Please join the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois for Fighting For A More Perfect Union, their 2022 virtual luncheon, where we will come together as a community to celebrate and support the ongoing work to defend civil rights and civil liberties.
Featuring Keynote Speakers David Cole and Aziz Huq in Conversation
In his role as the ACLU’s national legal director, David Cole directs a program that includes approximately 1,000 state and federal lawsuits on a broad range of civil liberties issues. He manages 140 ACLU staff attorneys in New York, Washington, San Francisco, and North Carolina, oversees the organization’s U.S. Supreme Court docket, and provides leadership to approximately 300 staff attorneys who work in ACLU affiliate offices across the country.
Aziz Z. Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and a scholar of US and comparative constitutional law. He works on topics ranging from democratic backsliding to regulating AI. His award-winning scholarly work is published in several books and in leading law review, social science, and political science journals. He has also written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and many other non-specialist publications. He has an active pro bono practice, and is on the board of the ACLU of Illinois, American Constitution Society, and the New Press.