ACS & Supreme Court Forum Event on Special Counsel:
Join Professor Bob Bauer, former White House Counsel and Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU Law, and Professor Jack Goldsmith, former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel and Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, for a discussion on the institution of the special counsel.
This is a timely conversation in light of controversies and questions that have confronted special counsels from Robert Mueller and the Russia election interference investigation to Robert Hur and the recent report declining to prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified material. Professors Goldsmith and Bauer will discuss whether the institution should be retained in its current form, reformed, or ended.
You can read more about their different perspectives in this piece from Professor Goldsmith in the New York Times and this response from Professor Bauer in Lawfare.
This event will be in Vanderbilt 204 on Monday, April 15th at 1:10 pm and is sponsored by the Supreme Court Forum. We will be providing lunch from Saigon Shack.
Please join ACS, BLSA, First Class, La Alianza, and SALSA for a roundtable discussion with Nika Elugardo. Nika served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing Brookline, Jamaica Plain, and Mission Hill for two terms and later as Chief Counsel to United States Senator Ed Markey.
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Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail last year. Our panel discussion will explore the implementation of the reform, confront myths and realities around the law, and consider broader implications for the justice system in Illinois and the nation.
Panelists include:
Sharone Mitchell, Cook County Public Defender
Insha Rahman, Vera Institute for Justice
Joe Tabor, Illinois Policy Institute
Raff Donelson of the Chicago-Kent College of Law will moderate the panel.
Join us for a presentation from Monroe County, Indiana Prosecutor Erika Oliphant and Indiana University Paul H. O’Neil Professor Eric Grommon about their award-winning research examining prosecutorial decision making and the potential impacts on racial and ethnic disparities in the county.
The research project, sponsored by a grant from Arnold Ventures, describes the use of prosecutorial discretion for traffic and misdemeanor cases from charging through sentencing, documenting racial and ethnic disparities across decision-making, assessing local diversion policy and practices, and providing public-facing data to promote transparency and accountability. A partnership between the county Prosecutor's Office, local chapter of the NAACP, and Indiana University O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, the project is critical—and unique—because research often focuses on large cities rather than areas that are representative of counties nationwide. “The justice system often falls short of its constitutional duties to be fair and impartial to everyone," Prosecutor Oliphant noted. "I truly believe this type of assessment is simply the right thing to do and helps us find ways to improve the system while increasing public transparency about what we are doing.”
Stephen Vladeck, the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law, joins NDLS to discuss his New York Times bestselling book, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic."
Professor Vladeck is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts, constitutional law, national security law, and military justice. He has argued over a dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and various lower federal civilian and military courts.
American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation—the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth—and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It’s endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including rapid developments in artificial intelligence threaten to make the problems even worse by amplifying false claims and manufacturing credibility.
Please join the ACS South Florida Lawyer Chapter for a discussion with legal scholar and analyst Barbara McQuade, who discusses her new book, Attack from Within, and shows us how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our society and how we can fight against it.
Featuring:
Barbara McQuade is a professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School, her alma mater, where she teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, national security, and data privacy. She is also a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and a co-host of the podcast #SistersInLaw. From 2010 to 2017, McQuade served as U.S Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Ms. McQuade was appointed by President Barack Obama, and was the first woman to serve in her position. Earlier in her career, she worked as a sports writer and copy editor, a judicial law clerk, an associate in private practice, and an assistant U.S. attorney. She and her husband have four children and live in Ann Arbor.
Moderator:
Wifredo A. “Willy” Ferrer, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, is the chair of Holland & Knight’s Global Compliance and Investigations Team and the executive partner of the firm’s Miami office. Mr. Ferrer focuses his practice primarily on internal corporate investigations, corporate compliance and training, and white collar criminal defense.
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