Sep 3 2024 Topics Founding Era & History • Litigation • Supreme Court Blog Post Understanding Justice Thomas and Justice Barrett’s Fight Over History GianCarlo Canaparo, Curtis B. Herbert It’s unusual to see news articles about disagreements between Supreme Court Justices, especially with phrases...
Apr 9 2024 Video Challenges to Originalism X: Living Constitutionalism is Superior to Originalism Lee J. Strang The Federalist Society's Student Division & University of Virginia School of Law Student Chapterpresent Challenges...
Mar 26 2024 Video Challenges to Originalism VIII: Common Good Constitutionalism is Superior to Originalism Lee J. Strang The Federalist Society's Student Division & Michigan Law School Student Chapterpresent Challenges to Originalism...
Feb 2 2024 Video Panel I: What is General Common Law and How do Originalist/Textualist Judges Use It? Emily Bremer, Barbara Lagoa, Robert Leider, Amul R. Thapar Justice Antonin Scalia succeeded in making textualism the predominant method of legal interpretation. But now...
Dec 20 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review A Deeper Originalism: From Court-Centered Jurisprudence to Constitutional Self-Government Johnathan O'Neill Originalism has substantially reoriented constitutional discourse since it first reemerged in response to the Warren...
Nov 17 2023 Video Event Videos Second Amendment: Will the Supreme Court Adhere to Bruen (and Originalism) in Rahimi and Beyond? William G. Merkel, Mark W. Smith, David H. Thompson, Lawrence VanDyke Oral argument was held in U.S. v. Rahimi on November 7, 2023. The case asks...
Oct 1 2023 Publication The Federalist Paper The Federalist Paper, Fall 2023 Preparations for the National Lawyers Convention are in full swing at the FedSoc headquarters! We...
Jun 23 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review Textualism in Alabama Jay Mitchell Textualism is alive and well in Alabama. This interpretive doctrine teaches that legal texts have...
May 18 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review Originalism Carries On Donald A. Daugherty A review of Erwin Chemerinsky, A Momentous Year in the Supreme Court: October Term 2021...
Apr 11 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Arizona Supreme Court Takes Aim at Legislative Intent in Tax Case Arizona Department of Revenue v. Tunkey[1] concerned Arizona’s transaction privilege tax (“TPT”). The unanimous Arizona...
Topics
Understanding Justice Thomas and Justice Barrett’s Fight Over History
It’s unusual to see news articles about disagreements between Supreme Court Justices, especially with phrases...
Challenges to Originalism X: Living Constitutionalism is Superior to Originalism
Lee J. Strang
The Federalist Society's Student Division & University of Virginia School of Law Student Chapterpresent Challenges...
Challenges to Originalism VIII: Common Good Constitutionalism is Superior to Originalism
Lee J. Strang
The Federalist Society's Student Division & Michigan Law School Student Chapterpresent Challenges to Originalism...
Panel I: What is General Common Law and How do Originalist/Textualist Judges Use It?
Emily Bremer, Barbara Lagoa, Robert Leider, Amul R. Thapar
Justice Antonin Scalia succeeded in making textualism the predominant method of legal interpretation. But now...
A Deeper Originalism: From Court-Centered Jurisprudence to Constitutional Self-Government
Johnathan O'Neill
Originalism has substantially reoriented constitutional discourse since it first reemerged in response to the Warren...
Second Amendment: Will the Supreme Court Adhere to Bruen (and Originalism) in Rahimi and Beyond?
William G. Merkel, Mark W. Smith, David H. Thompson, Lawrence VanDyke
Oral argument was held in U.S. v. Rahimi on November 7, 2023. The case asks...
The Federalist Paper, Fall 2023
Preparations for the National Lawyers Convention are in full swing at the FedSoc headquarters! We...
Textualism in Alabama
Jay Mitchell
Textualism is alive and well in Alabama. This interpretive doctrine teaches that legal texts have...
Originalism Carries On
Donald A. Daugherty
A review of Erwin Chemerinsky, A Momentous Year in the Supreme Court: October Term 2021...
Arizona Supreme Court Takes Aim at Legislative Intent in Tax Case
Arizona Department of Revenue v. Tunkey[1] concerned Arizona’s transaction privilege tax (“TPT”). The unanimous Arizona...