BLS Democrats

04/11/2019

Join us for a fun movie night and general elections event! Let’s end the semester in the best way. Shake Shack and Netflix 🍔🎟

02/04/2019

Come on out and join the BLS Democrats for our first GBM of the Spring Semester !

11/26/2018

Come on out to the BLS Democrats last General Body Meeting for the semester. FOOD WILL BE SERVED 👏🏻

11/05/2018

Tomorrow!! Come on out and support.

11/01/2018

Come on out and enjoy the exciting election season with the BLS Democrats!

10/17/2018

Professor Spotlight- Join us for the Kavanaugh and Gorsuch: What the New Supreme Court Means for the Country event this Thursday in Subotnick 11th. Professor Josh Blackman is Professor of Law at the South Texas College of Law Houston who specializes in constitutional law, the United States Supreme Court, and the intersection of law and technology. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare.

Professor Blackman was selected by Forbes Magazine for the “30 Under 30” in Law and Policy. He has testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutionality of executive action on immigration. He is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute as well as the founder and President of the Harlan Institute, the founder of FantasySCOTUS, the Internet’s Premier Supreme Court Fantasy League, and blogs at JoshBlackman.com. He leads the cutting edge of legal analytics as Director of Judicial Research at LexPredict. Professor Blackman is also the author of over two dozen law review articles, and his commentary has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, L.A. Times, and other national publications.

10/17/2018

Join the BLS Democrats and Federalists Society tomorrow, 10/18 for a panel discussion on what Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsuch's seats on the Supreme Court will mean for the country! A non-pizza dinner will be served.

10/16/2018

Professor Spotlight- Join us for the Kavanaugh and Gorsuch: What the New Supreme Court Means for the Country event this Thursday in Subotnick 11th. Professor Joel Gora has been a professor at Brooklyn Law School since 1978, teaching constitutional law, civil procedure and a number of other related courses. He also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1993-1997 and again from 2002 through 2006. He is the author of a number of books and articles dealing with First Amendment and other constitutional law issues. He is also an expert on campaign finance law matters, working in the field as both an advocate and an academic. Prior to joining the Brooklyn Law School faculty, Professor Gora was a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for two years after he graduated from law school, and then a full-time lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union for almost ten years. During his ACLU career, he worked on dozens of United States Supreme Court cases, including many landmark rulings. Chief among them was the case of Buckley v. Valeo, the Court’s historic 1976 decision on the relationship between campaign finance restrictions and First Amendment rights. He has worked, on behalf of the ACLU, on almost every one of the important campaign finance cases to come before the Court. He also served for more than 25 years on the board of directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and as one of its general counsel.

10/15/2018

Professor Spotlight- Join us for the Kavanaugh and Gorsuch: What the New Supreme Court Means for the Country event this Thursday in Subotnick 11th. Professor Nick Allard served as Dean from July 2012 to June 2018 and as President from July 2014 to June 2018. At the Law School, he teaches courses on Government Advocacy, Privacy Law in a Digital World, and Introduction to Legal Process. He also serves as Senior Counsel in the Public Policy and Regulation practice at Dentons, a global law firm with presence in more than 50 countries.
Before joining the Law School in 2012, Professor Allard served as chair of the Public Policy Department and co-chair of the Government Advocacy Practice Group at Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C. His clients included domestic and international organizations that were startups, Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and public and private universities. Before joining Patton Boggs, he was a partner at Latham & Watkins, where he chaired the firm’s Government Relations Group.

10/15/2018

Professor Spotlight- Join us for the Kavanaugh and Gorsuch: What the New Supreme Court Means for the Country event this Thursday in Subotnick 11th. Professor William Araiza’s teaching and scholarly interests focus on administrative and constitutional law. He is widely published in these areas, having written casebooks on the First Amendment (LexisNexis) and Constitutional Law (LexisNexis). His most recent articles have appeared in the NYU Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, U.C. Davis Law Review and Boston University Law Review. His book, Enforcing the Equal Protection Clause, was published by NYU Press in 2015.

10/09/2018

https://strikeagainstkavanaugh.com/

04/19/2018

Join us for some relaxation before the chaos of finals! General Elections will occur during the event; remember you have to be at the event to run!

Join the Brooklyn Law School Democrats for a movie night to relax before finals! We will be screening Netflix's Saving Capitalism, a documentary in which former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich meets with Americans from all walks of life as he chronicles a seismic shift in the nation's economy. Our general elections will be happening either before or after the documentary. All e-board positions are open, however you must be present to run. Food will be served!