The Biden Administration recently released a new rule that provides critical updates to Title IX. Lindsay Langholz and ACS Law Fellow Claire Comey speak with Anya Marino and Shiwali Patel about this important federal civil rights law, the contours of this new regulation, and the work still to be done to protect students of all gender identities on campus.
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- Shiwali Patel, Director of Safe and Inclusive Schools, National Women's Law Center
- Anya Marino, Director of LGBTQI Equality, National Women's Law Center
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Christopher Wright Durocher is joined by Professor Elisabeth Semel to talk about her recently released report, Guess Who’s Coming to Jury Duty? They discuss how too many courts don’t adequately track prospective jurors’ race and ethnicity and how the failure to take a race-conscious approach to jury selection and service results in the perpetuation of implicit, explicit, and institutional racial bias in our criminal legal system.
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Christopher Wright Durocher, ACS Vice President of Policy and Program
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Elisabeth Semel, Chancellor’s Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, Berkeley Law
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This week on Broken Law, we revisit two moving speeches from ACS's 2023 National Convention. Oren Nimni and Sherrilyn Ifill explore the complicity of lawyers in maintaining our unjust legal system and the special responsibility we bear in creating a more just future.
Featured Speakers:
- Oren Nimni, Litigation Director, Rights Behind Bars
- Sherrilyn Ifill, Former President and Director Counsel, NAACP LDF; Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights, Howard University
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Florida and Arizona state courts recently green lit restrictive abortion bans and the Supreme Court hears two cases that will have significant implications for how doctors and pregnant people navigate the post-Dobbs chaos. Elizabeth Binczik and Lindsay Langholz discuss the latest abortion news and how these developments are interacting with this year's elections.
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The Supreme Court has taken up three cases that arise out of litigants seeking accountability for the violent events of January 6th. This month, the Court will hear arguments on former president Trump's presidential immunity claim and take a look at whether the law used to prosecute many January 6th participants was validly applied in one such prosecution. Lindsay Langholz speaks with Donald Sherman of CREW about what the Court's decision in Trump v. Anderson, the ballot disqualification case, means for this ongoing pursuit of accountability.
Host: Lindsay Langholz, ACS Senior Director of Policy and Program
Guest: Donald Sherman, Executive Vice President and Chief Counsel, CREW
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Artificial Intelligence has the potential to affect how work is performed across industries and, in particular, within media and entertainment. Elizabeth Binczik speaks with Sarah Fowler of SAG-AFTRA to get her thoughts on how AI could impact performers’ work, the current state of the law, and how we might protect performers and people in general from AI’s risks without sacrificing AI’s benefits.
Host: Elizabeth Binczik, Director of Policy and Program for Economic Justice for ACS
Guest: Sarah Luppen Fowler, Senior Deputy General Counsel, SAG-AFTRA (affiliation included for identification purposes only)
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