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New Data Unveiled: How the Federal Courts Are Treating Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs

ACS hosted a panel discussion on a new article published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review that concluded that workers bringing employment discrimination lawsuits increasingly fare poorly in the federal courts . Studying data from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, authors Stewart...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
"The State-by-State Assault on Equal Opportunity"

In a discussion with relevance to state ballot measures across the nation, ACS is releasing an important new Issue Brief focusing on initiatives that would amend state constitutions to ban all affirmative action measures. In her article “ The State-by-State Assault on Equal Opportunity ,”...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-18-2008
ACS ResearchLink: Connecting Law Students and Lawyers Committed to Justice

ACS is pleased to invite lawyers and law students to participate in the second year of ACS ResearchLink , an innovative online resource that collects legal research topics submitted by public interest practitioners for law students writing faculty-supervised law review/journal notes, seminar papers or...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008
Issue Brief: NLRB Ignored Precedent in Graduate Research Assistant Decision

ACS released a new issue brief that critiques the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision holding that graduate student teaching and research assistants are not employees and thus are not protected under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Written by Penn State Dickinson School of Law Professor...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-20-2008
Issue Brief: The Pitfalls of Voter Identification Laws in a Post-Crawford World

Today, ACS released an issue brief by Carrie Apfel of Jenner & Block entitled “ The Pitfalls of Voter Identification Laws in a Post- Crawford World .” She writes that even in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s upholding of Indiana’s restrictive voter photo identification...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2008
ACS Issue Brief: On Transparency and Secrecy

In his new ACS Issue Brief , University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey R. Stone called for a rebalancing of governmental secrecy and accountability. He wrote that “the Bush Administration has tilted too far in the direction of secrecy at the expense of accountability and informed self-governance...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-05-2008
Khalid Sheik Mohammed To Be Arraigned Tomorrow Before Military Commission Tribunal

The Washington Post reported that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged 9/11 co-conspirators will be arraigned before Military Commission tribunals tomorrow. The article explains that the “conspiracy case could end up focusing as much on evidence of the suspects' wrongdoing as on the legitimacy...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-04-2008
Latest Issue of ACS's Law Journal Now Available

The latest edition of the Harvard Law & Policy Review , the official journal of the American Constitution Society, is now available . This issue includes discussions on progressive visions of the corporation, ensuring access to quality education, the reshaping of the global warming debate, liberty...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-27-2008
Paper: "The Establishment Clause and Religious Expression in Governmental Settings"

Papers written for " The Religion Clauses in the 21st Century " Symposium are now available. In this blogpost, Daniel Conkle, Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington, introduces his paper, " The Establishment Clause and Religious Expression in Governmental Settings...

Posted to American Constitution Society (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-26-2008

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