Please join the Cornell Law ACS Student Chapter for a discussion with UC Berkeley Professor Osagie K. Obasogie and Cornell Law Professor Aziz Rana about police use of force.
ACS Dallas-Fort Worth: Workplace Discriminations Against Asians
Asian Americans have reported a significant level of discrimination since the emergence of coronavirus in 2020. Among Asian Americans 39% said others have acted uncomfortably around them; 31% reported being the subject of race-based jokes or slurs; and 26% admitted they feared being the target of a physical attack.
The Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) tools available to Asian Americans and other federal and state discrimination, harassment, and diversity laws may not adequately address this re-emerging problem.
Join the Dallas Asian American bar association and the ACS Dallas-Fort Worth Lawyer Chapter for a fast-paced session that will offer strategy tips, good practices that attorneys can identify, and showcase how to address anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, and affirmative action/diversity/inclusion faced by the Asian American community.
This program is intended for lawyers who do not practice in employment law or corporate arena, but it is well-suited for experienced labor and employment attorneys.
This panel will feature:
Christopher Ho, Senior Counsel, the Legal Aid at Work (California)
Meyling Ortiz, Managing Counsel of the Labor & Employment Department, Toyota Motor North America
Moderated by :
Leo Yu, Senior Assistant City Attorney of Dallas; Member, ACS Dallas-Fort Worth Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors
To attend this event, please register here.
Strict Scrutiny Live Taping
Come join the Yale Law ACS Student Chapter for a live taping of the popular legal podcast Strict Scrutiny with co-hosts and amazing progressive law professors Melissa Murray, Kate Shaw, and Leah Litman. If you’re planning to attend (we’ve got GrubHub!), please register in advance. The normal GrubHub caveats apply: we have a limited number of vouchers and overflow will lead to a lottery. We’ll send the Zoom link to registrants closer to the event. Also, this event will be a “webinar”, so you’ll be able to send in questions via the Q&A or the Google Form (free lunch + no camera needed + an exceptional pod = amazing Friday).
[The New] Deal or No Deal: Structural Legal Change in the Post New Deal Era
As the Biden Administration’s policy goals begin to take shape in Washington and two of the three branches of government lean Democratic, expectations are high for structural change in our institutions. As the country saw in the New Deal, the Court can become a limiting factor on social and political change. With threats of court packing looming from the left, and the force of a more conservative judiciary on the right, the future of our country’s policy making hangs in the balance.
Join the Boston College Law ACS Student Chapter 1L representatives for an important discussion on what this means for our country’s future.
Featuring:
Daniel Lyons is a Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. He specializes in the areas of property, telecommunications and administrative law.
Jim Roosevelt is an attorney at Verrill Law and is a national speaker and author on the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid policy, and Social Security.
Fixing SCOTUS Redux: Court Reform in the Biden Era
This past fall, we discussed proposals for judiciary reform in a pre-election, pre-Democratic Senate era. Now, the Democrats have control of the Senate, and the Biden Administration has established a commission on Supreme Court reform. Join the NYU Law ACS Student Chapter to discuss what this new political landscape may mean for the future of the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary.
Panelists:
- Leah Litman, Associate Professor of Law, University of Michigan and Co-Host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
- Dan Epps, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
- Aaron Tang, Professor of Law, University of California at Davis
To attend this event, please register here.
The Law of the Platform Economy: Antitrust, Labor, & Contracts
Joined by the insight that the "the economy" cannot be separated from questions of power, distribution, and democracy, a growing group of legal scholars has begun to center questions of law and political economy ("LPE") as part of a critical transformation in legal thought. LPE frameworks highlight law's role in the perpetuation of racial and gender injustice, the devaluation of social and ecological reproduction, and the violence of the carceral state under capitalism. The LPE approach also explores concrete legal reforms designed to move beyond neoliberalism and toward a genuinely responsive, egalitarian democracy, with critical attention to the need for power and movement-building as part of any such transformation.
ACS is pleased to partner with the LPE Project in hosting an online course introducing students to LPE analysis. Join us for the first of two conversations:
Opening Remarks:
Russ Feingold, ACS President
Featured Speaker:
Sanjukta Paul, Assistant Professor of Law, Romano Stancroff Research Scholar, Wayne State University School of Law
With Commentary From:
Amy Kapczynski, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Save the date for our next conversation on April 9, 2021 at 4:00PM ET where we will host a conversation on Law, Money & Banking. Click here to read more about our next conversation and to register.
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