Nationalizing Same Sex Marriage Through the Side Door: The Lessons of Dred Scott, Lemmon v. The People, and Article IV of the Constitution

MICHAEL STOKES PAULSEN

Monday, November 16^th, 12:10 PM  JG 103   Lunch will be provided

It's a Girl: The (Incredibly) Difficult Question of the Constitutionality of Banning Sex-Selection Abortion

Do Women Need Affirmative Action
Diana Furchtogott-Roth of the Hudson Institute
Thursday October 8, 12:10 PM JG 105
Lunch will be Served

Monday September 21st

1L Elections

Friday, September 18, 11 am - 3 pm

2nd Annual B(law)ck Party

B(law)ck Party is a festival of student organizations and food and
 fun.

POSTPONED: Thursday, September 10, 12:10 pm

The Case For and Against Cap and Trade

A Debate: Professor Jonathan Adler and Professor Mike Gerrard

Wednesday, August 19: Orientation Dinner and State Drink Night

Spring 2009

Thursday, February 12 at 7:30 pm

Quizzo

Good ol' fashioned trivia, pizza, and drinks! 

Lenfest Cafe

Wednesday, January 28 at 4:30 pm

Susette Kelo’s Little Pink House

Featuring Susette Kelo and Jeff Benedict

Ms. Kelo and Mr. Benedict are the authors of a recent book regarding the 2005 Supreme Court case of Kelo v. City of New London . The Supreme Court ruled in that case that Susette Kelo’s little pink house and the homes of her neighbors could be taken by the government and given over to a private developer based on the mere prospect that the new use for her property could generate more taxes or jobs.   The authors intend to discuss their new book as well as the experience of fighting the city’s redevelopment plan all the way to the Supreme Court. 
Also attending will be Nick Sprayregen , owner of Tuck-It-Away Self Storage, who is currently litigating a related issue in New York City and Norman Siegel , former Executive Director of the New York ACLU and Mr. Sprayregen ’s attorney.

WJWH L107

Tuesday, January 27 at 12:10

General Meeting

JG 105

Thursday, Jan 22 at 12:10 pm

A Judge in Full: Personality and Jurisprudence

Featuring Judge Alex Kozinski and David Lat

Judge Alex Kozinksi is the Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  David Lat works for Breaking Media where he is responsible for their network of blogs, and he previously worked as a law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

JG 106

Fall 2008

Monday, Nov. 24 at 6:45
Financial Crisis: A Business Failure to a Government Failure?
A lecture by Judge Posner
JG 101

Wednesday, November 12: Quizzo

A trivia event co-sponsored by ACS.

Tuesday, November 11:  "Hear It From the Judge Herself: How Do You Strengthen Your Clerkship Application?"

A speech featuring Judge Loretta Preska, Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Tuesday, October 28: "Judicial Restraint: What is it, where does it come from, and what's so good about it?"
A speech featuring Edith Jones, Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit

Wednesday, October 22nd: "Will Review Documents for Food: Law and the Economy"
A speech by David Lat of Above The Law

"An Inside View of the Election from a Media Perspective"
A discussion with Joe Scarborough (the host of Morning Joe on MSNBC) and Mika Brzezinski

Tuesday, October 14: "Labor and the Economy: The Employee Free Choice Act"
A debate featuring Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and Mitchell Rubenstein, Senior Counsel for the New York State United Teachers

Tuesday, October 7th: "Maintaining Property Rights within the Context of Environmental Protection"
A debate featuring Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute and Doug Kendall of the Community Rights Council

Monday, October 6th: "Packing Heat: The Individual Right of the Second Amendment"

A debate featuring Alan Gura (Heller lead counsel) and Carl Bogus of Roger William School of Law

Wednesday, September 24: "McCain or Obama: The Election and Its Implications for the Courts"
A debate featuring Ilya Shapiro (Cato Institute, Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review) and Jeh Johnson (CLS '82, Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP)

Tuesday, September 16: Clark Neily (Institute for Justice), "The Rational Basis Test is a Big Fat Fraud"

Thursday, September 11: General Meeting and 1L Elections

Thursday, September 4: John McCain's Acceptance Speech