The panel will look at how equal access to justice is the foundation for human rights and the rule of law. Barriers to justice negatively impact individuals, as well as their families and communities. Promoting the rule of law and ensuring access to justice for all is essential to allow all groups in society to equally enjoy their rights.
This event will bring together speakers from the local legal community and the judicial bench to highlight the importance of equal access to justice. Boyd’s ACS Chapter and FBASO hope to facilitate a high-level discussion and dialogue on the importance of making justice equal and available to all.
Conversation with labor lawyers and legal scholars about the state of organized labor and how law students can get involved in worker advocacy.
ACS is proud to present a compelling and thought-provoking seminar on the intricacies of post-conviction justice featuring Jonathan Cruz, the creator of the Post-Conviction Justice Unit in the California Dept. of Justice and a public servant for over 20 years. Q&A to follow this presentation and food will be provided!
Guest Speaker: Jonathan Cruz, Public Servant, Creator of the Post-Conviction Justice Unit for the CA. DOJ.
Join the ACS New York Lawyer Chapter and the NYU Law School ACS Student Chapter for a book talk with former ACS Board Chair Cliff Sloan on his new book, The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made.
Featuring:
Cliff Sloan, Professor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country—with consequences that endure today.
By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had molded his Court. He had appointed seven of the nine justices—the most by any president except George Washington—and handpicked the chief justice.
But the wartime Roosevelt Court had two faces. One was bold and progressive, the other supine and abject, cowed by the charisma of the revered president.
The Court at War explores this pivotal period. It provides a cast of unforgettable characters in the justices—from the mercurial, Vienna-born intellectual Felix Frankfurter to the Alabama populist Hugo Black; from the western prodigy William O. Douglas, FDR’s initial pick to be his running mate in 1944, to Roosevelt’s former attorney general and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson.
The justices’ shameless capitulation and unwillingness to cross their beloved president highlight the dangers of an unseemly closeness between Supreme Court justices and their political patrons. But the FDR Court’s finest moments also provided a robust defense of individual rights, rights the current Court has put in jeopardy. Sloan’s intimate portrait is a vivid, instructive tale for modern times.
