David H. Souter

Achieving Meaningful Civil Justice Reform: Is the Defense Bar a Problem?

Ralph K. Winter

Corporations, Securities & Antitrust Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 2, Spring 1997

Today's luncheon program is titled, "Meaningful Change in our Civil Justice System: Is the Defense...

Widow Suitum Fights a "Strange Doctrine"

James S. Burling

Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 2, Spring 1997

The point of Suitum v. Tahoe Regional Planning Authority, argued before the United States Supreme...

SCOTUScast 2-28-07 featuring Richard Epstein

Richard A. Epstein

Philip Morris USA v. Williams and Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Ross-Simmons

Phillip Morris v. Williams In a case arising out of the death of a smoker...

Criminal Jurisdiction of Indian Tribes: Should Non-Indians Be Subject to Tribal Criminal Authority Under VAWA?

Thomas F. Gede

Engage Volume 13, Issue 2, July 2012

Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 1978 decision in Oliphant v. Suquamish Tribe,1...

Pleading, Discovery, and the Federal Rules: Exploring the Foundations of Modern Procedure

Martin Redish

Engage Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2011

Note from the Editor: In December 2010, the Federalist Society heard from a number of...

Business Cases and the Roberts Supreme Court

Martin J. Newhouse

Engage Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2011

The statement that the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roberts, and more specifically the Court...

After Espinoza, What’s Left of the Establishment Clause?

Carl H. Esbeck

Federalist Society Review, Volume 21

 Note from the Editor:  The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...

Solicitor General Kagan’s Confirmation Hearing

Paul E. Mirengoff, Carrie Campbell Severino, Adam Winkler, Richard W. Garnett

Online Debate

UPDATED: 11 AM,  July 8, 2010 On May 10, 2010 President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena...

Justice Stevens’ Retirement & Filling the Vacancy

Carrie Campbell Severino, Scott Moss, Richard H. Pildes, David R. Stras

Online Debate

Updated: 9 AM, May 5, 2010 On Friday, April 9, 2010, Justice John Paul Stevens...

Whither the Rule of Lenity

Dan Levin, Nathaniel Stewart

The “rule of lenity” “requires ambiguous criminal laws to be interpreted in favor of the...