Join ACS for a panel on the Future of Religious Freedom in SLB 121 from 12:10-1:15pm. Bradley will be appearing in person, Chris will be appearing over Zoom.
Speakers:
Bradley Girard, Litigation Counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Bradley returned to AU after serving as the Steven Gey Constitutional Litigation Fellow from 2015-17. Bradley served as counsel in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the football coach case decided by SCOTUS in the Summer 2022 term. He graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law in 2014. After law school he clerked for the Honorable Neal E. Kravitz on the D.C. Superior Court and on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey. Immediately before returning to AU, Bradley was the clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown Law’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, where he taught students public-interest impact litigation in the federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. He also earned an LLM in advocacy.
Christopher C. Taub, Chief Deputy Attorney General for the State of Maine.
Chris joined the AG’s Civil Litigation Division in 1999 and later served as the Chief of that Division until being appointed to Chief Deputy in January 2020. He was counsel in Carson v. Makin, decided by SCOTUS in the Summer 2022 term, and provided oral arguments in the case. Chris has litigated numerous cases in state and federal court in matters involving federal civil rights, employment discrimination, environmental law, the First Amendment, the Commerce Clause, and federal preemption. He has argued over 20 appeals in the First Circuit and the Maine Supreme Court. Chris received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Boston University.
Sponsoring Organization(s)
American Constitution Society