The Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic, the American Constitution Society at Berkeley Law, and the Berkeley Law Clinical Program look forward to welcoming you to a conversation between Professor Robert Tsai (BU Law) and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on March 19, 2024, at 4PM in room 170. Professor Tsai and Dean Chemerinsky plan to discuss Professor Tsai's forthcoming book, Demand the Impossible, in which he traces Stephen Bright’s remarkable career as a civil rights litigator and explores the legal ideas that were central to his relentless pursuit of equal justice.

Increased corporate consolidation across industries has harmed Americans, as consumers, as workers, and as owners of small businesses. By protecting fair competition, antitrust enforcement contributes to lower consumer prices, increased jobs and wages, innovation, and better-quality goods and services. In these ways, antitrust enforcement profoundly affects Americans’ everyday lives. Both federal and state enforcers have roles to play in this important work. Recently, we have seen them act independently and together to challenge consolidation and anti-competitive practices in several high-profile cases, including against Google, Amazon, and Kroger-Albertsons. What challenges are federal and state antitrust enforcers facing? How can these challenges be overcome to achieve the promises of our antitrust laws?

Moderator:

Elizabeth Odette, Assistant Attorney General and Manager of the Antitrust Division in the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General

Panelists:

Alvaro Bedoya, Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission

Gwendolyn J. Lindsay Cooley, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust in the Wisconsin Department of Justice and Chair of the Multistate Antitrust Task Force of the National Association of Attorneys General

Doha Mekki, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice

The American Constitution Society is a State Bar of California approved CLE provider. This event has been approved for 1 hour of California MCLE credit. Click here for the CLE Documentation, CA MCLE Cert. of Attendance, Non-CA CLE Cert. of Attendance, Evaluation Form, and Record of Attendance.

The ACS Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter invites progressive law students and lawyers to build community and celebrate the spring equinox with us at our next chapter social.

UMN ACS is excited to host a panel of lawyers working in state and municipal government! They will discuss their work, the role of lawyers in government, the variety of practice areas covered in government positions, and the difficulties that arise in working for an entity that doesn't always align with their individual beliefs.

Michael S. Kang and Joanna M. Shepherd join NDLS to discuss their new book, Free to Judge: The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections. Kang and Shepherd argue that the effect of money on judicial outcomes should disturb and anger everyone. In the current system that elects state judges, the rich and powerful can spend money to elect and re-elect judges who decide cases the way they want. Free to Judge is about how and why money increasingly affects the dispensation of justice in our legal system, and what can be done to stop it.

  

Michael S. Kang is the Class of 1940 Professor at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law. He recently served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. Joanna M. Shepherd is Vice Dean and Thomas Simmons Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law.