The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) has elected Elise Boddie, Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark and a nationally-recognized expert in civil rights, to its Board of Directors.
In announcing the newest Board members, Caroline Fredrickson, president of the national organization, said: “This new class is another top-notch addition to the ACS Board of Directors and we are honored to add their expertise and commitment to the organization’s leadership. Their experience and determination to advance the progressive values and principles of the Constitution will move our network forward, making the law a force for civil rights and justice.”
Professor Boddie, who teaches Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, and State and Local Government, joined the Rutgers faculty in 2013. She previously served as the director of litigation and director of education for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF). Professor Boddie began her career at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where she was the first recipient of the Fried, Frank/LDF fellowship. In 2012, she was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize by the Law and Society Association for exceptional scholarship in the field of race, racism, and the law.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Boddie has published in the UCLA Law Review, Iowa Law Review online, SCOTUSblog, Slate, Huffington Post, the New York Times Sunday Dialogue, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her articles “The Sins of Innocence in Standing Doctrine” and “Critical Mass and the Paradox of Colorblind Constitutionalism” are forthcoming in March 2015 in the Vanderbilt Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, respectively.
The other new ACS Board members are: Debo P. Adegbile, litigation partner at WilmerHale and former acting president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF); Mark Califano, senior vice-president and managing counsel, litigation, at American Express; Erwin Chemerinsky, founding Dean, distinguished professor of law, and Raymond Pryke professor of First Amendment Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law; and Adam Winkler, professor of constitutional law at UCLA School of Law.
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations, is a rapidly growing network of lawyers, law students, scholars, judges, policymakers and other concerned individuals dedicated to making the law a force to improve lives of all people.
