2015 ACS National Convention CLE
Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Instructions
CLE credit is approved for CA, GA, ME, MN, OH, PA, TX, and WA. CLE credit is available per jurisdictional reciprocity with CA for AK, AZ, AR, CO, FL, HI, IL, MT, NJ, ND, NY, and WI. In addition, credit is pending for NC and VA. For any questions regarding CLE credit, please e-mail Matt Scoble at mscoble@acslaw.org.
In order to receive CLE credit, please:
- Sign in on your state's Attendance Record and pick up your state's CLE materials at the table outside of each room prior to the beginning of the session. If you do not sign in, you cannot receive credit for the session.
- If you need to leave the session early, please sign out so that you may receive partial credit for the session.
- If you are provided with an evaluation form, please fill it out and submit it to the CLE table after each session has concluded.
- Finally, if your state is listed as having reciprocity with California for CLE, please follow your state’s rules for obtaining credit.
Friday, June 12
Beyond Ferguson: A Nation’s Struggle with Race and Criminal Justice - 9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. (1.5 Credits)
Beyond Ferguson: A Nation’s Struggle with Race and Criminal Justice - 9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. (1.5 Credits)
- American Constitution Society, Brown v. Board and Beyond: Racial Equality in America 50 Years After the Civil Rights Act.
- American Constitution Society, Programmatic Suggestions Regarding Criminal Justice and Communities of Color: An Update to the 2014 Program Guide.
- President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, Interim Report March 2015.
- Richard Rothstein, The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles.
- United States Supreme Court Decision, Tennessee v. Garner.
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Decision, Floyd v. City of New York.
After Marriage - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Courtney Megan Cahill, Regulating at the Margins: Non-Traditional Kinship and the Legal Regulation of Intimate and Family Life.
- David Crary, Are Gay Rights Advocates Facing an Uphill Battle for Rights beyond Same-Sex Marriage?
- Ellen Shapiro, 'Til Death Do Us Part: The Difficulties of Obtaining a Same Sex Divorce.
- Gary A. Debele, Family Law Issues for Same Sex Couples in the Aftermath of Minnesota’s Same Sex Marriage Law: A Family Law Attorney’s Perspective.
- Nancy D. Polikoff, The New “Illegitimacy”: Winning Backward in the Protection of the Children of Lesbian Couples.
- William N. Eskridge Jr., Original Meaning and Marriage Equality.
Going it Alone: Presidential Power and the DAPA Debate - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- David B. Rivkin, Written Statement for Hearing on Reining in Amnesty Texas v. United States and Its Implications before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts Committee on the Judiciary.
- Peter Shane, Judge Hanen's Misconceptions and the Legality of Deferred Action.
- Shoba Wadhia, Response: In Defense of DACA, Deferred Action, and the DREAM Act.
- USCIS Executive Actions on Immigration.
Skewed Justice: How Money in Judicial Elections Undermines Criminal Justice -11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (1.5 Ethics Credits)
- Joanna Shepard and Michael S. Kang, Skewed Justice: Citizens United, Television Advertising and State Supreme Court Justices’ Decisions.
- Norman L. Reimer, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Written Statement, “Examining the State of Judicial Recusals after Caperton v. A.T. Massey.”
- Sue Bell Cobb, I was Alabama’s Top Judge. I’m Ashamed by What I Had to Do to Get There: How Money is Ruining America’s Courts.
Still Unequal After All These Years: Continuing Barriers to Workplace Gender Equality - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Caroline Fredrickson, Legions of Women Workers in U.S. Still Lack Minimum Wage and Labor Protections.
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
- Paycheck Fairness Act.
- Samuel R. Bagenstos, Formalism and Employer Liability Under Title VII.
- United States Supreme Court Decision, Young v. UPS.
Changing the Rules on Access to Justice – 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Agenda Book (April 2015).
- A. Benjamin Spencer, Rationalizing Cost Allocation of Civil Discovery.
Drawing Lines: The Limits to a State’s Redistricting Powers - 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Brief for Appellant in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission.
- Franita Tolson, Partisan Gerrymandering as a Safeguard of Freedom.
- Jamie Raskin and Rob Richie, Fair Representation For All: Instead of Gerrymandering Single Congressional Districts, Create Super-Districts that Allow Every Voter’s Voice to be Heard.
- The Reform Institute, Beyond Party Lines: Principals for Redistricting Reform.
- United States Supreme Court Decision, Alabama Democratic Conference et al. v. Alabama et al.
The Digital Age on the Global Stage: Can the Law Keep Up? - 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Anupam Chander and Uyen P. Le, Breaking the Web: Data Localization vs. the Global Internet.
- Jeffrey Rosen, The Right To Be Forgotten.
- Jennifer Daskal, The Un-Territoriality of Data.
- Orin S. Kerr, The Fourth Amendment and the Global Internet.
- Orin S. Kerr, The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Model Law On Mutual Assistance In Criminal Matters (2007).
Undue Burdens - 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Neil S. Siegel and Reva B. Siegel, Equality Arguments for Abortion Rights.
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Decision, Jackson Women’s Health Organization v. Currier.
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Decision, Whole Woman’s Health v. Lakey.
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Decision, Stuart v. Camnitz.
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Decision, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc. et al. v. J.B. Van Hollen.
Is the Supreme Court a Failure (and if so, What Can Be Done About It)? - 4:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Craig S. Lerner and Nelson Lund, Judicial Duty and the Supreme Court’s Cult of Celebrity.
- Elizabeth B. Wydra, Supreme Court’s Legitimacy at Stake on Affordable Care Act.
- Erwin Chemerinsky, The Supreme Court's Supremely Flawed Record.
- Justin Driver, The Constitutional Conservatism of the Warren Court.
- Larry Kramer, The Problem with the Courts.
- Linda Greenhouse, Law in the Raw.
Saturday, June 13
The Courts, the Constitution and the Disappearing American Dream - 9:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (1.5 Credits)
The Courts, the Constitution and the Disappearing American Dream - 9:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Catherine Fisk and Xenia Tashlitsky, Imagine a World Where Employers Are Required to Bargain with Minority Unions.
- Ganesh Sitaraman, America’s Post-Crash Constitution.
- Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, Panel II: Is the Constitution Responsible for Electoral Dysfunction?
- Sophia Z. Lee, Hotspots in a Cold War: The NAACP’s Postwar Workplace Constitutionalism, 1948–1964.
- Timothy K Kuhner, American Plutocracy.
Disparate Impact in the Crosshairs - 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Amicus Brief for the Black Law Students Association in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs et al. v. The Inclusive Communities Project.
- Janai S. Nelson, The Causal Context of Disparate Vote Denial.
- Robert Belton, Title VII At Forty: A Brief Look at the Birth, Death, and Resurrection of the Disparate Impact Theory of Discrimination.
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Decision, Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Department Housing.
- William Consovoy, Congress Must Decide for Itself Whether It Wants to Push the Constitutional Envelope.
Sex, Lies and Justice: Campus Sexual Assault, Title IX and Due Process - 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Alexandra Brodsky, Fair Process, Not Criminal, Process is the Right Way to Address Campus Sexual Assault.
- Nancy Gertner, Sex, Lies and Justice: Can We Reconcile the Belated Attention to Rape on Campus with Due Process?
- Title IX Education Amendments of 1972.
The Dangers of Injecting Secrecy into the Death Penalty - 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Amicus Brief of Rutherford Institute in Glossip et al. v. Gross et al.
- Brief for Petitioners in Glossip et al. v. Gross et al.
- Cary Aspinwall and Ziva Branstetter, Records Reveal Lack of Protocol in Clayton Lockett’s Oklahoma Execution.
- Complaint for Plaintiffs in Guardian News et al. v. Charles L. Ryan, Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, and Thomas C. Horne, Arizona Attorney General.
- The Constitution Project, Irreversible Error: Recommended Reforms for Preventing and Correcting Errors in the Administration of Capital Punishment.
- Emergency Motion of Intervenors in Frank Robert Chester et al. v. John E. Wetzel et al.
- Mark L. Earley, Sr., A Pink Cadillac, an IQ of 63, and a Fourteen-Year-Old From South Carolina: Why I Can No Longer Support The Death Penalty.
- Petition in Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Foundation and Christopher McDaniel v. Missouri Department of Corrections.
- Petition in Ziva Branstetter and BH Media Group Inc. v. Mary Fallin, in her official capacity as Governor of the State of Oklahoma; Michael C. Thompson, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.
- SB 1393 Pharmacists; Compounding of Drugs for Use in Execution; Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute.
- SB 1393 Pharmacists; Compounding of Drugs for Use in Execution; Bill Tracking.
When Rights Collide?: Religious Liberty, Equality and the Fall Out from Hobby Lobby - 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. (1.5 Credits)
- Amicus Brief of Christian Legal Society et al. in Kathleen Sebelius et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., et al.
- Douglas NeJaime and Reva Siegel, Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics.
- Kent Greenfield, Unfair Advantage Would Spur Abuse of Exempt Status: Do Corporations Have Religious Liberty?
- National Women’s Law Center Fact Sheet.
- United States Supreme Court Decision, Sylvia Burwell et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.et al.