FedSoc Events

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 School
Moderator: Hon. Joan Larsen, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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 School
Hon. Paul J. Ray, Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Moderator: Hon. Neomi Rao, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

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 Congressman from Michigan
Prof. Josh Chafetz, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown University Law Center
Prof. Gillian E. Metzger, Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law, Columbia Law School
Amanda H. Neely, Of Counsel, Gibson Dunn and former General Counsel to Senator Rob Portman
Moderator: Hon. Robert J. Luck, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

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 Columbus School of Law
Prof. Nina A. Mendelson, Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program, University of Michigan Law School
Prof. Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Prof. Aaron Nielson, Solicitor General of Texas and Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Law School
Moderator: Hon. Chad A. Readler, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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
Moderator: Sarah Isgur, Senior Editor, The Dispatch

Featuring:

Sheldon Gilbert, President and CEO, The Federalist Society
Moderator: Jesse Panuccio, Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP

The courtroom has emerged as the new battleground for political wars. Increasingly, political candidates are looking to government agencies and judges to target adverse views and ideologies. This panel will examine the genesis of modern lawfare, explain its consequences, and then offer proposed solutions to mediate, eliminate, or ameliorate its effects.
Featuring:

Mike Berry, Executive Director, Center for Litigation, America First Policy Institute
Anna Bower, Senior Editor, Lawfare Media
Mike Davis, Founder, MRDLaw
Jesus Suarez, Partner, Continental PLLC
Moderator: Hon. Jason Reding Quiñones, Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida

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 the future of the presidency and the administrative state the president oversees? How might the country’s new president approach these issues?
Featuring:

Steven Engel, Partner, Dechert LLP
Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University
Sarah Harris, Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP
Moderator: Hon. Chad Readler, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

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. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
Moderator: Hon. Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, U.S. District Court, Middle District of 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 originalist and textualists views of judicial interpretation. Our panel will consider the last 25 years of judicial appointments in Florida, discussing how the roles of the executive, the JNC, and the conservative legal movement have contributed to these transformations. They will discuss how the Florida Supreme Court today differs from the Court that ruled on Bush v. Gore in 2000.
Featuring:

Jason Gonzalez, Shareholder, Lawson Huck Gonzalez, PLLC and Former General Counsel to Governor Charlie Crist, 2008
Ryan Newman, General Counsel to Governor Ron DeSantis, 2021 - 2025
Daniel Nordby, Partner, Shutts & Bowen LLP, Former General Counsel to Governor Rick Scott, 2017 - 2019
Jesse Panuccio, Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and Former General Counsel to Governor Rick Scott, 2012 - 2013
Raquel “Rocky” Rodriguez, Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC and Former General Counsel to Governor Jeb Bush, 2002 - 2007
Moderator: Hon. T. Kent Wetherell II, Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida and Former Deputy Solicitor General of Florida, 1999-2002