The Climate Litigation Swindle: A Conversation with Heather Mac Donald
Orange County Lawyer Chapter
Please join us as Mac Donald explores what happens when the Western tradition of impersonal causation gives way to redistribution dressed as tort law—and what the legal profession stands to lose if it does.
Cost:
$30/members, $35/non-members
$20/students
Includes lunch and 1 hour of MCLE credit (the Federalist Society is a California State Bar approved provider of MCLE).
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About the Speaker:
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. A nonpracticing attorney, she graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English, summa cum laude, and received a Mellon Fellowship to Clare College, Cambridge, where she earned an M.A. in English. She holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, after which she clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She subsequently served as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has testified frequently before U.S. House and Senate committees.
Mac Donald is the author of When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives (2023); The Diversity Delusion (2018); The War on Cops (2016), a New York Times bestseller; Are Cops Racist? (2010); and The Burden of Bad Ideas (2001). Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The New Criterion, among many others. She is the recipient of the 2025 Edmund Burke Award from The New Criterion and the 2005 Bradley Prize. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called her "the greatest thinker on criminal justice in America today."
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As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.
