The QUSL Federalist Society Event Recordings Podcast brings you live recordings of QUSL Federalist Society events featuring legal experts.
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The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. This podcast feed contains audio files of Federalist Society panel discussions ...
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On Wednesday, March 27, 2019, the Quinnipiac University School of Law Federalist Society hosted Attorney Tyson Langhofer of the Alliance Defending Freedom to discuss the importance of religious liberty. Attorney Langhofer was joined by QUSL Professor Kevin Barry. Attorney Langhofer's talk was attended by QUSL students and faculty, members of the pu…
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On Thursday, March 7, 2019, the Quinnipiac University School of Law Federalist Society hosted the Honorable Peter Kirsanow of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to discuss affirmative action. This event also featured brief remarks from QUSL Assistant Dean Robert Farrell. Mr. Kirsanow's talk was attended by QUSL students and faculty, members of the pu…
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On Tuesday, November 13th, 2018, the Quinnipiac University School of Law Federalist Society hosted Professor Teresa Collett, of the University of St. Thomas School of Law, as she delivered her talk "The Feminist Case Against Abortion." QUSL Dean Jennifer Brown and Professors Stephen Gilles and Linda Meyer also participated in the discussion. Their …
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On Thursday, October 4th, 2018, the Quinnipiac University School of Law Federalist Society hosted Attorney Clark Neily of the Cato Institute to discuss plea bargaining and its effect on the criminal jury trial. This event also featured brief remarks from QUSL Professors Linda Meyer and Stephen Gilles. Mr. Neily's talk was attended by QUSL students …
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On Thursday, September 6th, 2018, the Quinnipiac University School of Law Federalist Society hosted Alicia Hilton, professor at John Marshall School of Law and a former FBI special agent, to discuss marijuana legalization and its implications for federalism. Professor Hilton was joined by Jennifer Herbst, a professor at Quinnipiac University School…
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Regulatory Transparency Project Every state has laws or regulations that require individuals seeking to offer a certain service to the public first to obtain approval from the state before they may operate in the state. Recent years have seen a significant proliferation of such laws, with less than 5% of jobs in the American economy requiring a lic…
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Washington, DC Lawyers Chapter On July 13, 2017, Miguel Estrada of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP delivered the Annual Supreme Court Round Up at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Featuring: Mr. Miguel Estrada, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Introduction: Mr. Douglas R. Cox, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP National Press Club Washington, DC…
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Article I Initiative What kind of war power does the Constitution grant the President and Congress? What limitations apply to each branch concerning the power to declare war and the use of military force? Over time, how has the Framers’ understanding been followed and in what ways has it been ignored? Do the founding principles regarding these topi…
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Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group In this sequel to our panel last year on “The Limits of Federal Criminal Law,” we ask a distinguished panel to discuss how enforcement policy is evolving under Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Is the Yates Memo targeting individual employees of a corporation still operative? Do the speeches of the new Attorney…
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Corporations, Securities & Antitrust Practice Group Antitrust policy during much of the Obama Administration was a continuation of the Bush Administration’s minimal involvement in the market. However, at the end of President Obama’s term, there was a significant pivot to investigations and blocks of high profile mergers such as Halliburton-Baker Hu…
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Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference The Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference will examine the changing and often convoluted relationship between the legislative and the executive branches in the United States government. The Conference began with an opening address by Senator Mike Lee and concluded with this closing address b…
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Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference The Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference will examine the changing and often convoluted relationship between the legislative and the executive branches in the United States government. The Conference began with this opening address by Senator Mike Lee and concluded with a closing address by…
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Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference The Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference will examine the changing and often convoluted relationship between the legislative and the executive branches in the United States government. The Conference began with an opening address by Senator Mike Lee and concluded with a closing address by O…
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Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference The Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference will examine the changing and often convoluted relationship between the legislative and the executive branches in the United States government. The Conference began with an opening address by Senator Mike Lee and concluded with a closing address by O…
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Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference The Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference will examine the changing and often convoluted relationship between the legislative and the executive branches in the United States government. The Conference began with an opening address by Senator Mike Lee and concluded with a closing address by O…
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Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference The Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference will examine the changing and often convoluted relationship between the legislative and the executive branches in the United States government. The Conference began with an opening address by Senator Mike Lee and concluded with a closing address by O…
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Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference The Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference will examine the changing and often convoluted relationship between the legislative and the executive branches in the United States government. The Conference began with an opening address by Senator Mike Lee and concluded with a closing address by O…
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Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference The Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference will examine the changing and often convoluted relationship between the legislative and the executive branches in the United States government. The Conference began with an opening address by Senator Mike Lee and concluded with a closing address by O…
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Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference The Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference will examine the changing and often convoluted relationship between the legislative and the executive branches in the United States government. The Conference began with this opening address by Senator Mike Lee and concluded with a closing address by…
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Inaugural Ohio Chapters Conference State courts are often faced with cases raising arguments under state and federal law. If there are similar provisions in both the United States Constitution and the Ohio Constitution, how should judges interpret these provisions? Must they be interpreted in the same way? If not, then what is needed to justify a c…
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Inaugural Ohio Chapters Conference In our nation's federalist system, the federal government's powers are limited to those that have been prescribed by the U.S Constitution, with additional powers reserved to the states. In recent years, state attorneys general have served as a robust check on executive branch overreach, increasingly using litigati…
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Inaugural Ohio Chapters Conference The keynote address at the Inaugural Ohio Chapters Conference was delivered at the Athletic Club of Columbus on Friday, March 31, 2017, by J.D. Vance, Author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. He was introduced by Jedidiah Bressman, President of the Ohio State University Student Chapte…
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Inaugural Ohio Chapters Conference Article V of the United States Constitution permits state legislatures to call a constitutional convention to consider amendments to the Constitution. State legislatures have never utilized this procedure. Calls for an Article V Convention have increased in recent years in response to the growth of the federal gov…
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Panel Discussion of DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington by Prof. David Schoenbrod 4-19-2017
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Article I Initiative In Professor David Schoenbrod’s new book DC CONFIDENTIAL: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington, he asserts that in the 1960s, elected officials in Congress and the White House figured out a system for enacting laws and spending programs—one that lets them take the credit for promising good news while avoiding the blame for prod…
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State 'Around Market' Action and FERC: The End of Competitive Wholesale Electric Markets? 4-18-2017
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Telecommunications & Electronic Media and Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Groups For the past two decades, the U.S. has experimented with “market”-based competitive wholesale electric markets. Through FERC-superintended regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs), large regions of the country have…
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Administrative Law & Regulation and Telecommunications & Electronic Media Practice Groups The Federalist Society hosted a lunch and discussion on the role of Economic Liberty in the United States on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Today, many job-seeking Americans and companies face significant government barriers that restrict their full participation in…
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The Role of Economic Liberty in the United States - Senator Ted Cruz Keynote Address 3-28-2017
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Administrative Law & Regulation and Telecommunications & Electronic Media Practice Groups Senator Ted Cruz gives the keynote address to open the Federalist Society's lunch and discussion on the role of Economic Liberty in the United States on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Featuring: Hon. R. Ted Cruz, United States Senator, Texas Introduction: Mr. Dean A…
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2017 National Student Symposium Professor Richard Epstein delivered the keynote address titled "A common lawyer looks at the constitutional protection for freedom of speech" during the 2017 National Student Symposium at Columbia Law School on Saturday, March 4, 2017. The theme of this talk is what happens if we think about freedom of speech as an i…
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2017 National Student Symposium Universities have long been thought of, and cherished, as places for the free exchange of ideas. This idea has, however, come under pressure. Student groups have now routinely exercised pressure to keep people who they disagree with off campus. And safe spaces and trigger warnings—which limit speech that some have de…
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2017 National Student Symposium In September, 2016, the United States Commission on Civil Rights released a report entitled Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principles with Civil Liberties. In the report, the USCCR concluded that religious exercise is in tension with individual rights of certain subsections of the American popula…
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2017 National Student Symposium In August 2016, the American Bar Association (ABA) added new anti-discrimination guidelines for lawyers to its Model Rules of Professional Conduct through section 8.4. This section now binds lawyers to adhere to particular speech codes in the many states that have adopted it. The provision labels engagement “in condu…
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2017 National Student Symposium Congress' passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 did not end the debate on campaign finance. Instead, it arguably created more legal questions than it did answers. The Act's passage quickly unleashed subsequent litigation, resulting in a number of Supreme Court decisions directly related to the BCRA an…
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2017 National Student Symposium The Internet has made information not only much more accessible, it has allowed almost anyone to be a provider of such information. This has not been without consequence: the refusal to take down an obscene video led to an eye-popping $140 million jury verdict and the subsequent collapse of Gawker Media. Personal e-m…
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These remarks were given by the Honorable Michael R. Pence, Vice President of the United States on February 4, 2017, at Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Vice President Pence was welcomed by Eugene B. Meyer, President of the Federalist Society. Prayer was led by Reverend Paul Rourke, SJ, Chaplain of the Georgetown University Law Center. …
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2017 Annual Florida Chapters Conference This panel, Combating Federal Overreach, was held on February 4, 2017, at the 2017 Florida Chapters Conference at Disney's BoardWalk Inn at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Combating Federal Overreach 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Amit Agarwal, Solicitor General, Florida Andrew Brasher, Sol…
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2017 Annual Florida Chapters Conference This address by the Honorable Mike Lee (U.S. Senator, Utah) was given on February 4, 2017, at the 2017 Florida Chapters Conference at Disney's BoardWalk Inn at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Luncheon Address 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m. Hon. Mike Lee, U.S Senator, Utah Introduction: Jes…
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2017 Annual Florida Chapters Conference This panel, Government Ethics & Corruption, was held on February 4, 2017, at the 2017 Florida Chapters Conference at Disney's BoardWalk Inn at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Government Ethics and Corruption 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 Noon Mr. Nick Cox, Florida Statewide Prosecutor Renee F…
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2017 Annual Florida Chapters Conference This panel, Florida and the Future of Trade Policy, was held on February 4, 2017, at the 2017 Florida Chapters Conference at Disney's BoardWalk Inn at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Florida and the Future of Trade Policy 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Alice Ancona, Director of Global Outr…
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2017 Annual Florida Chapters Conference This address by the Honorable Marco Rubio (U.S. Senator, Florida) was given on February 3, 2017, at the 2017 Florida Chapters Conference at Disney's BoardWalk Inn at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Address 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Hon. Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator, Florida Introduction: …
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2017 Annual Florida Chapters Conference This panel, The Legacy of Justice Scalia, was held on February 3, 2017, at the 2017 Florida Chapters Conference at Disney's BoardWalk Inn at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The Legacy of Justice Scalia 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Prof. John Baker, Professor Emeritus, LSU Law Center Rache…
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2017 Annual Western Chapters Conference The Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Pauley. The case questions whether the exclusion of churches from an otherwise neutral and secular aid program violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of Free Exercise of Religion and the Fourteenth Amendment’…
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2017 Annual Western Chapters Conference What is the proper role of the State judiciary when considering questions of federal law? If there are independent and adequate federal and State grounds, on which basis should a state supreme court decide a case? This panel was part of the 2017 Annual Western Chapters Conference at The Ronald Reagan Presiden…
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2017 Annual Western Chapters Conference The past forty years have seen a surge in efforts to litigate under state constitutional provisions furthering individual liberties. Panelists could look to numerous examples of differences between the state and federal constitutions (examples include criminal justice, property rights, same-sex marriage, educ…
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2017 Annual Western Chapters Conference In 1977, the publication of Justice William Brennan’s article, “State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights,” provoked many litigators to look to the state courts to enhance individual liberties beyond the scope of the federal constitution. Panelists will discuss the legacy of Justice Brennan’…
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Article I Initiative Congressman Goodlatte discusses the House Judiciary Committee's agenda for the 115th Congress. He delivered these remarks on Wednesday, February 1, 2017, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Featuring: Hon. Bob Goodlatte, United States House of Representatives Introduction: Hon. C. Boyden Gray, Founding Partner, Boyden…
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International Law in the Trump Era: Expectations, Hopes, and Fears The Federalist Society's Practice Group and Student Divisions and the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) are pleased to present a half-day conference on the future of international and national law under freshly inaugurated President Trump. This panel will …
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International Law in the Trump Era: Expectations, Hopes, and Fears The Federalist Society's Practice Group and Student Divisions and the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) are pleased to present a half-day conference on the future of international and national law under freshly inaugurated President Trump. This second pane…
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International Law in the Trump Era: Expectations, Hopes, and Fears The Federalist Society's Practice Group and Student Divisions and the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) are pleased to present a half-day conference on the future of international and national law under freshly inaugurated President Trump. This first panel…
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“Dear Colleague”/Guidance Letters, Consent Decrees, and other administrative law innovations - 1-6-2017
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19th Annual Faculty Conference This panel will discuss administrative agencies’ increasing use of devices such as guidance letters, consent decrees, and Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (instead of final rules or adjudications issued with APA procedural protections) as mechanisms for setting major policies that may be effectively binding on private p…
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19th Annual Faculty Conference December 2015 marked 150 years since the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment—an occasion of singular moral, political, and legal importance in American history. This panel reflects on that past with an eye toward the future. While the Amendment plainly outlaws slavery itself, does it go beyond that, or authorize …
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