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2008 - 2009
- ACS Dinner, Hon. William A. Fletcher, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Jan. 21, 2009)
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Judge Fletcher is a highly respected jurist on the Ninth Circuit and visited NU to deliver the annual Trienens lecture. ACS members had the opportunity to join him for dinner and good conversation.
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- De-Briefing the 2008 Election, Dawn Clark Netsch, Professor, NU School of Law; Former Illinois State Senator
2007 - 2008
- Ending the U.S. Health Care Crisis: Reforming Health Care in 2008, Hon. John Conyers, Congressman, Michigan 14th Dist.; Chair, House Committee on the Judiciary
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Congressman Conyers is the Chair of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, and the author and lead sponsor of HR 676, a bill which would create a single-payer system of national health insurance. Special guests in attendance included the Honorable Judge Diane P. Wood of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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- Pro-worker Trends in Labor and Employment Law, Catherine Ruckelshaus, Litigation Director, the National Employment Law Project, and David Dean, James & Hoffman, P.C.
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Catherine Ruckelshaus of the National Employment Law Project and David Dean of James & Hoffman, P.C. shared their creative solutions to work with and around existing labor law structures to fight for living wages and safe working conditions for their clients.
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- Progressive Solutions to Corporate Irresponsibility, Lawrence Mitchell, Professor, George washington University Law School
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Professor Mitchell, author of Stacked Deck: A Story of Selfishness in America, discussed his proposals to stem the recent increase in corporate malfeasance and the offset the ill effects of the speculation economy.
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- Single-Payer Universal Healthcare, Dr. Quentin Young, CEO, Physicians for a National Health Program, and Mary Flower, Illinois State Rep., 31st Dist.
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Representative Mary Flowers, Chair of the Committee on Health for the Illinois House of Representatives, and Dr. Quentin Young, former President of the American Public Health Association, hosted a Q & A on the feasibility and appropriateness of a single-payer universal health care system in Illinois.
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- Questioning the Political Question Doctrine, Martin Redish, Professor, NU School of Law
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Leading Constitutional law and Civil Procedure scholar Professor Redish presented an insightful and entertaining criticism of the Court’s mercurial invocation of the political question doctrine as a means to avoid addressing issues on the merits, thus endangering the judiciary’s role as watchdog over our democracy.
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- Some Things Never Change: Current Reflections on the Administration's Detention Policy, Joe Margulies, Professor, NU School of Law
Professor Margulies is the author of Guantanamo Bay and the Abuse of Presidential Power. Professor Margulies was lead counsel for petitioners in Rasul v. Bush (2004) and Munaf v. Geren (2008), and has been active in Guantanamo Bay defense since the base first opened.
- Roe, Goodridge, and the Politics of Backlash, Scott Lemieux, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York
2006 - 2007
- Bush Administration Detention Policies: Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Joe Margulis, Professor, NU School of Law
- A Free Speech with Jerry Springer, Jerry Springer, Host, The Jerry Springer Show, former Mayor, Cincinatti
- Can Corporate Lawyers Save The World?, Kent Greenfield, Professor, Boston College Law School
- Buck v. Bell and Reproductive Technology, Paul Lombardo, Professor, Georgia State University
- Between The Hague & Jerusalem: Human Rights and 'The Barrier' between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Neta Ziv, Professor, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Guantanamo Bay Teach-in, Joe Margulies, Professor, NU School of Law, William H. Taft, IV, U.S. Dept. of State, Patricia Bronte, Associate, Jenner & Block, Bernadine Dohrn, Professor, NU School of Law, William Hannay, Associate, Schiff Hardin
2005 - 2006
- Torture and Warrantless Surveillance at the Lowest Ebb: When Can the Commander-in-Chief Ignore Statutory Prohibitions?, Marty Lederman, Visiting Professor, NU School of Law
- Executive Power, Mark Tushnet, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
- Executive Signing Statements and Non-enforcement of the Law, Neil Kinkopf and Randy Moss
- On Advancing Positive Rights Under the Constitution, Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr., Congressman, Illinois 2d Dist.
- Radicals in Robes, Cass Sunstein, Professor, University of Chicago Law School
- Insider Perspectives on the Judicial Nominations Process David Strauss, Professor, University of Chicago Law School, and John McGinnis, Professor, NU School of Law
- The Constitution in Foreign Affairs, Colleen Connell, Executive Director, Illinois ACLU and John Yoo, Professor, Boalt
- The Patriot Act: Necessary Protection or Affront to Civil Liberties?, Susan Herman, General Counsel, ACLU and Professor, Brooklyn Law, Eric Posner, Professor, University of Chicago Law School, Adam Schwartz, Illinois ACLU
- How Law Students Shut Down the First Guantanamo Detention Camp, Brandt Goldstein, Author, "Storming the Court"
2004 - 2005
- On the Role of International Law in Constitutional Adjudication, Hon. Peter Messitte, District Judge, District of Maryland)
- Is George Bush a Conservative?, Stephen Presser and Andrew Koppelman, Professors, NU School of Law
- On the Electoral College, Robert Bennett, Professor, NU School of Law
- On Civil Liberties in Wartime, Geoffrey Stone, Professor, University of Chicago Law School
2003 - 2004
- Discussing the Patriot Act, Hon. Abner J. Mikva, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- On Gay Marriage, Evan Wolfson, Executive Director, Freedom to Marry
- On Journalistic Privilege, Jack Doppelt, Professor, Medill School of Journalism
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