ACS is hosting a Board Meeting event for transitioning our 1st year board and the leaving 3Ls and welcoming our new board members. We will use the time to explore what went well during the last year, what changes our board would like to see for the next year.
Beyond the Doctrine: Evidence
Join ACS for a Beyond the Doctrine talk with Professor David A. Sklansky, a series that explores open questions within current legal doctrine.
Professor Sklansky will discuss evidentiary instructions, exploring the legal fields assumptions about their efficacy. Drawing on his article Evidentiary Instructions and The Jury as Other, he questions the predominant view, or myth, that evidentiary instructions do not work. He will discuss the potential consequences of reconsidering the myth and what that should mean for how we view the efficacy of jury trials. Lunch will be provided.
ACS Minnesota: Operation Metro Surge
ACS Minnesota welcomes the broader legal community for a discussion about “Operation Metro Surge,” the ICE occupation of Minnesota. Our panel of speakers will: (1) provide updates on ongoing litigation against the Department of Homeland Security; (2) discuss how Minnesota is seeking accountability for the physical and economic damage perpetrated by ICE; and (3) advise on how other states can prepare for similar ICE occupations. Lawyers and activists from across the nation are welcome to join us to share ideas, resources, and opportunities to push back against ICE overreach.
Introductory remarks by ACS President Phil Brest.
Featuring:
Hon. Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General
Hon. David Lillehaug, Former Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, moderator
Teresa Nelson, ACLU-MN Legal Director
Irina Vaynerman, CEO, Groundwork Legal
Thank you to the ACS Central Texas, Chicago, Dallas Fort-Worth, At-Large, Oregon, and Washington State Lawyer Chapters, along with the ACS IU McKinney Student Chapter for cosponsoring this program.
CLE Credit Pending.
Louisiana v. Callais: A Fireside Chat with Professor Pam Karlan and Michael Li
Join ACS, BLSA, ELSA, LPE, and SCRJ for a conversation with Professor Pam Karlan and Michael Li, Senior Counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center, about the implications of Louisiana v. Callais and the way forward from here.
Unable With the Regular Forces
ACS & the Civil Rights Law Journal invite you to join our free online discussion with Professor Daniel Maurer (Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law) & Professor Chris Mirasola (University of Houston Law Center) about the 2025 domestic National Guard deployments in California, Oregon, and Portland; how the president justified them; on what grounds they were challenged; and how the Court ruled.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKod-lxxuccdsZ_SQCWJOD27SRB30OuW877D2gA0IdHNnzpQ/viewform?usp=header
A Conversation with Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani
ACS is excited to host Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for a lunch talk on April 28. We’ll be discussing her time at Stanford, her diverse legal career and path to the bench, advice on clerking, and more.
Before her appointment to the bench, Judge Ramírez Almadani served as President and CEO of Public Counsel, one of the largest providers of pro bono legal services in the United States. She also worked at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, as a senior advisor to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, and in various roles at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles. Judge Ramírez Almadani has also served as a visiting clinical law professor and practiced law at Covington & Burling LLP.