Elie Mystal, who graduated from law school at the same time as I did, has bad memories of Elena Kagan from when he had her for Civ Pro as a 1L. [UPDATE: Read The Whole Thing, the commenters remind me to say.] For what it’s worth, here are my own impressions of Elena Kagan: I […]
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Elena Kagan: “I LOVE the Federalist Society! I LOVE the Federalist Society!”
By Jim Lindgren on May 10, 2010 12:10 am in American Constitution Society, Federalist Society, Kagan Nomination, Supreme Court
Charles Fried tells part of the story about Elena Kagan’s appearance at a Federalist Society dinner at Harvard a few years ago: In February 2005 the student branch of the Federalist Society (a group founded in the early ’80s to explore and promote conservative and libertarian perspectives on the law) held its national jamboree at […]
“Federalist Society Types” Were Committed to Judicial Enforcement of Federalism Long Before Obamacare
By Ilya Somin on March 25, 2010 10:46 pm in Commerce Clause, Federalism, Federalist Society, Health Care, Taxing and Spending Clause
University of Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos decries what he calls “the recent conversion of so many Federalist Society types to the virtues of aggressive judicial review of legislative enactments” in the wake of the enactment of Obamacare. Campos’ claim of a “recent conversion” could hardly be more wrong. If there’s one thing that most […]
How the “Independent” Fourth Estate Has Failed in its Critical Duty
Fourth installment in a five-part series on Silverglate’s book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. In a discussion on WAMU Radio yesterday, host Kojo Nnamdi noted that vagueness in the federal criminal law has recently made “strange bedfellows” of the political left and right. This same “emerging consensus” was also the […]
Addressing the Most Important Weakness of Conservative-Libertarian Public Interest Law
By Ilya Somin on December 10, 2009 7:58 pm in Conservatism, Federalist Society, Libertarianism, Public Interest Law
I recently renewed my membership in the Federalist Society, and got a mailing asking to sign up with the Fed Soc Pro Bono Center. I was only vaguely aware of this organization’s existence, even though it is a potentially important effort to address the most important shortcoming of conservative and libertarian public interest law. Perhaps […]
Is Federalist Society Membership an Obstacle to Getting Law Firm Jobs?
The ongoing discussion over the law firm partner who decided to reject all job applicants with Federalist Society membership raises the question of how common discrimination against Federalist Society members really is in the law firm world. The only real way to get a definitive answer to this question is to look at systematic data […]
The Ethics of Discriminating Against Federalist Society Members For Law Firm Jobs
Randy Cohen’s The Ethicist column in the New York Times responds to the following reader question: While interviewing law students for jobs as paid summer interns and full-time associates for my firm, I noticed several had résumés listing their activities in the Federalist Society. Some of my partners have conservative views similar to those of […]