An ideological turf war has broken out in many of the nation's law schools, as liberals try to raise an army of law students and lawyers to fight what they call a conservative dominance of American law.
Enter the American Constitution Society (ACS), a fledgling group of lawyers, law students and left-leaning academics who have united to counter the better-known Federalist Society, a two-decades old group that promotes conservative thought and has taken on the role of watchdog of the American Bar Association.