Jarrett Adams is interviewed about the law, his involvement with ACS, and his advice to future lawyers at the 2015 ACS National Convention
Tag: 2015 ACS National Convention
Disparate Impact in the Crosshairs
- Hon. Theodore McKee, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- William Consovoy, Partner, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC
- Elizabeth Julian, President, Inclusive Communities Project
- Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Neil S. Siegel, David W. Ichel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the Program in Public Law, and Director of the D.C. Summer Institute on Law and Policy, Duke Law School
2015 National Convention - Student Chapter Awards
Awards for the Constance Baker Motley Writing Competition, ACS Student Chapters Awards, Reproductive Justice Award, and Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law are handed out at the 2015 ACS National Convention.
The Dangers of Injecting Secrecy into the Death Penalty
- Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times
- Mark Earley, Founder and Principal, Earley Legal Group; Member, Death Penalty Committee, The Constitution Project
- Tanya Greene, Advocacy and Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union
- Megan McCracken, Eighth Amendment Resource Counsel, Death Penalty Clinic, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- Katie Townsend, Litigation Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Skewed Justice: How Money in Judicial Elections is Undermining our Criminal Justice System
A recent ACS report, Skewed Justice, found that the current explosion in spending on television attack ads in state supreme court elections has made courts less likely to rule in favor of defendants in criminal appeals. This influx of money to judicial elections - due in large part the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United - means that judges are under increasing pressure to act like politicians by avoiding damaging attack ads and burnishing their "tough on crime" bona fides at the expense of real people facing criminal prosecution. Coupled with structural inequities that critics claim make it difficult for defendants to obtain real justice, does money in judicial elections threaten the legitimacy of our criminal justice system? What doe the experiences of judges teach us about how to maintain an independent judiciary in the face of these pressures? What role can those who represent the criminally accused play in protecting a criminal defendant's due process rights to an impartial judge?
Speakers:
- Erica Hashimoto, Allen Post Professor of Law and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor, University of Georgia School of Law
- Hon. Sue Bell Cobb, Former Chief Justice, Alabama Supreme Court
- Tracey George, Professor of Law and Political Science, Vanderbilt University
- David Kopel, Research Director, Independence Institute; Associate Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; Adjunct Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
- Nkechi Taifa, Senior Policy Analyst, Open Society Foundations
The Digital Age on the Global Stage: Can the Law Keep Up?
- Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO, National Constitution Center
- Anupam Chander, Director, California International Law Center; Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
- Mieke Eoyang, Director, National Security Program, Third Way
- Orin Kerr, Fred C. Stevenson ,Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
- Greg Nojeim, Director, Freedom, Security and Technology Project, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Kate Westmoreland, Non-Residential Fellow, Stanford Center for Internet and Society