A Constitution in the Classroom: Know Your Rights lesson regarding First Amendment protections of freedom of speech (& expression) featuring a student debate activity on the use of rap lyrics against Young Thug in the State of Georgia vs. YSL RICO trial.

Please join the ACS At-Large for our virtual general meeting where we will be going over plans for the year ahead. All are welcome!

Please join ACS for a conversation with Deputy Assistant Attorney General Arun G. Rao. Arun G. Rao has served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Consumer Protection Branch since May 2021. In that capacity, he leads Department of Justice efforts to enforce laws that protect Americans’ health, safety, economic security, and identity integrity through both criminal and affirmative civil enforcement cases across the country. Arun also supervises defense of the Food and Drug Administration and other federal consumer protection agencies in district court litigation.

Prof. Dana Frank will discuss grassroots activism during the Great Depression and the uneven fruits of the New Deal Labor System. 

Join ACS and Fed Soc as we debate the state of the electoral college with featuring Senior Advisor, Kellen Voland. Dinner will be provided.

Featured Speakers:

Professor Michael Gerhardt

Professor Robert Tsai

Event link:

https://lawdocket.bu.edu/ACS/rsvp_boot?id=375300

Official Event Description:

Join Professor Michael Gerhardt, one of the foremost experts in impeachment law in the United States, as he discusses his newest book, The Law of Presidential Impeachment, with BU Law's Professor Robert Tsai. There will be a lot of food including mac and cheese bites, chocolate-covered strawberries and spring rolls!

Professor Gerhardt’s has testified more than 20 times before Congress, including as the only joint witness in the Clinton impeachment proceedings in the House; has spoken behind closed doors to the entire House of Representatives about the history of impeachment in 1998; has served as special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee for eight of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices; and is one of only two legal scholars to testify in three different presidential impeachment hearings (Clinton in 1998, Trump in 2019, and Biden in 2023). During the Clinton and first Trump impeachment proceedings, Gerhardt served as an impeachment expert for CNN. In the second impeachment trial of President Trump, he served as special counsel to the Presiding Officer, Senator Patrick Leahy.