Join ACS for a Beyond the Doctrine panel discussing Addressing the Peril: Seeking Better Legal Outcomes for Criminalized Survivors, a recent report published by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. The panel will feature Debbie Mukamal, Executive Director of the Center, Robert Weisberg, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center, and SLS students Wyndham Ermini and Anna Zannetos, who contributed to the Addressing the Peril report.
The conversation will draw on work from the Regilla Project, a long-running research and policy initiative that examines how survivors of intimate partner violence are criminalized, with particular attention to women incarcerated for homicide and related offenses. Drawing on original in-prison survey research and policy analysis, the panel will explore how core criminal law doctrines governing charging decisions, homicide liability, defenses, evidence, sentencing, and parole often fail to account for the realities of abuse and trauma, and what these gaps reveal about the limits of existing criminal law frameworks for addressing survivor-defendants. Lunch will be provided.
UND ACS is having our general spring informational meeting. Please come and talk with the UND board, find out more about our events this semester, and put in your recommendations for our UND ACS Spring ProBono project. Lunch will be provided.
Please show up to support Michigan Law LAWBreaks at the annual Golf in the Subs event! LAWBreaks gives Michigan Law students the opportunity to spend Spring Break supporting a public interest organization (usually in another city!). The mission of the program is to provide public-interest-minded students with a structured opportunity to explore the kinds of organizations and the work that they can commit their careers to. (It is especially critical at a place like Michigan, where the push toward Big Law is real and well-supported.)
Golf in the Subs is an annual fundraiser where students take over the library for an evening of mini-golf competitions. ACS at Michigan Law is proud to help support LAWBreaks by providing dinner for this year's event. All proceeds will go to covering travel and lodging stipends for LAWBreaks participants.
UND ACS is having our general spring informational meeting. Please come and talk with the UND board, find out more about our events this semester, and put in your recommendations for our UND ACS Spring ProBono project. Lunch will be provided.
Judge Childs was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in July 2022. She has an illustrious career in public service, including serving as the Deputy Director for the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation's Division of Labor; as a commissioner on the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission; as a judge in multiple divisions of South Carolina courts; and as a United States District Court judge for the District of South Carolina.
Judge Childs holds an undergraduate degree in Management from the University of South Florida Honors College, a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law, a Masters in Personnel and Employment Relations from the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, a Masters of Judicial Studies from Duke University School of Law, and an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Public Service from the University of South Carolina.
Join ACS for a community wide event featuring guest speakers, a know your rights during ICE encounters and demonstrations presentation, and a presentation of local opportunities to get involved.
