Please join ACS on February 26 at 1:10pm for a discussion with Professor Michael J. Gerhardt of UNC Law on his new book, The Law of Presidential Impeachment: A Guide for the Engaged Citizen. Professor Gerhardt offers unique expertise on this especially pertinent topic as a lifetime legal scholar and witness in the impeachment trials of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Come for a discussion of the laws and procedures governing presidential impeachment and its important relationship with other Congressional powers and the Constitution.

Panelists: Kelley Henry, Diann Rust-Tierney, and Cliff Sloan. Co-hosted with: Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute and Georgetown Criminal Association.

MLaw ACS Lunch Event – A Conversation with Judge L. Felipe Restrepo of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Topics to be covered include Judge Restrepo’s experience as a federal judge, clerking, his life and background, careers, and diversity in the federal judiciary.

Documentary Screening of the Ken Burns Documentary on the Central Park Five to highlight inequities and injustice in the criminal justice system during Black History Month.

The Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences Division, Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at UCLA, Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter coined the term “Black Lives Matter.” His books include Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America, The New Black Sociologists, and Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life, coauthored with Zandria F. Robinson. He formerly served as the Inaugural Chair of UCLA's African American Studies Department and President of the Association of Black Sociologists, his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Social Science Research Council, and he has appeared across a wide array of print and broadcast media. In Radical Reparations, Hunter ventures beyond the contentious current debate about the country’s responsibility for atoning for its earlier sins to lay out an ambitious but practical seven-point compensation plan for Black Americans.

Books will be available for purchase at the library on event night.

Register here.