Lin Lakin. This event will be on-campus at the lunch hour.

Penn ACS hosted a voter registration drive at the school and on Locust Walk.