This event will focus on Congressman Raskin's experience with January 6th, President Trump's impeachment, and how he's approaching his current role as Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. Professor Boldt and Dean Hutchins will co-moderate the event and share their perspectives on questions related to constitutional law and the legal profession.

Join the Harvard Law School ACS Student Chapter for a coffee and bagel chat with Bradley Girard, Americans United for Separation of Church & State. 

Bradley Girard is the Litigation Counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Prior to working at AU, Bradley was the clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown Law’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, where he taught students public-interest impact litigation in the federal courts of appeals and the U.S Supreme Court. He also earned an LLM in advocacy. He graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law in 2014. After law school he clerked for the Honorable Neal E. Kravitz on the D.C. Superior Court and on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey.

Join ACS Southern as we facilitate a 2nd Amendment discussion with Gliffords and MFOL at noon on March 29, 2024.

We will discuss the new Louisiana legislation regarding permit-less concealed carry and no civil liability for permit-less, passed in the 2024 2nd Special Session in the Louisiana State Legislature. We will also discuss the importance of law students, attorneys and citizens, in general, knowing gun laws and their rights regarding gun laws; while discussing facts about gun violence cases around the country and the importance of their awareness of available resources and guidance.

A potential in-person post- zoom session reflection meeting at a venue off-campus of which details will be shared later. We hope to encourage students to attend the Zoom and discuss the event afterward as an organization.

Recent developments at the federal level specific to climate change, ranging from restrictions on EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions grounded in separation of powers concerns to the preemption of local electrification efforts, suggest a constitutional “drag” on mitigation. In contrast, expansions in environmental constitutionalism support, or have the potential to support, mitigation at the state level. In Held v. Montana, a state court invoked the environmental rights enshrined in Montana’s constitution to strike down a state law prohibiting consideration of climate impacts in environmental review and the Hawai’i Supreme Court invoked the Hawai’i Constitution to uphold denial of a biomass energy project with high emissions. The impacts of climate change will increasingly strain our democratic processes and institutions even as we rely on those processes and institutions to produce the rapid changes necessary for transformational mitigation and just adaptation. Federal and state constitutions must meet this moment if we are to emerge with a healthy climate and functioning democracy. Understanding what, precisely, that means and how it can be accomplished is the purpose of this conference.

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Co-hosted with the University of Pennsylvania ACS Chapter, Rutgers University—Camden ACS Chapter, and the Young Lawyers' Chapter of Philadelphia, come meet and learn from ACS lawyers and students from the Philadelphia area. No RSVP necessary.

Friday March 29 at 2:55pm, ACS is excited to host Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski. Congresswoman Budzinski will discuss her leadership in labor organizing, advising Governor Pritzker, working at Chief of Staff in the Office of Management and Budget, and serving as our member of congress.