FedSoc ELECTIONS

If you don't give a damn 'bout our bad reputation

• • Thursday, April 5, 2012
  • 12:00pm until 1:00pm

• K1C: BEER WINGS & PIZZA

• The Federalist Society will be holding its elections on Thursday, April 5, 2012 in K1C. Please email us if you are interested in a position, have been active with the organization, and have never been afraid of any deviation

The Politically Correct Law School

• • Tuesday, March 20, 2012
  • 12:00pm until 1:00pm

• K2A FREE JIMMY JOHNS & BEER!

• Sponsored by the Federalist Society at Temple University Beasley School of Law & The Temple Law Republicans Is political correctness one of the primary enemies of freedom of speech? Has the dearth of conservative, libertarian, and neoliberal thinkers limited students’ exposure to different ideas, inhibiting the ability of the university to produce thoughtful citizens? Has diversity – of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, but not of ideas -- become the dominant ideology in higher education? One would think that a law school, a place where ideas can flourish freely in an open spirit of academic inquiry and in an enlightened pursuit of truth, would be precisely the place where one would be free of any orthodoxies or chilling effects on speech. But despite tenure to protect unpopular views and encouraging fresh new ideas to be explored and challenged on their merits without prejudice, we instead often find the opposite result. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law and Psychology at Chapman University’s School of Law, comprehensively examines everything from voter registration of faculty to the psychological underpinnings of political leanings in various disciplines, particularly social sciences, as well as the proclivity of the like-minded to only attract the like-minded. But does a prevalence of like-minded people necessarily lead to group-think and the stifling of fee speech? Come find out! DR. RICHARD REDDING currently serves as the Associate Dean at Chapman University Law & as Professor of Psychology at Chapman University. Dr. Redding specializes in forensic issues in criminal law, juvenile justice, the use of social science research in law & public policy, & the ways in which social & political attitudes influence how science is used in policy making. He has been published in Law & Human Behavior, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, University of Chicago Roundtable, Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, American Psychologist, & the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, as well as publications of the American Bar Association, the MacArthur Foundation, the University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, & the U.S. Justice Department.

Send Lawyers Guns and Money: Are Courts Taking Aim at the Second Amendment? With Robert Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute

Send Lawyers, Guns and Money: 

Are Courts Taking Aim at the Second Amendment? 

Thus. 3.15   12:00   K2A  FREE QDOBA 

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Does the Second Amendment protect our right to carry or transport a registered handgun outside our home? Williams v. Maryland

Should illegal aliens be prohibited from possessing a gun? US v. Portillo-Munoz

Are we really required to disclose our Social Security Numbers to buy a gun or obtain a gun carry license in Pennsylvania? Stollenwerk v. Miller

                                         Come Find Out!

ROBERT A. LEVY is chairman of the Cato Institute and served as co-counsel to Richard Hller in District of Columbia v. Heller. Levy joined Cato as senior fellow in constitutional studies & sits on the boards of the Institute for Justice, the Federalist Society & the George Mason University School of Law. He founded CDA Investment Technologies & was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University. His writing has appeared in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, National Review & he has appeared on ABC's Nightline, CNN's Crossfire, Fox's The O'Reilly Factor, MSNBC's Hardball, & NBC's Today Show.

The Environmental Shakedown: Can Markets and Property Rights Really Improve Environmental Quality?

 The Federalist Society Presents

The Environmental Shakedown

Can Markets and Property Rights Really

Improve Environmental Quality?

Tuesday, 2.28 ·12:00 · K1E · FREE JIMMY JOHNS

Dr. Bruce Yandle, Clemson University· Professor Amy Sinden, Temple Law

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Since time out of mind, human communities, like hummingbird societies, have faced a property rights challenge:  How to ration, protect and enhance the biological envelope that sustains life.  Sometime referred to as the commons problem, related legal and economic issues have to do with defining and protecting property rights to environmental assets.  In short, the problem relates to building and maintaining legal institutions.  Typically in the industrialized world, the environment is managed by government using command-and-control regulation. There are explanation for this preference based on political economy arguments. Notable exceptions to this approach involve defining markets and transferable rights for environmental assets and use.  An exploration of experiences with markets offers insights into how environmental regulation might be improved and made more viable. 

 

DR. BRUCE YANDLE is dean emeritus of Clemson University Business School as well as a professor of economics emeritus. Dr. Yandle’s primary research interests are public choice, regulation, & free market environmentalism. Dr. Yandle is the author of numerous books, including Taking the Environment Seriously, The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation, Environmental Use & the Market, Land Rights, The Economics of Environmental Quality, & most recently, Common Sense & Common Law for the Environment. Dr. Yandle was a senior economist on the staff of the President's Council on Wage & Price Stability, where he reviewed & analyzed newly proposed regulations. He later served as the executive director of the Federal Trade Commission.

AMY SINDEN is a Professor at Temple Beasley School of Law specializing in environmental & property law. Her recent academic writings have criticized the misuse of economic theory in environmental law, arguing against the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental standard setting & countering claims that private property rights can solve environmental problems in the absence of government regulation. Before joining the law school faculty, Professor Sinden served as senior counsel for Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, handling litigation on behalf of PennFuture & other citizens' & environmental groups. Prior to this position, Sinden was an attorney for the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund in Seattle, Washington, where she litigated federal environmental cases focusing on natural resource issues. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Progressive Reform.

Why Progressive Policies Always Fail with Richard Epstein & Jan Ting

The Federalist Society &

The Temple Law Republicans Present

Why Progressive Policies

Always Fail

Tuesday 2.21 × 12:00 × K2A

FREE JIMMY JOHNS

“Richard Epstein is one of the

most influential legal thinkers of modern times”

RICHARD EPSTEIN is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He is also a Scholar at the Cato Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Senior Lecturer at University of Chicago Law School, and a policy advisor for The Heartland Institute. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at University of Chicago Medical School. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Law and Economics. Legal Times chose Epstein as one of the most influential legal thinkers of modern times.

PROFESSOR JAN TING teaches courses on national security, taxation, & immigration law. His writings have been published in the New  York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and he has appeared on National Public Radio, PBS Newshour, ABC Nightline, the NBC Today Show & Dateline. Ting is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Center for Immigration Studies, & the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner at the Immigration & Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1990-93 & testified before Congress and the 9/11 Commission.

FEDERALISM v. FEMINISM: US v. Morrison Twelve Years Later: Did It Set Any Real Limits On Federal Power?

The Federalist Society & 
The Law Students for Reproductive Justice Present

FEDERALISM v. FEMINISM

US v. Morrison Twelve Years Later:

Did It Set Any Real Limits On Federal Power?

Monday 2·13 · 12:00 · K2A

FREE JIMMY JOHNS

MICHAEL ROSMAN serves as General Counsel for the Center for Individual Rights (CIR) & successfully argued on behalf of Tony Morrison in the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case of United States v. Morrison.

A graduate of Yale Law School, Rosman worked as an associate at Rosenman & Colin prior to joining CIR in 1994. Mr. Rosman is the author of several articles, including: Ambiguity & the First Amendment: Some Thoughts On All White Advertising, Standing Alone: Standing Under The Fair Housing Act, & Thoughts on Bakke & Its Effect on Race Conscious Decision Making.

WILLIAM CARTER is a Professor at Temple Beasley School of Law & specializes in constitutional law, civil rights, critical race theory, & international human rights law. His articles have been published in the UCLA Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the UC-Davis Law Review, & the Berkeley Journal of International Law.

Prior to joining our faculty in 2007, Professor Carter was a Professor of Law at Case Law School. Upon graduation from law school, Professor Carter worked as a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. offices of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey & Ropes & Gray.

The IP Wars: SOPA & PIPA: Strengthening Legitimate Protections for Rights Holders Or an Attack on the Internet?

The Federalist Society & The Intellectual Property Society Present

The IP Wars: SOPA & PIPA

 Strengthening Legitimate Protections for Rights Holders 

Or an Attack on the Internet?

  Tuesday 1/31 · 12:00 · K2A

Temple Beasley School of Law

FREE JIMMY JOHNS

Congress is currently considering a number of bills (the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the "Preventing Real Online  Threats  to  Economic  Creativity  and  Theft  of  Intellectual  Property" Act ("Protect-IP").  The bills have ignited a  firestorm of controversy -- between those who contend that they provide needed protection for US copyright- and trademark-holders faced with rampant online infringements on the one hand, and those who assert that the methods used in the bills will subvert critical Internet infrastructure and do substantial damage to the freedom of expression across the global network on the other.  Come hear what all the fuss  is about.

JUSTIN HUGHES teaches intellectual property, international trade, & internet law at Cardozo Law School & was the Director of the law school's Intellectual Property Program. Professor Hughes has also served as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, & in that capacity leads many of the United States' delegations at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Before joining academia, Hughes did intellectual property policy in the Clinton Administration. As a Henry Luce Scholar, he clerked for the Lord President of the Malaysian Supreme Court in Kuala Lumpur.


DAVID POST is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at Temple. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Post clerked with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, & during her first term on the Supreme Court. He then spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, practicing in the areas of intellectual property law & high technology commercial transactions. Professor Post is a Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a Fellow of the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School, an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, a writer for the Volokh Conspiracy & the author of In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace.

IX: THOU SHALT DISCRIMINATE: Ordained Employment Discrimination

 IX: THOU SHALT DISCRIMINATE: 

Hosanna Tabor v. EEOC: Ordained Employment Discrimination

Thursday 1/26 · 12:00 · K1D

Temple Beasley School of Law

FREE JIMMY JOHNS

KENNETH KLUKOWSKI is a national-bestselling author and a Washington, D.C.based legal analyst and policy consultant, specializing in the Constitution. He is director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council, a fellow and senior analyst with the American Civil Rights Union. Ken is a writer for Townhall.com, covering the Supreme Court, Politico.com, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, and the Wall Street Journal.

LORI ARMSTRONG HALBER is an Employment Law Professor at Temple Law School & a Partner at Jackson Lewis LLP. Ms. Halber represents management in all aspects of labor relations & employment law & has extensive experience defending employers before federal & state courts & administrative agencies in matters involving Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, & the Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as common law restrictive covenants, breach of contract & wrongful discharge claims.

Rehabilitating Lochner with David Bernstein & Prof. Robert Reinstein

Temple Federalist Society Presents

Rehabilitating Lochner

Thursday, January 19 · 12:00 · K2B

FREE JIMMY JOHNS

David Bernstein, George Mason Law · Robert Reinstein, Temple Law

 DAVID BERNSTEIN is a Professor at the George Mason University School of Law & is the preeminent expert on the Lochner era of American constitutional jurisprudence. Bernstein's nationally renowned work on Lochner v. New York is notable because he argues that the Supreme Court's liberty of contract jurisprudence was primarily rights-based, rather than resulting from concerns over "class legislation". This 1905 decision invalidated state laws limiting work hours & became the leading case contending that novel economic regulations were unconstitutional. He argues that the decision was well grounded in precedent & that modern constitutional jurisprudence owes at least as much to the limited-government ideas of Lochner proponents as to the more expansive vision of its Progressive opponents. Tracing the influence of this decision through subsequent battles over segregation laws, sex discrimination, civil liberties, he argues not only that the court acted reasonably in Lochner, but that Lochner & like-minded cases have been widely misunderstood & unfairly maligned.

 ROBERT J. REINSTEIN is a Professor & the former Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law. A cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, he worked for the NAACP, where he served as a consulting attorney & participated in a number of successful class-action civil rights cases. He also worked with the U.S. Department of Justice as a Senior Attorney in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division and as the Chief of the General Litigation Section. In addition to his legal practice, Reinstein served as a visiting professor at institutions including Georgetown University Law Center, University of Tel Aviv, and Temple University Japan. He has been a member of the Temple University faculty since 1969. In addition to his professorship, he served as University Counsel for Temple University from 1982 to 1989, advising the President, Board of Trustees, and other University officials on legal matters.

A Debate on Original Intent with Professor Craig Green

THE PHILADELPHIA LAWYERS FEDERALIST SOCIETY 

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TEMPLE, PENN & RUTGERS

FEDERALIST SOCIETIES INVITE YOU TO

A Debate on Original Intent

Professor Craig Green

Temple Law School

Professor Stephanos Bibas

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Professor Earl Maltz

Rutgers University School of Law – Camden

Professor Gerardo Vidostegui

Rutgers University School of Law – Camden

Thursday, January 19, 2012

BLANK ROME LLP

Marvin Comisky Conference Center

One Logan Square

130 North 18th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Registration: 5:00 p.m.

Program begins: 5:30 p.m.

Free for Students – Business Attire

RSVP VIA E-MAIL TO CLEADMIN@PHILAFEDSOC.ORG, OR CALL MEREDITH COOPER AT (215) 569-5500

All Invited! Federalist Society Intro Meeting with Professor Post

• • • When

      Tuesday, January 10, 2012
    • Time

      12:00pm until 1:00pm

  • Where

    K1D

  • Description

    The Temple Federalist Society will be having its introductory meeting on Tuesday, January 10 in K1D at noon. Lunch will be provided, so invite your friends! We will be discussing our upcoming speakers, and will be hosting Professor Post who will be discussing his current research. All are welcome!