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Gmail.gov: When Politics Gets Personal, Does the Public Have a Right to Know?
Note from the Editor: This paper examines whether e-mail regarding official government business sent on...
American Family Law and Sharia-Compliant Marriages
Note from the Editor: This paper analyzes cases in which American courts and judicial systems...
No Conservative Consensus Yet: Douglas Ginsburg, Brett Kavanaugh, and Diane Sykes on the Second Amendment
Note from the Editor: This paper examines the largely unexplored subject of the different approaches...
Losing Confidence in Confidentiality: Do Expanding Exceptions to the Attorney-Client Privilege Gut Its Purpose?
True or false: attorney-client communications, simply speaking, are privileged? False, both under law and—more importantly—in...
Veiled Meaning: Tolerance and Prohibition of the Hijab in the U.S. and France
Introduction France and the U.S. have much in common. Both nations share a commitment to...
Philadelphia Tort Litigation: Forum Shopping and Venue Reform
The Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy initiatives. Any expressions...
School Discipline and Disparate Impact
Note from the Editor: This paper analyzes the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed use of...
Madness, Deinstitutionalization & Murder
For those of us who came of age in the 1970s, one of the most...
Mexico's Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives
In recent years, gun control has become an important international issue. For example, some persons...
Are the Recent Recess Appointments Constitutional?
Mr. Reuter: Welcome to the Federalist Society’s practice group podcast. The following podcast, hosted by...
Local Patent Rules - Certainty and Efficiency or a Crazy Quilt of Substantive Law?
More than a decade ago, the United States District Court for the Northern District of...
The European Court of Human Rights - A European Constitutional Court?
Legal discussions of constitutionalism will typically focus on national developments and differences between various national...
The Ohio Constitution of 1803, Jefferson's Danbury Letter, and Religion in Education
That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to...
Eleventh Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture
I thank Gene for that kind introduction, and of course the Federalist Society for the...
Forgotten No More. A Review of Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly
It is a commonplace of constitutional interpretation that the shorter the constitutional provision, the more...
The Upside-Down Constitution by Michael S. Greve
“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics...
The Economics and Regulation of Bank Overdraft Protection
Consumer use of bank overdraft protection has risen rapidly over the past decade. In 2010,...
Changing Landscape: Thrift Holding Companies and Their New Regulator
The Dodd-Frank Act, effective July 21, 2011, eliminated the Office of Thrift Supervision (“OTS”) and...