ACS National Convention PATRIOTS or TRADERS: American Constitution Society Fri Aug 1 14:34:40 2003 64.140.158.100 http://www.madisonsociety.org/ The American Constitution Society is a national organization of law students, law professors, practicing lawyers, and others. We seek to revitalize and transform the legal debate, from our classrooms to our courtrooms. We seek to counter the dominant vision of American law today, a narrow conservative vision that lacks appropriate regard for the ways in which the law affects people's lives. We seek to restore the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful—and traditionally central—place in American law. More on our Goals http://www.madisonsociety.org/Goals.htm# 2003 National Convention The 2003 ACS National Convention will take place August 1-3 in Washington, DC. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg # Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Janet Reno, many others to speak at ACS National Conventio * Senator Clinton, former Attorney General Reno, Others to Join Justice Ginsburg at ACS National Convention http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#speakers * Gun Control Discussion Draws Overflow Crowd to DC Lawyer Chapter Lunch http://www.madisonsociety.org/News.htm#junelunch * Chicago Lawyer Chapter Kickoff Event: May 15th http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#chicago * Reno Blasts Ashcroft for 9/11 Statement http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#reno * Senator John Edwards Speaks at Iowa Kickoff Event http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#edwardsiowa * ACS Leaders Address Harvard BLSA and Robert Cover Conferences http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#BLSA * Using ACS Network, Nearly 14,000 Law Students Join Brief in Recently Decided U. Michigan Cases http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#Amicus Clinton, Reno, Others to Join Justice Ginsburg at ACS National Convention ACS has accelerated planning for our first National Convention, which will be held August 1-3, 2003, at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. As previously announced, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will address the convention. She will speak at a dinner on August 2. Among others already confirmed as participants at the ACS National Convention are: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Judges Richard Arnold, Rosemary Barkett. Deborah Batts, Helen Berrigan, Guido Calabresi, William Fletcher, John Gibbons, J. Michael Luttig, Boyce Martin, Theodore McKee, Abner Mikva, Diana Gribbon Motz, Robert Pratt, Louis Oberdorfer, Stephen Reinhardt, David Tatel, and Patricia Wald; Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Cantwell and Charles Mathias; and Jonathan Adler, Nan Aron, Fred Baron, Paul Begala, James Bopp, Alan Brinkley, Carol Browner, Ira Burnim, Elizabeth Cabraser, Bradley Campbell, Erwin Chemerinsky, Daniel Collins, Joseph Curran, Angela Davis, Drew Days, Walter Dellinger, Maria Echaveste, Christopher Edley, William Eskridge, Cynthia Estlund, Martin Flaherty, Connie Garner, Suzanne Goldberg, Willis Goldsmith, Marcia Greenberger, Kent Greenfield, Jim Hecker, Wade Henderson, Antonia Hernandez, Jon Hiatt, Eric Holder, Dawn Johnsen, Elaine Jones, Elena Kagan, Pamela Karlan, Sally Katzen, Bill Lann Lee, Judy Lichtman, Goodwin Liu, William Marshall, Ray Marshall, Suzanne Martinez, Arlene Mayerson, Frank Michelman, Kate Michelman, Paul Miller, Cheryl Mills, Alan Morrison, Ralph Neas, Gene Nichol, Beth Nolan, Spencer Overton, Deval Patrick, John Payton, John Podesta, Michael Posner, Robert Post, Janet Reno, Anthony Romero, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Jed Rubenfeld, Laurie Rubiner, Diann Rust-Tierney, Christopher Schroeder, Victor Schwartz, Reva Siegel, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Paul Smith, Gene Sperling, Bryan Stevenson, Nadine Strossen, Daniel Tarullo, James Tierney, Tony Varona, Rob Weiner, Roger Wilkins and Evan Wolfson. The National Convention will include panel discussions, speeches and other activities addressing a wide range of issues from civil rights to environmental law. The convention also will give ACS members, including students, academics, lawyers and judges, the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and discuss strategies for achieving common goals. More information regarding the National Convention, including a complete list of panels and dozens more scheduled speakers, will soon be available. Click here for the most up-to-date information. ACS Featured in The Nation The June 16th edition of The Nation features a profile of ACS by Alexander Wohl, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Justice, Law, and Society at American University. Wohl's piece describes the history of ACS and details the excitement it has generated among progressive lawyers and students nationwide. The article appears on page 6. Click here to read it online. Gun Control Discussion Draws Dozens to DC Lawyer Chapter Lunch On June 4th, the monthly DC Lawyer Chapter lunch attracted an overflow crowd to the China Doll restaurant to hear remarks on gun control by Matthew Nosanchuk of the Violence Policy Center. Braving a hard, driving rain, over 65 Lawyer Chapter members, new summer associates, and members of the gun control community packed the room, requiring the China Doll staff to roll out additional tables to accommodate the group. Fresh off the first phase of the NAACP's suit against gun manufacturers - in which he serves as co-counsel - Nosanchuk described a challenging environment for gun control litigation and legislation. With the Republican Congress poised to limit all civil liability for gun makers and many Democrats running scared from the gun issue, the politics and policy of gun control look unfavorable. But Nosunchuk noted that the American public continues to favor reasonable gun control in almost every poll taken on the topic. Nosanchuk pointed out that case law in nearly every federal circuit continues to reject an absolute right to bear arms. How far the Bush Administration can get pushing its NRA-aligned vision of gun rights, he argued, will depend on how hard others push back. Chicago Lawyer Chapter Kickoff Features Paul Begala, Roslyn Lieb, Larry Rogers, and Geoffrey Stone http://www.madisonsociety.org/News.htm Goals Janet Reno addresses members at a Summer 2001 ACS event Formed in Spring 2001, The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy is a national organization of law students, law professors, practicing lawyers and others. We want to help revitalize and transform the legal debate, from law school classrooms to federal courtrooms. We want to counter the dominant vision of American law today, a narrow conservative vision that lacks appropriate regard for the ways in which the law affects people's lives. We seek to restore the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful—and traditionally central—place in American law. The American Constitution Society is a non-partisan, non-profit educational organization. We do not, as an organization, lobby, litigate, or take positions on specific issues, cases, legislation, or nominations. We do encourage our members to express their views and make their voices heard. Speakers at ACS events have included Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Tom Harkin, Edward Kennedy, and Paul Wellstone; Reps. Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, Jesse Jackson, Jr., and Bob Barr; former Governor Michael Dukakis; former Rep. Robert Drinan; former Atty. General Janet Reno; former judge and White House Counsel Abner Mikva; former judge Patricia Wald; federal judges Ann Aiken, William Bryant, Ruben Castillo, Robin J. Cauthron, David Coar, Andre Davis, Michael J. Davis, William Fletcher, Marvin Garbis, John Gleeson, Joan Gottschall, David Hamilton, Michael Daly Hawkins, Ellen Segal Huvelle, Nathaniel Jones, William Wayne Justice, Alex Kozinski, Gerard Lynch, Paul Magnuson, Michael McCuskey, Diana Gribbon Motz, Louis Oberdorfer, Robert Pratt, Jed S. Rakoff, Stephen Reinhardt, James Rosenbaum, Edmund Sargus, Shira Scheindlin, Mary Schroeder Sonia Sotomayor, and David Tatel; Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Jones; Arizona Supreme Court Justice Stanley Feldman; former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Thomas Zlakat; former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder; former Solicitors General Drew Days, Walter Dellinger, and Seth Waxman; former Asst. Atty. General Deval Patrick; former White House counsel Beth Nolan; Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano; Common Cause president and former Mass. Atty. Gen. Scott Harshbarger; Harvard law professors Laurence Tribe and Christopher Edley; Ralph Nader; NAACP LDF president Elaine Jones; Public Citizen attorney Alan Morrison; Trial Lawyers for Public Justice exec. director Arthur Bryant; ACLU exec. director Anthony Romero; ACLU president Nadine Strossen; Alliance For Justice president Nan Aron; People for the American Way president Ralph Neas; and LAMBDA Legal Defense Fund Director Ruth Harlow. American Constitution Society Organization Campus Chapters Georgetown ACS President David Fauvre speaks to the crowd about the goals and the progress of the ACS before Senator Clinton takes the stage at a Georgetown chapter ACS event on March 12, 2002. Campus chapters are at the heart of the American Constitution Society. The American Constitution Society began with a chapter organized by law students at Georgetown University. Now we have more than 50 chapters on campuses across the country, and we are working with students and faculty to launch additional chapters. We hope that, through our campus chapters, law students will gain a greater understanding of the legitimacy of a vision of the law that gives human values a central place. As new students begin the process of learning to “think like lawyers,” we believe the activities of these chapters – speeches, debates, symposia, student meetings, reasearch and writing projects – will demonstrate to them that rigorous legal thinking does not require the abandonment of such values. We expect that our student chapters will create a community for like-minded students, and introduce them to faculty, practitioners, former and current government officials, and public interest advocates who share their values. Our chapters have become central meeting places for the exchange of opportunities for bringing positive change to the law. Our national organization assists campus chapters with administrative issues, with obtaining speakers, and with defraying the costs of some chapter programs. American Constitution Society for Law and Policy - info@acslaw.org 50 F Street NW Suite 5200 Washington, DC 20001 (202) 393-6181 !!! A C T I O N A L E R T !!! - Flawed Energy Bill — Public Citizen, Fri Aug 1 17:38 Apologies to My Grandchildren — Grandpa Conrad, Fri Aug 1 15:42 Fierce Watchdog of the Constitution — Nat Hentoff, Fri Aug 1 18:04 2? — eauxx, Sat Aug 2 08:34 hard to reform — rainesco, Sat Aug 2 14:12 [WACO] Mt. Carmel - Request for assistance...! — Ron Goins, Fri Aug 1 14:59 The "Counter Clinton Library" — Michael, Fri Aug 1 18:55 Clintons vs, Bushes — Lou Sikes, Sat Aug 2 15:03 Who really authorized the Davidian assault plan? — rainesco, Sat Aug 2 16:32
ACS National Convention PATRIOTS or TRADERS: American Constitution Society Fri Aug 1 14:34:40 2003 64.140.158.100 http://www.madisonsociety.org/ The American Constitution Society is a national organization of law students, law professors, practicing lawyers, and others. We seek to revitalize and transform the legal debate, from our classrooms to our courtrooms. We seek to counter the dominant vision of American law today, a narrow conservative vision that lacks appropriate regard for the ways in which the law affects people's lives. We seek to restore the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful—and traditionally central—place in American law. More on our Goals http://www.madisonsociety.org/Goals.htm# 2003 National Convention The 2003 ACS National Convention will take place August 1-3 in Washington, DC. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg # Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Janet Reno, many others to speak at ACS National Conventio * Senator Clinton, former Attorney General Reno, Others to Join Justice Ginsburg at ACS National Convention http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#speakers * Gun Control Discussion Draws Overflow Crowd to DC Lawyer Chapter Lunch http://www.madisonsociety.org/News.htm#junelunch * Chicago Lawyer Chapter Kickoff Event: May 15th http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#chicago * Reno Blasts Ashcroft for 9/11 Statement http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#reno * Senator John Edwards Speaks at Iowa Kickoff Event http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#edwardsiowa * ACS Leaders Address Harvard BLSA and Robert Cover Conferences http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#BLSA * Using ACS Network, Nearly 14,000 Law Students Join Brief in Recently Decided U. Michigan Cases http://www.acslaw.org/News.htm#Amicus Clinton, Reno, Others to Join Justice Ginsburg at ACS National Convention ACS has accelerated planning for our first National Convention, which will be held August 1-3, 2003, at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. As previously announced, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will address the convention. She will speak at a dinner on August 2. Among others already confirmed as participants at the ACS National Convention are: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Judges Richard Arnold, Rosemary Barkett. Deborah Batts, Helen Berrigan, Guido Calabresi, William Fletcher, John Gibbons, J. Michael Luttig, Boyce Martin, Theodore McKee, Abner Mikva, Diana Gribbon Motz, Robert Pratt, Louis Oberdorfer, Stephen Reinhardt, David Tatel, and Patricia Wald; Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Cantwell and Charles Mathias; and Jonathan Adler, Nan Aron, Fred Baron, Paul Begala, James Bopp, Alan Brinkley, Carol Browner, Ira Burnim, Elizabeth Cabraser, Bradley Campbell, Erwin Chemerinsky, Daniel Collins, Joseph Curran, Angela Davis, Drew Days, Walter Dellinger, Maria Echaveste, Christopher Edley, William Eskridge, Cynthia Estlund, Martin Flaherty, Connie Garner, Suzanne Goldberg, Willis Goldsmith, Marcia Greenberger, Kent Greenfield, Jim Hecker, Wade Henderson, Antonia Hernandez, Jon Hiatt, Eric Holder, Dawn Johnsen, Elaine Jones, Elena Kagan, Pamela Karlan, Sally Katzen, Bill Lann Lee, Judy Lichtman, Goodwin Liu, William Marshall, Ray Marshall, Suzanne Martinez, Arlene Mayerson, Frank Michelman, Kate Michelman, Paul Miller, Cheryl Mills, Alan Morrison, Ralph Neas, Gene Nichol, Beth Nolan, Spencer Overton, Deval Patrick, John Payton, John Podesta, Michael Posner, Robert Post, Janet Reno, Anthony Romero, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Jed Rubenfeld, Laurie Rubiner, Diann Rust-Tierney, Christopher Schroeder, Victor Schwartz, Reva Siegel, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Paul Smith, Gene Sperling, Bryan Stevenson, Nadine Strossen, Daniel Tarullo, James Tierney, Tony Varona, Rob Weiner, Roger Wilkins and Evan Wolfson. The National Convention will include panel discussions, speeches and other activities addressing a wide range of issues from civil rights to environmental law. The convention also will give ACS members, including students, academics, lawyers and judges, the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and discuss strategies for achieving common goals. More information regarding the National Convention, including a complete list of panels and dozens more scheduled speakers, will soon be available. Click here for the most up-to-date information. ACS Featured in The Nation The June 16th edition of The Nation features a profile of ACS by Alexander Wohl, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Justice, Law, and Society at American University. Wohl's piece describes the history of ACS and details the excitement it has generated among progressive lawyers and students nationwide. The article appears on page 6. Click here to read it online. Gun Control Discussion Draws Dozens to DC Lawyer Chapter Lunch On June 4th, the monthly DC Lawyer Chapter lunch attracted an overflow crowd to the China Doll restaurant to hear remarks on gun control by Matthew Nosanchuk of the Violence Policy Center. Braving a hard, driving rain, over 65 Lawyer Chapter members, new summer associates, and members of the gun control community packed the room, requiring the China Doll staff to roll out additional tables to accommodate the group. Fresh off the first phase of the NAACP's suit against gun manufacturers - in which he serves as co-counsel - Nosanchuk described a challenging environment for gun control litigation and legislation. With the Republican Congress poised to limit all civil liability for gun makers and many Democrats running scared from the gun issue, the politics and policy of gun control look unfavorable. But Nosunchuk noted that the American public continues to favor reasonable gun control in almost every poll taken on the topic. Nosanchuk pointed out that case law in nearly every federal circuit continues to reject an absolute right to bear arms. How far the Bush Administration can get pushing its NRA-aligned vision of gun rights, he argued, will depend on how hard others push back. Chicago Lawyer Chapter Kickoff Features Paul Begala, Roslyn Lieb, Larry Rogers, and Geoffrey Stone http://www.madisonsociety.org/News.htm Goals Janet Reno addresses members at a Summer 2001 ACS event Formed in Spring 2001, The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy is a national organization of law students, law professors, practicing lawyers and others. We want to help revitalize and transform the legal debate, from law school classrooms to federal courtrooms. We want to counter the dominant vision of American law today, a narrow conservative vision that lacks appropriate regard for the ways in which the law affects people's lives. We seek to restore the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful—and traditionally central—place in American law. The American Constitution Society is a non-partisan, non-profit educational organization. We do not, as an organization, lobby, litigate, or take positions on specific issues, cases, legislation, or nominations. We do encourage our members to express their views and make their voices heard. Speakers at ACS events have included Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Tom Harkin, Edward Kennedy, and Paul Wellstone; Reps. Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, Jesse Jackson, Jr., and Bob Barr; former Governor Michael Dukakis; former Rep. Robert Drinan; former Atty. General Janet Reno; former judge and White House Counsel Abner Mikva; former judge Patricia Wald; federal judges Ann Aiken, William Bryant, Ruben Castillo, Robin J. Cauthron, David Coar, Andre Davis, Michael J. Davis, William Fletcher, Marvin Garbis, John Gleeson, Joan Gottschall, David Hamilton, Michael Daly Hawkins, Ellen Segal Huvelle, Nathaniel Jones, William Wayne Justice, Alex Kozinski, Gerard Lynch, Paul Magnuson, Michael McCuskey, Diana Gribbon Motz, Louis Oberdorfer, Robert Pratt, Jed S. Rakoff, Stephen Reinhardt, James Rosenbaum, Edmund Sargus, Shira Scheindlin, Mary Schroeder Sonia Sotomayor, and David Tatel; Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Jones; Arizona Supreme Court Justice Stanley Feldman; former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Thomas Zlakat; former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder; former Solicitors General Drew Days, Walter Dellinger, and Seth Waxman; former Asst. Atty. General Deval Patrick; former White House counsel Beth Nolan; Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano; Common Cause president and former Mass. Atty. Gen. Scott Harshbarger; Harvard law professors Laurence Tribe and Christopher Edley; Ralph Nader; NAACP LDF president Elaine Jones; Public Citizen attorney Alan Morrison; Trial Lawyers for Public Justice exec. director Arthur Bryant; ACLU exec. director Anthony Romero; ACLU president Nadine Strossen; Alliance For Justice president Nan Aron; People for the American Way president Ralph Neas; and LAMBDA Legal Defense Fund Director Ruth Harlow. American Constitution Society Organization Campus Chapters Georgetown ACS President David Fauvre speaks to the crowd about the goals and the progress of the ACS before Senator Clinton takes the stage at a Georgetown chapter ACS event on March 12, 2002. Campus chapters are at the heart of the American Constitution Society. The American Constitution Society began with a chapter organized by law students at Georgetown University. Now we have more than 50 chapters on campuses across the country, and we are working with students and faculty to launch additional chapters. We hope that, through our campus chapters, law students will gain a greater understanding of the legitimacy of a vision of the law that gives human values a central place. As new students begin the process of learning to “think like lawyers,” we believe the activities of these chapters – speeches, debates, symposia, student meetings, reasearch and writing projects – will demonstrate to them that rigorous legal thinking does not require the abandonment of such values. We expect that our student chapters will create a community for like-minded students, and introduce them to faculty, practitioners, former and current government officials, and public interest advocates who share their values. Our chapters have become central meeting places for the exchange of opportunities for bringing positive change to the law. Our national organization assists campus chapters with administrative issues, with obtaining speakers, and with defraying the costs of some chapter programs. American Constitution Society for Law and Policy - info@acslaw.org 50 F Street NW Suite 5200 Washington, DC 20001 (202) 393-6181
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