American Constitution Society
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is a
progressive legal organization that promotes the U.S. Constitutional values of
"individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, access to justice,
democracy and the rule of law." [2]
According to the ACS website:
ACS is centered around the idea
that the law should be a force to improve the lives of all people. It works for
positive change by shaping debate on vitally important legal and constitutional
issues through development and promotion of high-impact ideas to opinion
leaders and the media; by building networks of lawyers, law students, judges
and policymakers dedicated to those ideas; and by countering the activist
conservative legal movement that has sought to erode our enduring
constitutional values. By bringing together powerful, relevant ideas and
passionate, talented people, ACS makes a difference in the constitutional,
legal and public policy debates that shape our democracy.[3]
ACS was created as a counterweight
to, and is modeled after, the Federalist Society, and is often described as its
progressive counterpart.[4][5][6][7][8]
ACS has 190 student chapters and
39 lawyer chapters around the country. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
The organization promotes and facilitates discussion and debate of progressive
public policy ideas and issues, providing forums for legal scholars, lawmakers,
judges, lawyers, public policy advocates, law students and members of the media.
American Constitution Society
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society.
Note: George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations.
Mariano-Florentino
Cuellar is a director at the American
Constitution Society, and was a special assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Dawn E. Johnsen
is a director at the American
Constitution Society, and was a director nominee, Office of Legal Counsel for
the Barack Obama administration.
Christine A.
Varney is a director at the American
Constitution Society, and was an assistant attorney general for the Barack Obama administration.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, and is the attorney general for the Barack Obama administration.
Elizabeth M.
Brown was an executive director at the American
Constitution Society, and is the White House staff secretary for the Barack Obama administration.
Laurence
Tribe was a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and his research assistant was Barack Obama.
Barack
Obama was Laurence Tribe’s research
assistant, and an intern at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory
Please note: This link for the
members of the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Faith Elizabeth
Gay was an attorney at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is a director at the American
Constitution Society.
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