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This is the blog for the University of Chicago Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society.
Mission statement for the ACS Editorial Project
The ACS Editorials Project aims to organize students to communicate progressive ideals by writing editorials in their local newspapers. In doing so, the Project intends to expand the presence of the progressive voice in print media, to introduce new ideas into local communities, and to reach the audience that reads newspapers instead of blogs. In addition, the Editorials Project hopes to engage the student writers in public policy, allow them to articulate their own views, and become more involved in their communities.
Mission Statement of ACS
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations. Founded in 2001, ACS is a rapidly growing network of lawyers, law students, scholars, judges, policymakers and other concerned individuals. Our mission is to ensure that fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice enjoy their rightful, central place in American law.
ACS aims to revitalize and transform the legal and policy debates occurring in law school classrooms, federal and state courtrooms, legislative hearing rooms and the media. Through student and lawyer chapters all across the country, and programs and projects at both the national and local level, ACS:
- promotes a progressive vision of the Constitution, law and public policy;
- educates lawyers, law students, decision-makers and the public about the historic basis and vitality of such a vision and its importance for the lives of real people;
- strengthens the intellectual underpinnings for progressive law and policy in the
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