2015 American Constitutional Society National Convention—Washington, D.C.

American Constitutional Society (ACS)

The American Constitutional Society will host the 2015 ACS National Convention on June 11-13, 2015. The discounted early registration deadline is May 15, 2015.

Featured speakers include:

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg – U.S. Supreme Court Justice
  • Eric Holder – U.S. Attorney General
  • Wendy Davis – Former Texas State Senator
  • Goodwin Liu – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

Panels Include:

Plenaries

  • Beyond Ferguson: A Nation’s Struggle with Race and Criminal Justice
  • Is the Supreme Court a Failure (and if so, What Can Be Done About It)?
  • The Courts, the Constitution and the Disappearing American Dream

Breakouts

  • Still Unequal After All These Years: Continuing Barriers to Workplace Gender Equality
  • After Marriage
  • Going it Alone: Presidential Power and the DAPA Debate
  • Skewed Justice: How Money in Judicial Elections Undermines Criminal Justice
  • The Digital Age on the Global Stage: Can the Law Keep Up?
  • Changing the Rules on Access to Justice
  • Drawing Lines: The Limits to a State’s Redistricting Powers
  • Undue Burdens
  • Sex, Lies and Justice: Campus Sexual Assault, Title IX and Due Process
  • The Dangers of Injecting Secrecy into the Death Penalty
  • Disparate Impact in the Crosshairs
  • When Rights Collide?: Religious Liberty, Equality and the Fall Out from Hobby Lobby

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