Join Professors Jasmine Harris and Karen Tani to discuss their pathbreaking paper, The Disability Docket, applying a “disability lens” to the Supreme Court’s 2021 and 2022 Terms (co-written with Shira Wakschlag (the Arc)). Professors Harris and Tani argue that disability law, as well as disability advocacy, can provide critical perspectives to ongoing debates about inclusion and resource distribution. Tracing both disability-related disputes as well as non-disability cases with disproportionate impact on people with disabilities, the article articulates the Supreme Court’s broader agenda through a disability lens to further and protect civil rights more generally.
Jasmine E. Harris is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School with a secondary appointment at the Penn Graduate School of Education. She is a leading law and inequality scholar with expertise in disability law, antidiscrimination law, and evidence as well as a frequent contributor in publications and media outlets as the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Ms. Magazine, Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Bloomberg, and National Public Radio. Professor Harris holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a JD from Yale Law School. She clerked for Harold Baer, Jr., United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, practiced complex commercial litigation at WilmerHale, and practiced public interest law at the Advancement Project. Harris serves as an executive board member of The Arc of the United States where she chairs the organization’s Legal Advocacy Committee.
Karen Tani is the Seaman Family University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the history department. She is the author of States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her published articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Law and History Review, Disability Studies Quarterly, and other outlets. Her current book project is titled “Costed Out: Disabled Citizens and American Governance in the Late Twentieth Century.” She holds a JD and a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania.
Join fellow Minneapolis/St Paul ACS chapter members at a volunteer food packing event to give back to the community. Feel free to join us afterwards at Tavern 4&5. This volunteer event is open to ACS board members and local student chapter members.
RSVP here.
On Wednesday, March 13 at 4 PM, join ACS at UW Law for a conversation about the Role of Economic Justice in the Progressive Legal Movement with Professor Caroline Fredrickson and Dean Daniel Tokaji. The conversation will be held in Lubar Commons (Room 7200). Light appetizers will be provided for all attendees.
Caroline Fredrickson is a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Practice at Georgetown Law and a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. She served as the President of the American Constitution Society from 2009-2019. In 2021, she was appointed a member of the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. Fredrickson is also the leader of the Progressive Team for the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project and a Senior Congressional Fellow at the Stennis Center. Before joining ACS, Fredrickson served as the Director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office and as General Counsel and Legal Director of NARAL Pro-Choice America. In addition, she served as the Chief of Staff to Senator Maria Cantwell, of Washington, and Deputy Chief of Staff to then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, of South Dakota. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Fredrickson is currently an elected member of the American Law Institute. She clerked for the Hon. James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
ACS is thrilled to be hosting a special conversation with former White House Counsel Neil Eggleston about his career and service as President Obama’s White House Counsel.
Professor Eggleston has held a number of other senior government positions including Deputy Chief Counsel of the Congressional Committee that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair in 1987-1988 and Associate Counsel to President Clinton. He is now a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and teaches a course on presidential powers at Harvard Law.
Topics will include White House lawyering, presidential powers, and international crises.
ACS and YLDems are excited to announce that next Tuesday the 12th from 12:10-1:10 in SLB 124 we'll be hosting three incredible voting rights lawyers from the ACLU Voting Rights Project and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to talk about their work fighting voter suppression and litigating under the Voting Rights Act, including the recent Supreme Court cases Allen v. Milligan and Alexander v. South Carolina Conference of the NAACP.
John Cusick serves as Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where he works on voting rights and criminal legal system cases and matters. He has litigated voting rights cases nationwide, including federal lawsuits challenging penal disenfranchisement schemes, voter-registration restrictions, limited early-voting access opportunities, and other racially discriminatory policies that impede access to the ballot box for Black voters and other voters of color. He is part of litigation teams challenging racially discriminatory redistricting maps in Arkansas and South Carolina. And he has spearheaded LDF’s advocacy efforts statewide and at the county level to combat racial voter suppression tactics and led or co-led election protection efforts in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.
Antonio Lavalle Ingram II serves as Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where he works on voting rights and educational equity cases. He is a graduate of Yale College and UC Berkeley School of Law. He previously served as a federal judicial law clerk for the honorable Ivan L. Lemelle in the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana and for Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. He also completed a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship in Malawi where he worked for the Malawian government and served in their Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Davin Rosborough is a Deputy Director with the ACLU Voting Rights Project and has been part of the team since 2017. Since joining, Davin has served as the ACLU’s lead counsel in cases challenging Alabama’s 2021 redistricting maps including in Allen v. Milligan, in which the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a decision finding that Alabama likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in drawing its congressional districts. He also helps lead the challenge to Georgia’s 2021 voter suppression law, SB 202, and recently obtained a preliminary injunction against Georgia’s ban on providing food and water to voters waiting in lines longer than 150-feet from the polling-place entrance. Davin served as part of team that successfully challenged the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 census as well as the Trump administration’s unsuccessful attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment count, acted as co-lead counsel in obtaining a preliminary injunction and favorable settlement against Missouri under the National Voter Registration Act, and helped obtain a preliminary injunction against Tennessee’s restrictive law targeting voter registration groups. He also worked to protect the right to safely vote by mail in light of COVID-19, serving as lead counsel in litigation resulting in consent decrees eliminating enforcement of Virginia’s absentee witness requirement during major 2020 elections, challenging Alabama’s restrictive mail-voting regime, and successfully opposing an attempt to eliminate drive-thru voting in Harris County, Texas.
