Judge Tatel has served on the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals since 1994. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Judge Tatel taught at the University of Michigan Law School before joining the law firm Sidley Austin in Chicago.
This panel, recorded on May 10th, 2011, and sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the International Human Rights Law Society featured three prominent trial lawyers from Illinois, Florida, and New York involved in the defense of Guantanamo detainees and in numerous other complex criminal cases.
From the National Archives, to More Military Commissions, Indefinite Executive Detention, and Wikileaks: The Ongoing Debate as Seen Through the Eyes of Trial Lawyers.
Is academic freedom protected by the First Amendment? Should it be? What are the cases telling us, and why do they suggest that any smart (public-sector) faculty member should refuse to serve on faculty committees and take any criticism of their university straight to the press?
Professor Alison LaCroix and Professor Eric Slauter will discuss originalism as a methodology of constitutional interpretation and offer some historical critiques of it.
Shahid Buttar will come to the law school on Monday, April 4, for a lunch time discussion on the role of the law in social change. Mr. Buttar, who graduated from Stanford Law School in 2003, is a civil rights lawyer and grassroots community organizer.
Fresh from his oral argument before the Supreme Court in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association (a First Amendment challenge to California's ban on the sale of "violent" video games to minors and the topic for the moot court competition in the fall), Mr. Smith will survey cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act; Proposition 8; Don't Ask, Don't Tell; and more.
As part of ACS' Constitution in 2020 series, Professor Strauss will discuss his forthcoming book, "The Living Constitution," and common law constitutional interpretation, more generally.
