ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society

Welcome to the American Constitution Society's blog. This site is moderated by a team of law students, and will feature breaking legal news, student observations, and expert commentary written by some of the best legal minds in the nation.

The American Constitution Society is one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations. Founded in 2001, ACS is comprised of law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, policymakers, activists and other concerned individuals who are working to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice are in their rightful, central place in American law.

The views expressed on this site are solely those of the author. The American Constitution Society is a non-partisan, non-profit educational organization. We do not, as an organization, lobby, litigate, or take positions on specific issues, cases, legislation, or nominations. We do encourage our members to express their views, and we work to make their voices heard, by disseminating their work to the legal community, policymakers, the media, and the public. Our members also work to connect each other with opportunities for bringing positive change to the law.

ACSBlog has a twofold purpose. The first is to supplement law reviews and other scholarly literature by providing short, easily digestible legal analyses of interest to a broad legal audience. By drawing upon distinguished professors and practitioners as "guest bloggers" we hope to allow the ideas of the best progressive and moderate legal minds in the country to be disseminated throughout the legal profession. Furthermore, as the ACSBlog allows readers to comment on any articles posted, a guest blogger's idea can be expanded upon and perhaps form the basis for further discussion and even action.

An equally important purpose, however, is to provide a forum in which non-lawyers may read easily digestible legal commentary and thus become more familiar with the way law shapes our society. By providing commentary in a short, pithy format, ACSBlog hopes to be a resource not simply for lawyers, but for educated laypeople struggling to understand the law.

Thank you for visiting our site. I hope you will find it useful in countering the narrow conservative vision of the law which dominates our society today.

Sincerely,

Ian Millhiser
Editor-in-Chief