Join us in SLB 128 this Thursday for a conversation with Stuart Delery, co-hosted by YLDems and OutLaws. Stuart was the White House Counsel for President Biden from 2022-2023 and was the first openly gay person to serve in that role. The NYTimes wrote this about Stuart: "Mr. Delery, a low-key and studious Yale Law School graduate, was among the legal architects of some of Mr. Biden’s most important initiatives, including strategies to distribute Covid-19 vaccines, to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt and to revamp immigration after the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era measure.

Mr. Delery also oversaw a drive to install as many judges as possible. During his tenure, 20 nominees were confirmed to federal appeals courts and 51 to federal district courts. The slate of new judges has been the most diverse in history."

Stuart graduated from Yale Law School and the University of Virginia. Stuart clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Byron White and for Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Please join ACS, LSSJ, and BLSA in talking with Erica Perry, Daniel Yoon, and Christian Snow about the power of movement lawyering! They will be discussing what it means to be a movement lawyer, how they perceive their responsibilities, and the importance of their role. Free food will be provided!

Erica Perry is an organizer and lawyer with the Southern Movement Committee based here in Nashville. She works with other organizers to advocate for Black and working-class communities, such as by fighting for higher community investment, alternatives to incarceration, and to increase democratic participation. Erica founded the Black Nashville Assembly and the Southern Movement Committee.

Daniel Yoon is a community lawyer in Nashville and is currently serving as the Legal Resource Advisor for Metro Nashville Community Oversight. They worked for the Nashville Defenders previously and in private criminal defense, immigration, and other civil rights areas.

Christian Snow is the Executive Director for Law for Black Lives, a national network of over 6,000 radical lawyers and legal workers committed to supporting the leadership of directly impacted communities and transforming the legal field to represent the values of movement lawyering, centered in building community power and democratizing the law. She was previously the program director at the Illinois Justice Project and worked at the People's Law Office.

GMU ACS is hosting Debra Perlin and Jon Baier, attorneys at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, to discuss the recent SCOTUS case Trump v. Anderson and whether the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifies former President Trump from running for reelection. Also joining is GMU professor Ilya Somin, who filed an amicus brief in the case. Topics covered will include what the implications of an expected decision will be on political accountability, Fourteenth Amendment enforcement writ large, and states’ ability to run elections and determine which candidates are eligible to appear on the ballot.

Please join the ACS Washington State Lawyer Chapter and the ACS Seattle University School of Law for a panel discussion on police accountability and reform. During the discussion, the panel will talk about color of law & hate crime prosecutions; the Seattle Police Department consent decree; and what policing could/should look like under the Constitution in the wake of the Black Lives Matter & Defund/Abolish the Police Movements. 

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Featuring: 

Will Dreher, Criminal Civil Rights Coordinator, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington

Hon. David Keenan, Judge, King County Superior Court

Matt Waldrop, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington