"Advance" from American Constitution Society.

The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS; Washington, D.C.), a non-profit organization comprised of lawyers, judges, students and policymakers whose mission is to ensure the fundamental principles of law and equal justice, has begun the publication of "Advance: The Journal of the

ACS said most editions of the journal will carry a selection of Issue Briefs produced in the preceding several months on a wide range of topics of interest to the different ACS Issue Groups (Constitution, Democracy & Voting, Criminal Justice, etc.). Other editions contain a series of papers on a particular topic emanating from a conference or symposium hosted by one of the Issue Groups.

The journal does not endorse any single policy and is designed to encourage debate on issues of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, equality and access to justice. Each Issue Brief is intended to offer analysis of a legal or policy issue, including topical issues and principles of law.

The first two issue of the journal include articles on such topics as: constitutional fidelity, constitutional interpretation as structured choice, self-government and justice, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, ranked-choice voting, the Executive Branch's interpretation of the Constitution in the war on terror, and health care provider refusal to treat.