The Supreme Court opens its new term by hearing rearguments in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, a dispute involving torture, corporate malfeasance, and the ability of American courts to address international law violations far beyond U.S. borders.  Stanford Law's Jenny Martinez discusses what's at stake and provides history into the Alien Tort Statute, a law dating back to the time of the country's founding.

ACS Law Talk: Kiobel Reargued and the Future of the Alien Tort Statute

Boston College's Kent Greenfield plays constitutional curmudgeon and explains why Constitution Day, or at least conditioning federal funds on the celebration of it, is unconstitutional.

ACS Law Talk: An Unconstitutional Constitution Day

Affirmative action continues to be a violatile issue in American politics. This week the Supreme Court will face the issue head-on in Fisher v. University of Texas, a dispute over UT's consideration of race in undergraduate admissions. Ted Shaw, who spent twenty years with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, discusses the history of affirmative action, and MALDEF's Thomas Saenz explains why continuing discrimination in Texas is particularly important to understanding this case.

ACS Law Talk: Fisher and the Future of Affirmative Action

With the president election just one week away, Justin Levitt explains what is wrong with our election system and reveals that new voting regulations, including voter IDs, voter purges, and registration limitations, do nothing to improve the integrity of our election.