From detaining student protesters to threatening to deport rival politicians, President Trump has weaponized the immigration system to suppress dissent. In this event, Professor Alina Das and advocate Ramya Krishnan will discuss how these attacks chill speech across the board, examine the unique challenges of defending free speech in the immigration context and describe how lawyers can resist efforts to silence non-citizens and citizens alike.
Featuring:
Alina Das, James Weldon Johnson Professor and co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at New York University
Ramya Krishnan, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School
Taonga Leslie, Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice, American Constitution Society
The American Constitution Society is pending approval as a State Bar of California CLE provider. Upon approval, this event will be worth 1.0 hours of California MCLE credit. Click here for the CLE Documentation, CA MCLE Cert. of Attendance, Non-CA CLE Cert. of Attendance, Evaluation Form, and CLE Attendance Verification form.
General meeting of ACS members at UNC Law to breakdown the events that we hosted this semester, discuss goals for next semester, and garner community input.
Join the ACS New York Lawyer Chapter, the Leitner Center for International Law & Justice, and ACS Fordham Law School Student Chapter for a discussion on the First Amendment Right. A number of U.S. states and the federal government have taken actions and enacted legislation to restrict rights protected by the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Such restrictions include book bans, censorship of speech in educational settings, libraries, museums and private corporations, restrictions on press access, penalizing lawful dissent and protest, and more. Our distinguished speakers will discuss ongoing infringements of these 1st Amendment guarantees, and the legal challenges and advocacy their organizations are undertaking to counter these infringements.
Featuring:
Carey Dunne, Founder and Chair, Free + Fair Litigation Group
Elly Brinkley, Staff Attorney, U.S. Free Expression Programs, PEN America
Moderator:
Jeanmarie Fenrich, CSR Program Director, Leitner Center for International Law & Justice, Fordham University School of Law
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Join Maurer's American Constitution Society, Public Interest Law Foundation, Plaintiff's Law Association, and FedSoc for a conversation on what public employees can and cannot say with speaker Frank LaMonte.
Rules and policies that forbid public employees from speaking about their work are pervasive across all levels of government, from Cabinet-level agencies down to the smallest local school district. While commonplace, these restrictions exist under a dark cloud of constitutional doubt. Decades worth of First Amendment caselaw establishes that public employers cannot gag their employees from sharing information and expertise gathered at work. What rights do public-sector workers have, where do First Amendment freedoms give way to employers’ authority to maintain order, and how is the public affected when government employees are restrained from speaking freely?
Join Villanova Law's ACS and Anti-Poverty Law Society for an important panel on recent changes to federal and state benefits. We look forward to hosting a panel of practitioners and academics to discuss changes to SNAP, Medicaid, and taxes (including the ACA tax credits) which will affect low-income populations. The panelists include: Maripat Pileggi (Supervising Attorney, Community Legal Services); Amy Feinberg (Director of the Villanova Tax Clinic), and Ana Santos Rutschman (Professor of Law, Villanova Law).
We will have Thea Posel, Jim Marcus, Raoul Schonemann, who are all members of the Texas Law faculty with extensive experience in capital defense litigation, discuss the intersection of capital punishment and race, the current state of the death penalty, and what we can do to change the status quo for the better.
