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Recent Events at ACS@YLS

Click here for programming during the 2006-2007 school year.

(in reverse chronological order)

"Pay the Piper, Call the Tune? A discussion with Thomas Hiblink of the Soros Foundation - Thursday, May 1 @ 6:30 pm in room 109.

 

"Ending the Electoral College: Can 11 state legislatures trump the Constitution?" - Thursday, May 1 @ 1:10pm in room 127.

- Co-sponsored with the Yale Law Democrats and Yale Law Republicans.

The Interstate Compact for a National Popular Vote would guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes nationwide -- thus bypassing the Electoral College system without a constitutional amendment. This compact is now law in three states (MD, NJ, IL), and bills are pending in almost every other state legislature. Will this National Popular Vote initiative succeed? Whom will it benefit? Is it a triumph of federalism or an ill-fated constitutional end-run? Join the discussion...

Panelists: Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School professor; Jamie Raskin, Maryland State Senator and American University law professor; John Samples, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Representative Government

 

"The NLRB in a Post-Bush Administration" with Prof. Ben Sachs - Wednesday, April 30 @ 12:10pm in room 121.

 

"The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement - and How Progressives Should Respond" - Tuesday, April 29 @ 6:30pm in room 127 (with Indian dinner).

Join YLS Professors Jack Balkin, Robert Post and Reva Siegel, along with Prof. Stephen Teles, as they discuss his new book.

Dahilia Lithwick of Slate had this to say about the book: "In a terrific new book, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, professor Steven M. Teles charts the success of the conservative legal establishment over the past several decades. Digging past liberal clichés about an all-powerful Federalist Society tree fort, Teles charts a complicated countermobilization that took place in legal academia and conservative public-interest law, against law schools and a government in thrall with liberal ideas. He chronicles the rise of a multifaceted organizational and institutional structure that has become the only game in town."

The first chapter of the book is available to read for free online; and check out National Review Online for an audio clip of an interview Prof. Teles gave about the book.

"Prosecuting Military Atrocities: The Mi Lai Case" - Tuesday, April 29 @ 12:10pm in room 122 (with lunch).

- Cosponsored by the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization.

Join us for a discussion with Lee Calligaro, Former JAG Action Officer, who served as the Legal Counsel to the Special Criminal Investigative Task Force for the Mi Lai Massacre.

"Sentenced to Marriage"- Monday, April 28 @ 8:00pm in room 128 (with Thai dinner).

- Cosponsored with The Graduate Programs, and Law Students for Reproductive Justice.

Description from the film's website:

"This shocking documentary exposes the Kafkaesque process of divorce for women in Israel, where secular law does not exist, and divorce is dealt with according to archaic and fundamentalist orthodox Jewish law. Filmmaker Anat Zuria, maker of the award-winning Purity, gained rare access to the rabbinical courts to follow three women caught in the demoralizing legal labyrinth. Though husbands can live with other women and even withhold child support, wives are forbidden contact with other men.

In some cases, these very modern, independent and well-educated women are forced to buy a divorce from their husbands for huge sums. As a result, thousands of Jewish women have lived in limbo indefinitely, both in Israel and in otther in other communities around the world."

 

"Privilege or Shield? The Use & Abuse of the State Secrets Doctrine"- Monday, April 28 @ 1:10pm in room 127 (with non-pizza lunch).

Join us for a great panel on the growth - and growing abuse - of the state secrets doctrine, with:

 

"The HUD in a Post-Bush Administration" with Prof. Bob Ellickson - Wednesday, April 23 @ 12:10pm in room 121.

 

"Farm Subsidies: Who Do They Help? Who Do They Hurt?" - Tuesday, April 22 @ 1:10pm in room 124 (*non-pizza, Passover-friendly lunch served).

- Cosponsored with YELA..

Join Agricultural Economist Michael Roberts, of the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Jim Lyons, Vice President for Policy and Communications of Oxfam America, as they discuss the global and domestics winners and losers of U.S. farm subsidies.

 

"Is Death Different? Two Practitioner's Views of the Current State of America's Capital Jurisprudence" - Monday, April 21 @ 6:15 pm in room 122 (with burritos for dinner).

- Cosponsored with the Capital Assistance Project, Yale Law Republicans, and Yale Law Students for Life.

George Kouros (YLS '02), a current member of the Federal Capital Habeas Project here in New Haven, CT, and Joe Whalen, the Deputy Solicitor General of Tennessee, will discuss the current state of death penalty law and its effects on defendants, victims families, and the lawyers representing each side. Questions to be addressed include the impact of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and other important issues that the media ignores. We hope for a vigorous discussion on how death penalty law is being practiced around the country and problems each side sees with the current practice. We also hope you all will come and feel free to ask your own questions about capital punishment practice for both defenders and prosecutors. YLS Professor Kate Stith will moderate.

 

"The Future of Public Interest Law" with Ray Brescia - Thursday, April 17 @ 6:10pm in room 121 (*dinner provided*)

Ray Brescia (YLS '92), currently a visiting assistant professor at Albany Law School, and formerly the Associate Director of the Urban Justice Center in New York City (where he raised over $5 million in public and private grants in support of the UJC's efforts), will talk about recent developments that will greatly impact the career paths of future public interest lawyers, like globalization, severe cutbacks in traditional funding for public interest advocacy and major changes in the philanthropic world.  Ray will argue that these developments require a new, solutions-based approach to progressive lawyering.

 

"Mekong Butterflies": a film screening - Tuesday, April 15 @ 6:10pm - 8:30 in room 129 (*dinner provided*).

- Co-sponsored by Yale Law Women, Yale Law Students for Reproductive Justice, and The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights.

Join Dr. Pierre Le Roux, a social anthropologist, and Christina Arnold, founder of Prevent Human Trafficking, for a viewing of the documentary film "Mekong Butterflies" and a presentation on their field experience with sex workers, pimps, local informants, policemen, investigators, and experts. A discussion and Q&A session will follow the documentary.

 

"State & Local Strategies for National Progress" with Alex Knopp (former mayor of Norwalk, Conn. and former state delegate) - Monday, April 14 @ 1:10pm in room 128 (*lunch provided*).

Join YLS Visiting Clinical Lecturer Alex Knopp, who served as Mayor of Norwalk ('01-05), State Representative ('87-01) and City Councilman ('83-86) for an informal discussion about how to get started in the local and state electoral process and review real-world progressive municipal policies in Connecticut.

 

"Keeping a Public Interest Focus" with Judge Abner Mikva, former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit - Thursday, April 10 @ 1:10pm in room 129 (*lunch provided*)

- Cosponsored with the Yale Law Journal.

Judge Abner Mikva YLS  is one of those rare public servants - perhaps the only one - to have served in every branch of federal government.  He began his career as U.S. Congressman from Illinois (after serving in the Illinois state congress), then became a federal judge - eventually becoming the Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit, and then served as White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton.  His dedication to public service is unparalleled - nearly his entire career has been spent serving the public interest.

His talk, “Keeping a Public Interest Focus," will be about just that: How can law students think proactively and optimistically about keeping a focus on public interest law, in light of the many competing pressures they face regarding career expectations, income (and paying off school debt), and family?  We hope you join us for this terrific talk from one of our finest American public servants.

 

"Beyond Borders: The Debate Over Human Migration": a film screening - Wednesday, April 9 @ 6:10pm in room 127 (*non-pizza dinner provided*).

- Consponsored with the Latino Law Students Association, Civil Rights Project, Workers Rights Project, and the National Lawyers Guild.

Film Synopsis (from the film's webpage): Beyond Borders moves past the headlines and takes an in-depth look at the hot-button issues of legal and illegal immigration. Beyond Borders explores the psychological forces driving the immigration controversy from both sides of the debate. Anti-immigration activists demand we stop this "illegal alien invasion,” while some pro-immigration forces speak of a Reconquista, a reclaiming of the American Southwest by Mexico. In search of a middle ground, Beyond Borders travels across the U.S. and beyond to give voices to those on the front-line of this issue, including candid interviews with Border Patrol agents, radio celebrities, demographers, the Minute Men, potential migrants, and a host of experts including Noam Chomsky (Distorted Morality) and Gustavo Arellano (Ask A Mexican). Beyond Borders is an entertaining and enlightening film that asks: Is migration a basic human right?

After the 75-minute film, a Q&A will follow with the film's producer, Dave Szamet; its executive director, Simon Burrow, and YLS Prof. Owen Fiss (who appears in the movie).

 

"The Federal Abortion Ban & Kennedy: Impressions of a Long-Time Litigator" w/ Priscilla Smith - Tuesday, April 8 @ 5:00pm in room 122 (*Thai food dinner provided*).

- Consponsored with Law Students of Reproductive Justice.

Join Priscilla Smith, former director of the Center for Reproductive Rights, as she discusses her role litigating Gonzales v. Carhart before the Supreme Court. 

 

Film Screening: "Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath" with filmmaker Valarie Kaur (YLS '11) & Prof. Amy Chua - Monday, April 7 @ 7:00pm in room 127.

- Consponsored with PANA, GPSS, ISPS, SALSA, Yale Civil Rights Project, Muslim Law Students’ Association, the Council on Middle Eastern Studies, and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Please join us for the Yale screening of "Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath," a powerful feature-length documentary film on hate violence in the aftermath of 9/11 that has media outlets like NPR, BBC and CNN talking. Featuring a Q&A with filmmaker Valarie Kaur (YLS '11) and introduction by Professor of Law Amy Chua

About the Movie: Driven to action by the murder of a turbaned man in her community, a college student drives across America in the aftermath of 9/11 to discover stories that did not make the evening news. From the still-shocked streets of Ground Zero to the desert towns of the American West, Valarie Kaur's inspiring journey uncovers remarkable stories of hate violence, fear, and unspeakable loss until she finds the heart of America halfway around the world, in the words of widow. Divided We Fall examines how Americans react to the perceived "other" in times of war and deftly explores race, religion, and identity in times of national crisis. This must-see film has been praised as "a moving portrait of one of America's rawest periods, and grips the viewer from its very first scenes."

Filmmaker Valarie Kaur is a third-generation Sikh American born and raised in Clovis, California, and a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Divinity School. She began the five-year journey to make this film in 2001 when she was an undergraduate at Stanford. The world premiere of Divided We Fall in September 2006 sent Valarie on a packed international speaking and screening tour which continues today. She has been invited as an authority on the subject at more than one hundred universities, colleges, and religious centers across the country. She has been featured in print, radio and television media including CNN, NPR, the BBC, and Frances Moore Lappe's book You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear. The State of California recently presented Valarie with an official commendation recognizing her work as a scholar, activist, and storyteller. Valarie presently serves as founding director of the Discrimination and National Security Initiative at the Harvard Pluralism Project. Valarie will be matriculating into Yale Law School in the fall.

 

"Building Consensus on the Court" with Judge M. Blaine Michael (4th Cir.) and Judge Kermit V. Lipez (1st Cir.) - Monday, April 7 @ 1:10pm in room 129 (*non-pizza lunch provided*)

In ideologically divided circuits, building consensus becomes one of the key features of judicial decision-making.  Join two fantastic appellate judges from divided circuits, Judge M. Blane Michael (4th Cir.) and Judge Kermit V. Lipez YLS '67 (1st Cir.) as they discuss the challenges and benefits of building consensus on the court.  Their discussion will be moderated by Prof. Mike Wishnie.  All are welcome.

About Judge Lipez:
Judge Lipez received a B.A. from Haverford College in 1963 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1967.  He was awarded a Master of Laws in Judicial Process from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1990.  After graduation from Yale he was a staff attorney in  the Attorney General's Honors Program, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division in 1967-1968.  From 1968-1971 he served as Special Assistant and Legal Counsel to Governor Kenneth M. Curtis of Maine.  He was a Legislative Aide to Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine in 1971-1972.  From 1973-1975 Judge Lipez was a sole practitioner in Portland, Maine.  In February 1975 he established a law firm in Portland with several friends, including former Governor Curtis.  After ten years with the law firm, he became a Maine Superior Court Justice, serving  from June 1985 to May 1994.  He then became a member of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, serving from May 1994 to July 1998.  In July 1998 he became a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  From January, 2001 to January 2008, Judge Lipez was Chair of the Justice Action Group, Maine's Access to Justice entity responsible for coordinating the work of Maine's legal services providers and helping to increase the resources available for those efforts.

About Judge Michael
Blane Michael was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit by President Clinton in 1993.  Judge Michael graduated from West Virginia University in 1965 (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) with an A.B. in Political Science.  He received his J.D. in 1968 from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar.  For three years following graduation, Judge Michael practiced law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City.  Thereafter, in 1971 and 1972 he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York.  He was Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of West Virginia for a few months at the end of 1972, and for the next two years he practiced law by himself in a small West Virginia town.  In 1975 Judge Michael returned to work in the public sector.  He was a law clerk to Judge Robert E. Maxwell, N.D. W.Va., from 1975-76, and he was counsel to Governor John D. Rockefeller IV from 1977-80.  Michael was active in West Virginia politics for many years, serving as campaign manager on several occasions for Governor (and Senator) Rockefeller and for Senator Robert C. Byrd.  For the thirteen years prior to his appointment as a judge, Michael worked as a litigator, doing both trial and appellate work, in a large firm in Charleston, West Virginia.

 

"The Human Cost of the War on Terror" with James Yee and Brandon Mayfield - Monday, April 7 @ 12:10pm in room 127 (*lunch provided*).

- Cosponsored with the Muslim Law Students Association, Davenport College, Political Science Department, Council on Middle East Studies, the MacMillan Center, Yale University Chaplain's Office, the Asian American Cultural Center, and the Social Justice Network.

Chaplain James Yee, former U.S. Army Chaplain who served as the Muslim Chaplain for the U.S.prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. After being officially recognized twice for outstanding performance, Captain Yee was arrested and imprisoned in a Naval brig for 76 days in September 2003 while being falsely accused of spying, espionage, and aiding the alleged Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners.  He was held in solitary confinement and subjected to the same sensory deprivation techniques that were being used against Guantanamo prisoners and those declared as enemy combatants.

Brandon Mayfield, an American lawyer best known for being erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and for his successful challenge to key  portions of the Patriot Act. On May 6, 2004, the FBI  arrested Mayfield as a material witness in connection with the Madrid attacks and held him for over two weeks before releasing him. Mayfield was never charged, and an FBI internal review later acknowledged serious errors in their investigation.

 

"The EPA in a Post-Bush Government" with Prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman - Wednesday, April 2 @ 12:10pm in room 110.

 

"Regulating Hate Speech" - Tuesday, April 1 @ 6:30pm in room 127.

- Cosponsored with the Black Law Students Association and the Federalist Society.

 

"The Role of Men in Advancing the Work-Life Agenda" - Thursday, March 27 @ 12:30pm in room 122 (*lunch provided*)

- Cosponsored with the Women's Faculty Forum (WFF).

 

"Drugs, Development, & Universities" - Tuesday, March 25 @ 6:10pm in room 129.

- Cosponsored with Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics.

This panel will examine the role that universities can and should play in developing and delivering essential medicines to developing countries. Universities can enhance access to medicines in poor countries in at least two ways: spurring discovery and innovation and expanding access. First, as the largest recipients of federal NIH (and other research) funding, university labs are and should be the sites of critical innovation for essential medicines. Second, as recipients of federal patents for new discoveries and as signatories to scores of licensing agreements with pharmaceutical companies each year, universities could play a key role in expanding access to their patented drugs abroad. A third role which universities could play in this process is forging partnerships with scientists and schools in developing countries, to help developing countries become sites of innovation for essential medicines as well.

Given the large role that universities could play in spurring access to essential medicines to solve major worth health crises, how well are they living up to this task? What activities are universities doing on the innovation, access, and partnership fronts? What barriers do labs, scientists, and entrepreneurs in developing countries face to research and innovation for essential medicines?

 

ACS Election Info-session - Monday, March 24 @ 7:30 p.m. in room 122.

 

"A New Labor Policy Agenda" with Paul Sonn (YLS '92) - Monday, March 24 @ 6:10pm in room 122 (*dinner provided*).

- Cosponsored with the Workers' Rights Project (WRP).

With growing grassroots organizing in the states and recognition of the economic anxiety of the working and middle class, on several fronts there is the first serious opportunity in decades to modernization key aspects of our how we structure our labor markets. Paul Sonn, Legal Director of the National Employment Law Project, will give an overview of components of a new U.S. labor market policy agenda for the new congress and next presidential administration that the labor movement and immigrant worker advocates are beginning to think through.

 

 

ACS Community Dinners Weekly, starting on Sun., Feb. 10 @ 7:00pm (East Rock)

ACS Community dinners are here! Want a wholesome veggie home meal with your ACS friends? Signup here, and then come to the kickoff community dinner this Sunday (2/10) at 7:00pm in East Rock (address and menu to be sent to those on the email list).

Here's how it will work: At the kickoff dinner, those who decide they want to stay in the community dinner group for the rest of the Spring (a dozen or more dinners!) will form into groups of 2-4 and choose one night this semester to host. Each week, hosts will send out an invite to the list and describe their scrumptious veggie menu, the time and place, and how many people they can cook for (10 per host). Then everyone else just rsvps and shows up to the dinner they prefer. You cook just once and get to eat a dozen or more times throughout the semester! Clean up is easy enough too because, as the Forestry students taught us with their own veggie dinners, the rule is: **Bring your own dish and utensils, 'cause we environmentalist don't do paper goods.**

Signing up on the list for this first one isn't a commitment, it just gets you the info for the kickoff. You can drop off after that with no obligation to host (or if you want to crash once or twice, but not host, you can do that and just donate $10 to Yale ACS's community events fund).

"Progressive Lawyering in Oakland, California," Monday, Feb. 11 @ 12:10pm (Room 122) *non-pizza lunch provided*

- Cosponsored with the Liman Public Interest Program

Come hear John Russo, City Attorney of Oakland and YLS alum, talk about progressive lawyering in Oakland, California. Specifically, John will be discussing Oakland's Neighborhood Law Corps and his office's other affirmative litigation projects. John will also discuss the role of city attorneys more generally, and take your questions.

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"The Fundamental Right to (Keep Your) Same-Sex Marriage" Tuesday, Feb. 12 @ 6:10pm (Room 121) *dinner provided*

- Cosponsored with Outlaws & the LGBT Rights Litigation Clinic

Same-sex couples can legally marry in Massachusetts, and soon perhaps other places as well. But what happens when a couple moves to a state that declares same-sex marriages illegal? Even if the Constitution doesn't yet give gay and lesbian couples everywhere the right to get married, does it give them the right to remain married? Drawing on the Supreme Court's family-privacy and gay-rights cases, as well as principles from common law and federalism, this presentation will argue that it does.

Speaker Bio: Steve Sanders is an attorney in the Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice group of Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago. He is active with ACS nationally, and was counsel to a group of law and history professors as amici curiae in Varnum v. Brien, the case in which an Iowa court last summer struck down that state's prohibition on same-sex marriage.

Senator Chuck Schumer, Friday, Feb. 15 @ 3:10pm (Room 127)

Friday, Dec. 14 @ 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., room 120 - "Democracy's Ghosts: How 5.3 million Americans Have Lost the Right to Vote" (homemade baked goos provided)

Consponsored with the Green Haven Prison Project

"Democracy's Ghosts" is short (34 minute) film on felon disenfranchisement; a discussion will follow the screening.

 

Wednesday, Dec. 12 @ 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Playwright - Sex-Ed Trivia Night

Consponsored with Law Students for Reproductive Justice

Appetizers and Prizes will be provided -bring your own team name!

 

Wednesday, Dec. 12 @ 12:00 a.m. - noon, Dining Hall - Men's Bake Sale for Choice.

Consponsored with Law Students for Reproductive Justice

Come to the Dining Hall and enjoy delicious man-made baked goods! All proceeds benefit MADRE, a global organization dedicated to human rights for women and families.

 

Monday, Dec. 10 @ 12:10 p.m., room 124 -“Administration of Torture”: A Book Talk w/ Amrit Singh (Staff Attorney, ACLU Imm. Rts. Project) (non- pizza lunch provided).

Cosponsored by the 9/11 Clinic and the Schell Center for International Human Rights.

Join Amrit Singh (YLS ‘01), Staff Attorney for the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, as she discusses her new book, Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. Ms. Singh has investigated allegations of torture at American prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, fighting for the release of thousands of documents under the Freedom of Information Act. She is a tireless advocate for immigrants’ rights, and her book is the latest testament to that effort.

 

Thursday, Dec. 6 @ 1:10 p.m., room 128 - “Organizing Non-Traditional and Immigrant Intensive Communities” with Bhairavi Desai (lunch provided).

Co-sponsored by the Workers Rights Project (WRP) and the South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA).

Bhairavi Desai is the founder and lead organizer of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (TWA), a membership organization which since 1997 has organized and advocated for yellow cab drivers in NYC. Drivers lease their cabs and medallions from fleet owners and brokers, and so are classified as independent contractors, unable to form or join a union under the NLRA. Driving a cab is the second most dangerous job in NYC -- only police officers encounter higher rates of violence on the job. Not surprisingly, for a job with low pay, long hours, and extremely dangerous conditions, it is in NYC a predominantly immigrant workforce, with especially large numbers of South Asian and Haitian drivers.

Bhairavi has pioneered creative, militant strategies with TWA, including a recent series of rolling one-day strikes this fall. She is young, brilliant, fearless, charismatic, and extraordinarily articulate. Join us for a great talk about organizing in non-traditional and immigrant-intensive industries.

 

Wednesday, Dec. 5 @ 1:10 p.m., room TBA: "Progressive Domestic Violence Lawyering: Serving Immigrant Communities" with Cover Fellow Camille Carey (Non-pizza lunch provided).

Co-sponsored by the Liman Public Interest Program and Yale Law Women.

Cover Fellow Camille Carey will speak about representing victims of domestic violence in immigrant communities and will introduce the new domestic violence clinic at Yale Law School. Prior to coming to Yale, Ms. Carey worked at The Legal Aid Society of New York and created a project providing comprehensive legal services to immigrant victims of domestic violence. She represented clients in immigration, family law, and public benefits cases and appeared in family court, state court, administrative law hearings, immigration court, federal court, and in affirmative cases with the immigration service. She was counsel on MKB v. Eggleston, a class action lawsuit that successfully challenged New York City and State’s systemic denial of public benefits to eligible immigrants. Since arriving at Yale, Ms. Carey has taught in the Community Lawyering and the Community and Economic Development clinics. Next semester, she will teach the new Domestic Violence clinic.

 

 

Tuesday, Dec. 4 @ 11:10am in room 128: "Conversations Across the Courtyard: Immigration" with Professors Mike Wishnie and Peter Schuck (**Non-Pizza Lunch Provided**)

Co-sponsored with the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization (LSO).

A conversation on immigration federalism with the two immigration experts at YLS.
For those attending, you might read Prof. Schuck’s short piece entitled “Bordering on Folly” and his just-published piece “Taking Immigration Federalism Seriously,” at 2007 U Chi Legal F 57.

Prof. Wishnie has a piece on immigration federalism entitled “Laboratories of Bigotry? Devolution of the Immigration Power, Equal Protection, and Federalism,” at 76 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 493 (2001); his most recent piece is “Prohibiting the Employment of Unauthorized Immigrants: The Experiment Fails,” available at 2007 U Chi Legal F 193.

 

Monday, Nov. 26 @ 6:10 in room 128: "Prison Reform Litigation: From Ruiz v. Estelle to Now" (**Dinner Provided**)

Co-sponsored with the Liman Public Interest Fellowship & Fund

A conversation on prison reform litigation with:

 

Tuesday, Nov. 6 @ 6:30 in room 128: "Covering the Court" with Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSBlog.

 

Tuesday, Nov. 6 @ 7:10 in room 120: "The Fair Haven Immigration Raids: Community & Legal Responses."

A panel discussion on the June 7 immigration raids with:

Co-sponsored with the Yale Civil Rights Project & the Latino Law Students Association (LLSA). Dinner Provided.

 

Wednesday, Nov. 7 @ 1:10 in room 121: "The Future of GLBT Litigation" with James Esseks, Legal Director of the ACLU Gay & Lesbian Rights Project.

 

Tuesday, October 30 @ 6:10 in room 128: "Technology in Progressive Campaigns."

 

Tuesday, October 16 @ 12:10-1:00 in room 122: Lenora Lapidus, Director, ACLU Women's Rights Project, "Defining a Women's Rights Agenda for the 21st Agenda: New Strategies for Advancing Women's Equality in Light of the Supreme Court Rollback of Civil Rights."

 

 

Tuesday, October 9 @ 12:00 in room 122: Professor David Cole, Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror (with pizza lunch)

In the name of preventing another terrorist attack, the U.S. government since 9/11 has sacrificed fundamental commitments to the rule of law – from asserting unchecked executive power to violate
criminal laws and spy on Americans without warrants, to holding suspects indefinitely in Guantanamo's law-free zone.  The Bush administration has defended these initiatives as part of a new "paradigm of prevention," in which the United States uses harshly coercive measures not to hold those responsible for proven bad acts, but to prevent terrorist conduct that we fear might occur in the future.  In Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, David Cole and Jules Lobel argue that these sacrifices in our commitment to the rule of law have ironically made us not safer, but in fact more vulnerable to future terrorist attacks.

David Cole is a professor of law at Georgetown University, legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and author, most recently, of the American Book Award–winning Enemy Aliens. He lives in Washington, D.C.  Jules Lobel is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and has written and litigated extensively in the area of war and emergency power, including his recent book Success Without Victory. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Later on Tuesday, at 5:30 pm, head to Labyrinth to hear David Cole discuss his book with Professor Owen Fiss.

 

Monday, October 8 @ 4:10 in room 129: Christine Lehman, New Orleans, LA Public Defenders Office

 

Monday, October 8 @ 1:10 in room 129: the 2L Non-FIP Job Search

There are many great summer jobs out there beyond what FIP has to offer, and we at ACS want to help those of you engaged in the non-FIP job search to find out where and how to look. To that end, we have a great 5-person panel of speakers lined up to talk about the ins and outs of the 2L non-FIP job search:

If you’re a 2L who’s looking for non-FIP job options for the summer (or a 1L who’s curious), come join us!

 

Thursday, October 4 @ 4:10 in room 129: Professor Goodwin Liu (YLS '98), The Future of Civil Rights Litigation

 

Friday, September 28 @ 10:00 a.m. in the Levinson Auditorium: A Talk with Justices Anthony Kennedy & Stephen Breyer.

 

Thursday, September 27 @ 8:00 (location TBA): ACS Kick-Off Party!

 

Thursday, September 27 @ 8:00 (Black Bear Saloon): ACS Kick-Off Party!

 

Thursday, September 27 @ 6:00-7:30 (Room 128): "Digital Democracy: Is the Race to Adopt E-Voting Leaving our Voting Rights Behind?"

 

Thursday, September 27 @ 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. in the Faculty Lounge: "Reproductive Freedoms in a Comparative Setting"

Click here for more information and the judgments the Justices will be discussing.

 

Tuesday, September 25 @ 7:30 in room 127: ACS Intro Meeting

 

Thursday, September 20 @ 6:10 in room 127: What Remains of Roe v. Wade?: Reproductive Justice after the Federal Abortion Ban

 

Thursday, September 20 @ 6:00 - 7:30: Activities Fair in the YLS Courtyard (Note the new day and time)

 

Tuesday, September 18 @ 6:10: Introductory Meeting of the Fall ACS Reading Group

 

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