On Nov. 4, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case that could allow private agencies that receive taxpayer funding to provide government services–such as foster care providers, food banks, homeless shelters, and more–to deny services to people who are LGBTQ, Jewish, Muslim, or Mormon.
Join the GW Law ACS Student Chaper for a panel that will address this case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, from the perspective of amici briefs on which the panelists participated. Academics and practitioners will also provide their assessment on the Court's likely ruling and the implications of that forthcoming decision.
Featuring:
Robert W. Tuttle, Professor of Law, GW Law
Alan B. Morrison, Associate Dean, GW Law
Moderated by:
Currey Cook, Senior Counsel, Lambda Legal
To attend this event, please click here.
It’s an exciting time for labor law right now, as the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act passed the House on March 9, and a historic election for Amazon workers to unionize in Alabama is well underway. Meanwhile, two bills in Connecticut offer competing visions for gig workers’ labor rights. Please join the Yale ACS Student Chapter for a conversation with University of Michigan Professor of Law and leading labor law scholar Kate Andrias for an exciting discussion of where labor law is, and where it might be heading. We hope to see you there!
Please join the ACS Arizona Lawyer Chapter and the Arizona LGBT Bar as we present a panel on two innovative proposals pending in Arizona to reform jury selection to overcome racism and other discrimination not adequately addressed by current law. The first proposal, modeled on a Washington state court rule, would bar the use of peremptory challenges that any reasonable observer would think were motivated by any protected group status. It would also make presumptively invalid a host of voir dire questions aimed at the poor and people of color. The second proposal would bar peremptory challenges altogether.
This event will feature:
Valena Beety, Professor of Law and Deputy Director of Academy for Justice; Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
Hon. Paul McMurdie, Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
Ethan Rice, Senior Attorney for the Fair Courts Project, Lambda Legal
Matei Tarail, Federal Public Defender, District of Arizona
Moderated by:
Randy McDonald, Supervising Clinic Attorney, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; Staff Attorney, Arizona Justice Project; President, Arizona LGBT Bar
Boston College Law School's ACS and If/When/How are hosting an informal but informative conversation with Boston College Law School alumna and UCI Law Professor Michele Goodwin. She will discuss her book "Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood," and talk about current events in progressive Constitutionalism, reproductive justice, racial justice, and the landscape of social justice and inequality in the United States.
Professor Goodwin is the host of the Ms. Magazine Podcast "On the Issues." She has recently written on the need for a "Reproductive Justice New Deal" and a "Reproductive Bill of Rights."
Just four months ago, though it seems longer, more than 100 million people in this country watched at least one of the three Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates. In so doing, they helped sustain an indispensable component of the democratic process--sponsored, since 1988, by the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates. The road to each 90-minute debate had bumps and tortuous curves, as it does every four years, but in 2020 that road was even more challenging given Covid-19 and the very nature of the campaign and the candidates. Brady Williamson, a Madison lawyer, had a seat at the table for every one of the almost daily negotiations in Cleveland, in Salt Lake City, and in Nashville that led to each of the debates.
Join the ACS Madison, At-Large, and Austin Lawyer Chapters as we welcome him to talk about that experience and the legal and historical framework for candidate debates with an appropriate reference or two to Lincoln-Douglas and clips from the scattered debates beginning in 1960.
Featuring:
Brady Williamson, Shareholder, Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Moderated by:
Breanne Snapp, Habush, Habush & Rottier S.C.; Member, ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors
1.0 Hour of Wisconsin CLE credit is pending for this event.
Do you wonder what jobs and careers there are in international affairs? Well the Tennessee World Affairs Council (TNWAC) will present two panels this month on legal and diplomatic professions that seek to answer just that.
Join Professor Susan Haynes, the ACS Nashville Lawyer Chapter, and a host of other co-sponsors for the first panel that will take place on March 23, 2021, as they host a conversation with professionals from around the international legal community to hear about education and training, job pathways and pitfalls, and joys of working in this interesting and challenging field.
Featuring:
Iona Bara, Lawyer, European Court of Human Rights
Clàudia Baró Huelmo, Associate, Withers LLP
Tina Burjarlani, Senior Legal Advisor, American Bar Association
Vicki Prais, Human Rights Lawyer and Independent Human Rights Consultant
Olga Parwan, Head of Outreach and Legacy Section, Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Moderated by:
Susan Turner Haynes, Assistant Professor, Lipscomb University; Member, Tennessee World Affairs Council Board
To attend this event, please register here.
