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The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. This podcast feed contains audio files of Federalist Society panel discussions, debates, addresses, and other events related to law and public policy. Additional audio and video can be found at https://fedsoc.org/commentary .
Episodes
- Plenary Panel 4: Justice Alito’s Impact on Religious Liberties & Speech
This panel will analyze Justice Alito’s contributions to the Supreme Court’s religious liberty and free speech jurisprudence. Panelists will examine his role in shaping the Court’s approach to the Free Exercise and Establ…
- Plenary Panel 3: Justice Alito’s Impact on Criminal Law & Procedure
Justice Alito has played a significant role in shaping contemporary criminal law and procedure, particularly in cases involving the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments. This panel will explore his influence on doctrines governing s…
- Plenary Panel 2: Justice Alito's Jurisprudence
This panel will examine Justice Samuel Alito’s jurisprudence as a whole, with particular attention to the principles and methodologies that have guided his judicial analysis and decision-making. Panelists will discuss Justice Alito&r…
- Plenary Panel 1: Justice Alito's Impact on Statutory Interpretation
Justice Alito’s statutory interpretation jurisprudence reflects a sustained commitment to textual analysis, structural coherence, and due respect for legislative prerogatives. This panel will assess his approach to interpreting feder…
- [2025 NLC] Showcase Panel 4: Science in the Courts After COVID and Skrmetti
CLE credit for this event is available at On-Demand CLE. From litigation challenging COVID regulations to the recent legal challenges to state laws regulating transgender surgery and medications to recent actions to reassess the EPA's "End…
- [2025 NLC] Showcase Panel 3: AI for the Law, and Law for AI
CLE credit for this event is available at On-Demand CLE. The advent and rise of AI over the past several years poses radical questions for lawyers and the law. How will AI change the practice of law, including the work of law firms and ins…
- [2025 NLC] Showcase Panel 2: Immigration and Originalism
CLE credit for this event is available at On-Demand CLE. What do the tools of originalism teach us about significant immigration legal issues? For example, what was the President’s authority to remove aliens at the time of the Foundi…
- [2025 NLC] Showcase Panel 1: Landmark SCOTUS Decisions of the 2020s
CLE credit for this event is available at On-Demand CLE. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Roberts Court. Many of the Court's most high-profile rulings have occurred this decade—and the decade is only half over. The advocat…
- Closing Banquet and Fireside Chat with Hon. James C. Ho and Allyson Newton Ho, and Presentation of the Annual Joseph Story Award and Feddie
Overflow: Hutchins Hall Michigan Law School We are pleased to announce that the Honorable James C. Ho & Allyson Newton Ho will be the keynote speakers for a Fireside Chat at the Saturday evening banquet. Hon. James C. Ho, Judge, United Sta…
- Panel IV: Congress and Court Reform: Jurisdiction Stripping, Court Packing, and Beyond
Featuring: Prof. Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Prof. Tara Leigh Grove, Professor and Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law Prof. Richard Primus, Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Prof…
- Debate: Presidential Power and Congress's Response
Featuring: Prof. Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School Prof. Julian Davis Mortenson, James G. Phillipp Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law Sc…
- Panel III: Congress and the Administrative State: Prospects for Regulatory Reform
Featuring: Prof. Nicholas Bagley, Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School Prof. Emily Bremer, Professor, Notre Dame Law School Prof. Jennifer Nou, Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law S…
- Panel II: Congress and the Constitution: The Separation of Powers in Action
Featuring: Prof. Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Hon. Justin Amash, former United States Congressma…
- Panel I: How We Got Here – The Supreme Court’s “Anti-Administrativist” Turn?
Featuring: Prof. Jeffrey Pojanowski, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School Prof. Jennifer L. Mascott, Director of the Separation of Powers Institute and Associate Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America Colu…
- Arthur N. Rupe Debate: Public Servants or Permanent Rulers? The Future of the Civil Service
Featuring: Prof. John F. Duffy, Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Intellectual Property Law, University of Virginia School of Law Prof. Christopher J. Walker, Professor, University of Michigan Law School Mod…
- An Introduction to Sheldon Gilbert
Featuring: Sheldon Gilbert, President and CEO, The Federalist Society Moderator: Jesse Panuccio, Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
- Panel 3: The Future of Executive Power
In recent years the Supreme Court has decided critically important executive power and administrative law cases. From agency deference and adjudication, to presidential immunity, to “jaw boning”—what does it all mean for…
- A Conversation Among Circuits
Featuring: Hon. Gregory J. Katsas, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit Hon. Barbara Lagoa, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit Hon. Steven J. Menashi, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Hon. Amul R. Thapar, U.S. Cour…
- Panel 1: Retrospectives on 25 years of Judicial Reform in Florida
Nearly twenty five years after the election of Governor Jeb Bush, the Florida state courts have transformed. Previously, many state judges had a more activist, progressive view of the role of a judge. Today, many state judges hold original…
- Opening Fireside Chat
Featuring: Hon. Jeb Bush, Former Governor, Florida Moderator: Raquel “Rocky” Rodriguez, Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC and Former General Counsel to Governor Jeb Bush, 2002 - 2007
- Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Featuring: Prof. Sadie Blanchard, "Adjudicating ESG Reputation," Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School Prof. Benjamin Chen, "What are Linguistic Canons for?," Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Prof. Ro…
- Panel: The Future of Administrative Statutes
This panel will explore the Court’s recent decision in Loper Bright as well as its major questions cases. What impact will overturning Chevron deference have on the major questions doctrine? How do the two doctrinal developments rela…
- Luncheon Panel: Abortion Law After Dobbs
Featuring: Prof. Stephanie Barclay, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Dean Rachel Rebouché, Kean Family Dean and Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law Prof. Stephen Sachs, Antonin Scal…
- Panel: Regulation of Algorithms
Opaque algorithms shape what news stories you see on social media, dictate how artificial intelligence answers prompts, and can even decide whether applicants get a mortgage or a job interview. Amidst claims of algorithmic race, gender, an…
- Remarks by AALS President-Elect Austen Parrish
- Luncheon Discussion: South Africa v. Israel Case: Allegations of Israeli Genocide in Gaza
Featuring: Prof. Sam Estreicher, Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Public Law, New York University School of Law Prof. Chimène Keitner, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California Davis School of Law Moderator: H…
- Showcase Panel IV: Race in the Law After SFFA
Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard was the most important decision on affirmative action in generations, banning preferential treatment based on race in higher education admissions. How are colleges and universities complying with SFFA…
- Hon. Robert H. Bork Memorial Lecture
The 2024 National Lawyers Convention will take place November 14-16, 2024 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. The topic of the conference is "Group Identity and the Law." The conference will conclude with the annual Hon. Robert H.…
- 16th Annual Rosenkranz Debate & Luncheon
RESOLVED: That Congress Can Ban TikTok Featuring: Mr. Miguel Estrada, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Mr. Patrick Philbin, Partner, Torridon Law PLLC Moderator: Prof. Eugene Volokh, Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; G…
- Intellectual Property: Intellectual Property Rights with the Emergence of AI
Artificial Intelligence is now part of daily life. AI has improved efficiency, predicted outcomes with accuracy, and even created innovations. At the same time, however, AI and its capabilities are evolving faster than the laws and regulat…
- Practice Groups: Physician, Heal Thyself— Regulatory Reform of the Legal Profession
In the twentieth century, state supreme courts and legislatures limited the practice of law to licensed law school graduates and prevented nonlawyers from investing in law firms. This regulatory structure has not yielded a sufficient suppl…
- Labor & Employment Law: Agency Exuberance: A Flaw or Feature in Labor and Employment Law?
Featuring: Ms. Rebecca Dormon, Labor Consultant, People Results Mr. Pepper Crutcher, Partner, Balch & Bingham LLP Mr. Bradford J. Kelley, Shareholder, Littler Moderator: Hon. Chad A. Readler, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- Practice Groups: Applying the Text and History Methodology to Looming Second Amendment Battles After Rahimi
Last term, the Supreme Court decided United States v. Rahimi, which built upon the text-first, history-second methodology articulated by the Supreme Court in Heller and reaffirmed in Bruen. Many hot button Second Amendment issues are perco…
- 23rd Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture
(Ticketed event) On September 11, 2001, at the age of 45 and at the height of her professional and personal life, Barbara K. Olson was murdered in the terrorist attacks against the United States as a passenger on the hijacked American Airl…
- In-House Counsel Network: The Litigation Environment - Public Nuisance, Market-Share, and Consumer Protection Liability
Theories of nuisance, market-share, and consumer protection liability have become increasingly popular among plaintiffs who cannot trace an alleged harm to any specific defendant. Recently, states and local governments have sought to impos…
- Campus Chaos: Protected Speech or Unprotected Conduct?
Over the past year, college campuses have been filled with student protests and demonstrations. A large number of these protests involved students camping out on campus for weeks, taking over administrative and academic buildings, harassin…
- International and National Security Law: Engage or Disengage: How Should the Next United States Administration Interact with the Internation
As international courts have addressed issues arising from the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas wars, we will explore whether engagement with the ICC and ICJ institutions is beneficial or harmful to the United States and how U.S. policymake…
- Telecommunications & Electronic Media Practice Group: Administration in Review and What Lies Ahead: Communications and Technology Policy Cha
Featuring a conversation addressing regulation of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, tech platform regulation, privacy, spectrum policy, broadband funding and other government spending, and consumer protection issues. Featuring: Ms. R…
- Fireside Chat with Senator Eric Schmitt
Featuring: Hon. Eric Schmitt, United States Senator, Missouri Moderator: Mr. Elbert Lin, Former Solicitor General, West Virginia; Chair, Issues & Appeals, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
- Freedom of Thought: On Building a Courageous and Effective Career
Accomplishing anything of significance in this political environment requires courage. The legal industry has a few well-trodden pathways: law school, clerkship, large law firm, and perhaps a brief stint in government. Yet without courage,…
- Showcase Panel II: How Should the Law Discourage Tribalism, Polarization, Racism, Religious Enmity, and Antisemitism in the United States?
Most would agree that all of these [tribalism, polarization, racism, religious enmity, and antisemitism] are bad for society. They are perhaps a particular threat in a democracy like ours, which is predicated on the idea that people of ver…
- Practice Groups: Data, Algorithmic Integrity and AI
Much has been made of the promise and concerns around AI technical advances, and guardrails that might be considered to reduce the downside of opaque quasi-algorithmic outcomes associated with current large language model approaches. This…
- Corporations, Securities, & Antitrust: The Future of Antitrust
Critics have raised concerns about the inadequacy of the consumer welfare standard for the 21st century, while others defend the standard as a proven and manageable test. Has the focus on consumer welfare led to under-enforcement? Is there…
- Administrative Law and Regulation: What Is the Future of Administrative Law?
The Supreme Court's latest term was one of its most significant for administrative law. The Court ended Chevron deference, declared a right to a jury trial in securities fraud adjudications at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and ex…
- Criminal Law & Procedure: Evaluating the Progressive Prosecutor Experiment
It has been almost ten years since the advent of the ‘progressive prosecutor,’ local elected district attorneys and attorneys general throughout the country who ran on and then implemented a revolutionary new model of public pr…
- Practice Groups: The Continued Independence of the Judiciary
Recent times have seen growing criticism of the Supreme Court's legitimacy, with some claiming that the Supreme Court has amassed too much governmental and political power. Such critics have proposed judicial reform to even out this percei…
- Litigation Practice Group: Diversity and Modern Litigation
CLE credit for this event is available at On-Demand CLE. In recent years, the legal profession has increasingly prioritized diversity in law firm hiring and litigation leadership, driven by demands from corporate clients, alumni, and judge…
- Professional Responsibility: Oversight or Micromanagement? The ABA & Law Schools
In 2022, the ABA updated its Standard 303, Curriculum which relates to “cross-cultural competency” and “professional identity.” Because the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is respons…
- Religious Liberties: Religious Liberty, Parental Rights, and the Challenges Posed by the Transgender Movement
State and federal laws in a wide variety of settings tend to support gender transition in children. This has given rise to religious liberty and parental rights lawsuits. Conflicts include parental objections to gender ideology in public s…
- Environmental Law & Property Rights: Environmental Law in a Post-Chevron World— How Should Congress, Agencies, and States Respond?
This year, in a pair of decisions known as Loper Bright, the Supreme Court overruled the Chevron doctrine. As courts begin to apply the principles announced in Loper Bright, important changes are expected to occur within the federal govern…