The American Constitution Society Student Chapter of the UNLV Boyd School of Law was formed in the Fall of 2002. We are a group of students who believe deeply in the importance of law as the mechanism that governs the relationships between and among the individuals and institutions that form our society. We recognize the direct relationship between legal theory and the broader political debate about the kind of society in which we live.

We seek to restore the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful, and traditionally central, place in American law. We want to strengthen the intellectual underpinnings of, and the public case for, a vision of the law in which these values are paramount on such issues as: privacy; freedom of speech; federalism; anti-discrimination and affirmative action; gay rights; a woman’s right to choose; labor and consumer rights; protection of health, safety and the environment; the death penalty; and the criminal justice system.

We recognize the profound role that legal theory plays in shaping broader political debate and, ultimately, the daily lives of our citizens. The American Constitution Society aims to strengthen in American law a steadfast commitment to upholding the freedoms and the dignity of our people - a commitment embodied by our Constitution and by the jurisprudence of such justices as John Marshall, Louis Brandeis, William Brennan, Potter Stewart, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun.

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