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American Constitution Society

The American Constitution Society (ACS) believes that law should be a force to improve the lives of all people.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best ACS Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to ACS Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite ACS Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

ACS Podcast - Pathways to Clerkships
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11/20/18 • 59 min

A distinguished panel of judges discuss the benefits of a judicial clerkship, what to expect from clerking, their advice on the application process, and what they look for in clerkship candidates. Speakers will include Judge Beverly Martin (11th Cir.), Judge George Hazel (D. Md.), and Judge Kim Jolson (M.J., S.D. Ohio) and the discussion will be moderated by ACS’s Vice President of Strategic Engagement Jill Dash.
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Hours before Justice Kennedy announced his retirement, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Janus v. AFSCME, overturning a 40-year-old precedent that had served as the bedrock of American labor law and demonstrating what Justice Kagan described in her dissent as “little regard for the usual principles of stare decisis.” What does this disregard for stare decisis mean as we evaluate President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee? Join ACS for a briefing that will provide an overview of the Janus decision, forecast what’s next for American workers, and place the decision in the larger context of what the decision may mean for other long-established precedents that Americans have come to rely upon, including Roe v. Wade.
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ACS Podcast - Reining in Forced Arbitration
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05/16/18 • 57 min

On Thursday August 11, 2016, ACS hosted a conference call discussing the ways in which forced arbitration clauses prevent consumers from vindicating their rights and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's comment period, which will influence its final regulations. Karla Gilbride, Cartwright-Baron Staff Attorney, Public Justice and Jean Sternlight, Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law, join the call to help further explore the regulation's consequences.
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ACS Podcast - Is America Becoming a Plutocracy?
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05/07/18 • 53 min

On Dec. 19 ACS hosted a phone call lead by two leaders in constitutional scholarship, William E. Forbath, associate dean for research and Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and Richard W. Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota Law School; associate counsel to President George W. Bush, to discuss the implications of electing an international business tycoon as president of the United States, a President-elect who is assembling what could be the richest administration in history. Professors Forbath and Painter considered the following questions: What conflicts of interest will President-elect Trump likely have when he is sworn into office next month? Will he be in violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause or other laws and ethical rules? And what do his recent cabinet picks means for our democracy? Are we headed for plutocracy?
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On Jan. 9 ACS hosted a phone call lead by one of the country's leaders in constitutional scholarship, Stephen Vladeck, professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, to discuss two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this Term, Ziglar v. Abbasi (Jan. 18) and Hernandez v. Mesa (Feb. 21), where the key question at stake is: under what circumstances, if any, can an individual seek damages against federal officers who violate their constitutional rights? Professor Vladeck, who is co-counsel in Hernandez v. Mesa, will discuss “Bivens remedies,” the only mechanism available to plaintiffs who have had their constitutional rights violated and detail the ACS Issue Brief titled, “The Bivens Term: Why the Supreme Court should reinvigorate damages suits against federal officers,” which he authored.
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ACS Podcast - Foreign Influence and the Presidency
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05/04/18 • 53 min

On Tuesday, Jan. 24, ACS hosted a briefing call featuring Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School; Deepak Gupta, appellate advocate and principal at Gupta Wessler PLLC and Joshua Matz associate at Robbins Russell LLP. These three leading lawyers discussed the lawsuit alleging that Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution by allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments. The participants addressed the following questions: What are "emoluments" and is Trump receiving them? Is this a political question? Are there jurisdictional questions? Who has standing to bring cases in regards to a violation of the Emoluments Clause? What is the remedy? Featured Speakers: Caroline Fredrickson, ACS President, Moderator Deepak Gupta, Partner, Gupta Wessler PLLC Joshua Matz, Associate, Robbins Russell LLP Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School
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ACS Podcast - What's Next? The Revised Travel Ban
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05/04/18 • 56 min

On March 8, ACS hosted a briefing call on the Trump Administration's second travel ban that purports to cure the defects of the first. After the first travel ban was rebuffed by federal courts in its attempt to restrict refugee admissions and travel from designated Muslim-majority nations, the ACS briefing call looked to answer the following questions. How do the two executive orders differ? Are those differences constitutionally and legally significant? And what have we learned in recent weeks about the implementation challenges raised by such orders? Featured Speakers: Adam Winkler, Professor of Law, UCLA Law School; ACS Board of Directors, Moderator Anil Kalhan, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Dr. Stephen Legomsky, John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus, Washington University Law School;Former Chief Counsel, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (2011-2013)
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ACS Podcast - Texas vs. the DREAMers, AGAIN
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05/03/18 • 38 min

On August 24, 2017, ACS hosted a call on the most recent challenge to DACA. In June 2012, President Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (“DACA”), which allowed qualifying young people who were brought to the United States as children to request that any removal action against them be deferred in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Subsequent programs (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (“DAPA”) and the 2014 “expanded DACA”) were preliminarily enjoined by a Texas federal judge, whose decision was affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and ultimately by an evenly divided U.S. Supreme Court. Now the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, and 10 other state Attorneys General have written to Attorney General Sessions indicating their intent to challenge the 2012 DACA in court unless the administration agrees to rescind the program by September 5, 2017. Featuring: Caroline Fredrickson, ACS President, Moderator Lorella Praeli, ACLU Director of Immigration Policy and Campaigns Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar, Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Penn State Law
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ACS Podcast - Surviving Law School
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05/03/18 • 57 min

ACS Conference Call featuring Tracey E. George, Vanderbilt Law professor and co-author of "What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law" in conversation with Vaishali Goyal ’18, Boston College Law School, ACS Next Generation Leader.
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ACS Podcast - What's Next? After The Mueller Report
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04/29/19 • 56 min

On April 29, ACS hosted a discussion of the recently released Mueller Report. As we continue to digest Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, serious legal questions remain regarding Congress’s power to subpoena a sitting president, the alleged legal impediments that prevented Mueller from indicting Trump associates for campaign finance violations, and what the law of obstruction actually provides. These questions take on more importance as we ask, what comes next? As talk of impeachment surfaces in both Democratic and Republican circles, what do we know about the meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors”? Featuring: Bob Bauer, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, New York University Law School; White House Counsel to President Barack Obama Neil Kinkopf, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law; Counselor to then-Senator Joseph Biden for the Impeachment Trial of President Clinton Barbara McQuade, Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School; Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Caroline Fredrickson, President, American Constitution Society
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How many episodes does ACS Podcast have?

ACS Podcast currently has 73 episodes available.

What topics does ACS Podcast cover?

The podcast is about News and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on ACS Podcast?

The episode title 'The Constitution and the 2020 Election (Constitution Day Briefing Call)' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on ACS Podcast?

The average episode length on ACS Podcast is 54 minutes.

How often are episodes of ACS Podcast released?

Episodes of ACS Podcast are typically released every 10 days, 22 hours.

When was the first episode of ACS Podcast?

The first episode of ACS Podcast was released on Aug 2, 2017.

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