Senior Litigation Counsel, New Civil Liberties Alliance
Peggy Little, Senior Counsel at New Civil Liberties Alliance, a new public interest law firm challenging the administrative state founded in 2017 by Professor Philip Hamburger, has over three decades of experience as a trial and appellate litigator in complex, high-stakes regulatory, mass-tort, class-action, products liability, securities, commercial and civil rights litigation representing individuals and high-profile litigants including Fortune 50 companies, financial institutions, public companies, and universities in state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.
Peggy is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Potter Stewart Prize. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to starting her own trial and appellate law firm in 1997, where she was appellate consulting counsel to the New Haven firefighters in Ricci v.DeStefano, a landmark 2009 United States Supreme Court decision, Peggy was a partner at Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn in New Haven, Connecticut. From 2004 to early 2018, Peggy directed, part-time, the Federalist Society Pro Bono Center.
Peggy has participated in many national conferences and symposia addressing issues of current importance in constitutional law – specifically state and federal constitutional questions regarding the separation of powers and the first amendment – and regularly speaks, blogs and publishes on the topic of the unconstitutional exercise of governmental power. In May of 2017, she presented her paper, Pirates at the Parchment Gates, to a conference of state and federal judges at the Law and Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School. Her work has been published by law reviews, legal publications, the Federalist Society, the Wall Street Journal, Law and Liberty and the Manhattan Institute.
Recent publications include: How the SEC silences its critics, The SEC should listen to Sen. Cotton, Lucia v. SEC, Opening Salvos in the Opioid Litigation Wars, Straight Dope on the Opioid Crisis
Publius comes from the pen name Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay used when they wrote 85 publicly printed letters now known as the Federalist Papers. Hamilton chose “Publius” as a name that would represent friends of the newly proposed American republic - Publius Valeria Publicola was a Roman general who helped to found the Roman Republic. The Federalist Society continues the tradition of publishing things under the name Publius in celebration of our constitutional roots and recognition that author credit is not always necessary.
Publius comes from the pen name Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay used when they wrote 85 publicly printed letters now known as the Federalist Papers. Hamilton chose “Publius” as a name that would represent friends of the newly proposed American republic - Publius Valeria Publicola was a Roman general who helped to found the Roman Republic. The Federalist Society continues the tradition of publishing things under the name Publius in celebration of our constitutional roots and recognition that author credit is not always necessary.
Publius comes from the pen name Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay used when they wrote 85 publicly printed letters now known as the Federalist Papers. Hamilton chose “Publius” as a name that would represent friends of the newly proposed American republic - Publius Valeria Publicola was a Roman general who helped to found the Roman Republic. The Federalist Society continues the tradition of publishing things under the name Publius in celebration of our constitutional roots and recognition that author credit is not always necessary.
Publius comes from the pen name Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay used when they wrote 85 publicly printed letters now known as the Federalist Papers. Hamilton chose “Publius” as a name that would represent friends of the newly proposed American republic - Publius Valeria Publicola was a Roman general who helped to found the Roman Republic. The Federalist Society continues the tradition of publishing things under the name Publius in celebration of our constitutional roots and recognition that author credit is not always necessary.
Professor of Law, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University
Richard T. Bowser serves as an adjunct faculty member for the School of Business and as a Professor of Law for the University’s law school. Bowser is a graduate of Campbell Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary and Grove City College.
He has taught and written upon a wide range of topics including constitutional law, legal philosophy, wills and trusts, and estate planning. He is a co-author of the treatise, Wiggins’ Wills and Administration of Estates in North Carolina.
On many occasions, Bowser has been recognized as an outstanding and demanding member of the faculty. Students have voted him “Professor of the Year” three times, he has received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence twice, and in September of 2009, his students honored his service to them and to the school by naming the law school’s client counseling competition after him.
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law.
Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science. Before that he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008, and from 1983-2004 was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. He also has taught at DePaul College of Law and UCLA Law School.
He is the author of eleven books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent books are, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (Picador Macmillan) published in November 2018, and two books published by Yale University Press in 2017, Closing the Courthouse Doors: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable and Free Speech on Campus (with Howard Gillman).
He also is the author of more than 200 law review articles. He writes a regular column for the Sacramento Bee, monthly columns for the ABA Journal and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.
In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States.
Margaret A. Little Reviews Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
Margaret A. Little
Theodore Dalrymple, the pen name of a British doctor and writer, has justly been recognized...
The State of Eminent Domain Law
Publius
Introduction When Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion in Kelo v. New London,...
Florida Supreme Court Strikes Down School Voucher Program
Publius
Since 1999, Florida’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (the “OSP”)1 provided students in failing public schools,2 which...
Texas Supreme Court Declares the State School Finance System Unconstitutional
Publius
The Texas Supreme Court recently issued a decision interpreting two key provisions of the state...
Courts As School Boards
Publius
Public schools in South Carolina are now under judicial oversight. Right after Christmas, a state...
State Court Docket Watch March 2006
Table of Contents
Texas Supreme Court Declares the State School Finance System Unconstitutional The State of Eminent Domain...
Engage Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2006
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW & REGULATION DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno and the Constitutionality of State Tax Incentives...
God and Government - Transcript
E. Gregory Wallace, Richard Bowser, Erwin Chemerinsky
Transcript for the panel disussion "God and Government" presented by the Federalist Society's Student Division...
Bar Watch Bulletin February 16, 2006
Special: Domestic Survillance Task Force
Over the past 72 hours, the American Bar Association has received much press attention for...
Bar Watch Bulletin February 15, 2006
House of Delegates
The American Bar Association's Midyear Meeting took place in Chicago from Wednesday, February 8 until...