Constitutional Law

ACS Week in Review: June 27 - July 3, 2008

Stories

•    A reflection on Thurgood Marshall’s legacy on his 100th birthday by Kia Franklin, an attorney and fellow at the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy.

•    An overview of the testimony of ACS Separation of Powers and Federalism Issue Group Co-Chair and Duke Law School Professor Christopher Schroeder last week on "Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules." 

•    A discussion of whether a former Manhattan ADA who deliberately lost a hearing because he believed the convictions were erroneous should be punished, by Anthony Barkow, Executive Director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at NYU School of Law.

•    An appeal to public interests groups to forgo their historical aversion to cost/benefit analysis by Richard L. Revesz, Dean of New York University School of Law, and Michael A. Livermore, the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Regulation at New York University School of Law.

•    An overview of The New York Times op-ed by University of Chicago law professor and ACS Board of Directors member Geoffrey R. Stone, who argued for the creation of a new executive branch position – a civil liberties adviser.

•    An examination of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit’s decision to overturn a preliminary injunction against South Dakota statute requiring pre-abortion “informed consent.”

•    A mention and link to an article for The New Republic by Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a former ACS student leader and Issue Brief author. Stephanopoulos’s article details a strategy for the Supreme Court’s “left-leaning” justices to counter the Court’s conservative majority.

•    An examination of the Supreme Court’s refusal to grant certiorari in Amschwand v. Spherion by Harper Jean Tobin and Simon Lazarus, attorneys with the National Senior Citizens Law Center.

Resources

•    Video from the 2008 ACS Supreme Court Term Review.
•    New video and commentary from the ACS National Convention.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on July 06, 2008 (boomark / email).