7/28/03—BC Law Professor Kent Greenfield will moderate a discussion on President Bush’s economic and regulatory policies during the national convention of the American Constitution Society (ACS), to be held in Washington, D.C., on August 1-3. Greenfield will lead a discussion among a group of prominent analysts that includes Paul Begala, former Clinton White House official who is currently featured on CNN’s Crossfire; William Kennard, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; Georgetown Law Professor Daniel Tarullo, and Sally Katzen, President Clinton’s chief regulatory analyst. Other speakers at the national convention will include (among others) Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator Hillary Clinton, and former Attorney General Janet Reno (see ACS Website for full list).

Boston College promises to have strong representation at the national convention, the organization’s first. Greenfield will be joined by visiting professor Lawrence Friedman, as well as ACS Chapter President Daniel Roth and immediate past president Alexandra Deal.

Greenfield, a nationally recognized theorist on corporate law and administrative law, is the faculty advisor of ACS’s BC Law chapter, one of the oldest and most established chapters in the country. Over the last two years, the BC Chapter has hosted numerous speakers at the law school, including Robert Reich, Michael Dukakis, Scott Harshbarger, Barney Frank, Robert Drinan, and Abner Mikva.

According to the ACS Website, the convention will include panel discussions, speeches, and other activities addressing a wide range of issues from civil rights to environmental law. The convention also will give ACS members, including students, academics, lawyers, and judges, the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and discuss strategies for achieving common goals.

The ACS is a national organization of law students, law professors, practicing lawyers, and others that seeks to revitalize and transform the legal debate. In the words of the organization’s mission, ACS works to “restore the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful—and traditionally central—place in American law.”

The convention begins Friday, August 1, and continues until Sunday, August 3. Greenfield’s panel will be held Saturday morning, at 9 a.m. The public is invited. All events will occur at the Capital Hilton.