Events

Upcoming This Year:

  • Movie Screening (November)
  • “The Blackberry Presidency” with Meredith Fuchs (Spring)
  • D.C. Field Trip (Spring)

Got ideas for an event? Contact us!

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)

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