Past Events
Here you will find a listing of past events as well as podcasts of those events when available.
Annual Western Chapters Conference
State Judiciaries and the Popular Will: What Deference do Judges Owe to the People?
When: January 30, 2010, 10AM-6PM
Where: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California
Panels Include
Should Judges Consider the Economic Climate in Deciding Business Cases?
Screening: Ronald Reagan's 1976 Convention Address and Comments
Should Judges Defer to Popular Referenda in the Same Way They Do to Legislative Decisions?
Debate: Should States Have Supermajority Requirements to Raise Taxes and Pass a Budget?
Featuring...
- The Honorable Carlos T. Bea, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
- Keynote Speaker: Mr. Steven Hayward, Author, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989
- The Honorable Sandra Ikuta, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
- The Honorable Kenneth W. Starr, Pepperdine University School of Law
- The Honorable Edwin Meese, The Heritage Foundation and Former United States Attorney General
- Professor Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law
- And Many More!
The Merits of Continued Drug Prohibition
Listen to the Podcast HERE
Speakers:
The Honorable Steve Cooley holds a historic third term as Los Angeles County District Attorney. A 36 year veteran prosecutor, Mr. Cooley has guided the LACDA to its status as the premier local prosecution agency in the nation, and the largest.
The Honorable Jim Gray, author of Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It is a retired Orange County Trial Judge and a former Republican and Libertarian candidate for US Senate.
Moderator: Manuel Klausner, Esq., co-founder of the Reason Foundation
Date: January 19, 2010, 12:00 Noon
Place: The California Club, 538 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.
The Future of Big Law
Speakers:
David Lat, is the Founder and Managing Editor of Above the Law, a blog about law firms and the legal profession.
Elie Mystal, is the Editor-in-Chief of Above the Law.
Date: January 7, 2010, 12:00 Noon
Place: UCLA Law School Campus, 71 Dodd Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Room: TBA
Lunch will be served.
…followed by…
Reception at Corkbar
What: Meet and mingle with the Editors of Above the Law and other lawyers from the area during this informal networking opportunity.
Date: January 7, 2010, 6 – 8 p.m.
Place: Corkbar, 403 West 12th Street, Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90015
The Investigation and Prosecution of Bush Administration Officials
Listen to the podcase HERE
Speakers:
Dean John Eastman, Chapman University School of Law
Stephen Rohde, Chair, ACLU Foundation of Southern California
Moderator: Manuel S. Klausner, General Counsel, Individual Rights Foundation
Date: December 16, 2009, 12:00 Noon
Place: The California Club, 538 S Flower St, Los Angeles
Film Piracy on the High(-Speed Internet) Seas
co-sponsored with the Libertarian Law Council
Speakers:
John Malcolm, Former Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the Motion Picture Association of America
Joshua Wattles, Advisor in Chief to deviantART and of Counsel to the
Vick Law Group
Moderator:
David Nimmer, Irell & Manella
Date:
December 7, 2009, 12:00 Noon
Place:
Irell & Manella LLP, 1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 900
Los Angeles, CA
The Present and Future of the Roberts Court
Listen to Podcast HERE
Who:
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Dean Kenneth W. Starr
Pepperdine University School of Law
Moderated by Judge Sandra Ikuta
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
When: August 26, 12:00 Noon
Where: The California Club, 538 S. Flower St, Los Angeles
Judge Ikuta, Dean Chemerinsky and Dean Starr
Listen to the Podcast HERE
Who:
Robert Alt, Senior Legal Fellow and Deputy Director,
The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
Horace Cooper, Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Liberty
Date: June 24, 2009, 12:00 Noon
Place: Omni Hotel, 251 South Olive Street, Los Angeles
California’s Anti-SLAPP Statute:
A Cure for Frivolous Lawsuits, or a Mixed Blessing?
co-sponsored by the Libertarian Law Council
Speakers: Mark Goldowitz, The Anti-SLAPP Project
Rex Heinke, Akin Gump
Jeremy Rosen, Horvitz & Levy
Date: May 20, 2009, 12:00 Noon
Place: Omni Hotel, 251 South Olive Street
The Roberts Court as a Business Court
Listen to the Podcast HERE
Speaker: Hon. Paul D. Clement
Date: April 16, 2009, 12:00 Noon
Place: Omni Hotel, 251 S. Olive, Los Angeles
Paul D. Clement is a partner at King & Spalding and head of the firm’s national appellate practice. He served as the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States and has argued 49 cases before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Clement has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Following his graduation from Harvard Law School, Mr. Clement clerked for Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who's Killing the American Dream?
Who: Clark Neily of the Institute for Justice
What: A discussion of basic rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment
When: March 11, at 6:30-8:30 PM
Where: UCLA School of Law Faculty Center
Should Unions Have More Power? The Check Card Debate and Compulsory Arbitration
Listen to the Podcast HERE
Speakers:
Richard Epstein, Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Anthony Segall, Partner, Rothner, Segall, Greenstone & Leheny
Co-Sponsored by the Libertarian Law Council
Date: February 24, 2009, 7:30 a.m.
Place: Littler Mendelson,
2049 Century Park E. #500
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Third Annual Western Conference
Simi Valley, CA - January 24, 2009
The Federalist Society presents its Third Annual Western Conference at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on January 24, 2009. The theme this year is "Federal Sovereignty, State Sovereignty, and the Sovereignty of 562 Native American Tribes: A Match Made in Heaven or Somewhere Less Pleasant?" [Register now!]
A Judge in Full: Personality and Jurisprudence
Listen to the Podcast HERE
Speakers:
Hon. Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, 9th Circuit
David Lat, Founder, Above the Law
Place: Omni Hotel
251 South Olive Street
Downtown, Los Angeles
Date: Tuesday, January 13th at 12:00 p.m.
Gun Policy Debate (On the Westside)
Listen to the podcast of the event here.
Co-Sponsored by the Libertarian Law Council.
Date: December 5, 2008, 12:00 Noon
A Debate on Gun Policy after District of Columbia v. Heller
Speakers: Mr. Charlie Blek, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Prof. Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law School
Moderator: Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Legal Policies of the Presidential Candidates
Co-Sponsored by the Libertarian Law Council.
On Wednesday, October 22 at 12 pm at the Omni Hotel downtown, Doug Bandow (Barr Campaign) Jeffrey Bleich (Obama Campaign) and Nicholas Hariton (McCain Campaign) discussed the candidates' legal policies.
President Bush to Address Federalist Society: Live Webcast Oct. 6 at 12:00 pm.
On Monday, October 6 at 12 pm, President Bush addressed the Cincinatti Lawyers Chapter's conference on "The Presidency and the Courts." The President's speech was entitled "Legacy of the Judiciary," and is available at http://fedsoc.ashbrook.org/.
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