Upcoming This Year:
- “The Blackberry Presidency” with Meredith Fuchs (Spring)
- D.C. Field Trip (Spring)
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Spring 2010
- Lunch Speaker: John Yoo (Mar. 18, cosponsored with Institute of Bill of Rights Law)
Fall 2009
- General Interest Meeting (Sep. 22)
- Supreme Court Advocacy Panel with Tom Goldstein, Paul Clement, Miguel Estrada & Deanne Maynard (Oct. 3, cosponsored with Moot Court)
- November Election Guide (Nov. 2)
- Gay Marriage and the Constitution: Must Gay Rights Conflict with Religious Liberty with Professor Andrew Koppelman of Northwestern Law School (Nov. 6, cosponsored with the Institute of Bill of Rights Law)
- The First Amendment and the 2008 Presidential Election with Professor William Van Alstyne of William & Mary School of Law (Nov. 10, cosponsored with ACLU and the Election Law Society)
- Movie Screening: Fern Gully (Nov. 19, cosponsored with Environmental Law Society)
Spring 2009
- Documentary screening and discussion with Prof. Tortorice on Corporate Accountability (January)
- Discussion on Employment Discrimination in Popular Culture with Prof. Grover (February)
- Counsel of Record in Ledbetter v. Goodyear to Talk about Case and the Issue of Pay Equity (March 19)
- A Holistic Approach to Reproductive Rights with Jessica Arons (March 20)
- Field Trip to DC (March 27)
- Don’t Judge an E-Book by its Cover: Suing Google with Joanna Zack (April 6)
Fall 2008
- Speaker Tom Goldstein in mid-September 2008.
- Walter Dellinger and Paul Clement in mid-September 2008.
- Voter Protection in the Upcoming Election with BLSA.
- Discussion with Brian Siebel from the Brady Center on post-Heller policies.
- Presentation on the gendered context of the 2008 election by Karen Beckwith.
- Screening of WALL-E and discussion on environmental policy.
Spring 2008
- 3/24/08- Film screening and discussion of “Gideon’s Trumpet” with Professor Paul Marcus.
- 3/18/08- “Expanding Access to Voting” with speaker Myrna Perez.
- 2/26/08- Lunch with Public Interest lawyers.
- 2/22/08- Field Trip to Washington, DC. Visited SCOTUS, Congress, etc.
- 1/31/08- “Drafting the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Future of Disability Law”, speaker Professor Michael Stein.
Fall 2007
- 11/12/07- “Race and the Roberts Court” with speaker John Payton.
- 10/17/07 – Screening of Chasing Freedom starring Juliette Lewis as a lawyer representing a woman who fled the Taliban for America, followed by a post-film discussion on immigration and asylum led by Professor Angela Banks.
- 10/10/07 - “Representing the Unseen: Lawyering on Behalf of Guantanamo Bay detainees”, Jeffrey D. Colman, partner at Jenner & Block, spoke about his experience representing several Guantanamo Bay detainees.
- 9/20/07 – Beer & Billiards
- 9/17/07 – Dr. Jeremy Gunn, “Secularism and Separation: Past Their Prime or Ready for a Comeback?”
- 9/14/07- Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky & Prof. Pamela Karlan, “A Progressive Vision of Constitutional Interpretation”
Spring 2007
- 4/4/07 – Prof. Neil Kinkopf & Prof. Michael Lewis, ACS vs. Fed Soc Debate, “A Pretentious President or a Cavalier Congress?: The Separation of Powers During Wartime”
- 2/27/07 – Prof. Erin Ryan, Screening of “An Inconvenient Truth” held with Environmental Law Society
Fall 2006
- 11/20/06 – Bob Bauer, A Speech Re: Progressive Agenda and Campaign Finance Reform
- 11/13/06 – Ken Feinberg, Administrator of the September 11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, A Speech Re: Mass Tort Responses in America and his Experiences with the Fund
- 10/18/06 – Screening of “Unconstitutional”
- 10/11/06 – Beer and Politics
- 9/15/06 – Paul Smith & Prof. John Yoo, “The Protection of Individual Rights and the Roberts Court: Minority Rights, the War on Terror and the Supreme Court”
- 9/14/06 – Beer @ Green Leafe
- 9/4/06 – Brown Bag Lunch with Prof. Davison Douglas
- 8/28/06 – Chapter Meeting with Prof. Laura Heymann