Saturday, March 31, 2012

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

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

Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Politically Correct Law School

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. 

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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 

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.