ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society

Stories:

• Attorney Devon Chaffee writes about "The Troubling Record of Military Commissions"
• A preview of Federal Express v. Holowecki, an employment discrimination case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, by Helen Norton, associate professor of law at the University of Colorado School of Law
• The second and third articles in a series on "constitutional vision," by Geoffrey R. Stone, professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School
• Video from a conference on "International Law and the Constitution: Terms of Engagement," featuring Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh and University of Missouri-Columbia professor and author Carol Anderson
• Librarians say domestic surveillance legislation "could allow federal intelligence-gathering on library patrons without sufficient court oversight,” according to the Washington Post
• New sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenders

• Announcement of the fourth annual National Student Writing Competition
• A list of selected Congressional hearings for the week
• Creation of GovernmentDocs.org, a repository of government documents acquired through FOIA and other public disclosure laws
• Review of "All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time," a newly released book edited by Alan Jenkins and Brian Smedley