The Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Federalist Society - Grand Rapids is a Constitutionally Originalist student scholarly organization.
The purpose of this society is to foster critical thought and debate about the application of constitutionally originalist principles to the law. This society embraces the principle that the state exists to preserve freedom and that the separation of governmental powers is central to the integrity of the republic of laws under the United States Constitution. This society endorses the idea that the
12/20/2018
2019 FEDERALIST SOCIETY STUDENT SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
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03/17/2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2mID9V_PKw
A Conversation with Justice Thomas - Hon. Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States - Prof. Jennifer Mascott, Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Director of th...
03/16/2018
03/15/2018
Register to the meetup if attending. Should be an awesome event!
https://www.meetup.com/Grand-Rapids-Blockchain/events/248744581/?_cookie-check=S0nLc3XXH7L9quAZ #
The Legal Issues (on,around,with,in and above) Blockchain Technology Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 6:00 PM: The blockchain is a highly valuable, innovative technology that continues to infiltrate a variety of aspects of everyday life. Interestingly, blockchain technology invokes
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03/01/2018
The Free Speech Vernacular: Conceptual Confusions in the Way We Speak about Speech [UT Austin] Tara Smith, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, will discuss several conceptual issues in how we talk about free speech. Hosted by ...
03/01/2018
The bake sale was a success, future events to come.
01/10/2018
This would be awesome to attend.
12/14/2017
Hot topic right now, worth checking out the arguments.
Recent Developments in Corporate Mergers In October of 2016, AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Inc. announced plans to merge, in one of the biggest corporate mergers in U.S. history. The proposed deal was t...
![General Reform Ideas and Pending Legislation [Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) Conference]](https://img5.schoolandcollegelistings.com/548/884/151485185488847.jpg)
12/06/2017
General Reform Ideas and Pending Legislation [Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) Conference] Multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) accounts for nearly half of all civil cases in federal courts. Although MDLs were designed to be efficient mechanisms for “c...
12/06/2017
Race and S*x: Prime Movers of the Expansion of the Administrative State? Advocates of limited government are sometimes accused of being blind to issues of race and s*x. Here's one way in which that might be true: Over the last few...
![Carpenter v. United States [SCOTUSbrief]](https://img5.schoolandcollegelistings.com/215/555/151484732155559.jpg)
12/06/2017
Carpenter v. United States [SCOTUSbrief] Does the Fourth Amendment allow for a warrantless search and seizure of cellphone location data by the police? Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow in constitutional ...
![Christie v. NCAA [SCOTUSbrief]](https://img5.schoolandcollegelistings.com/215/557/151484582155574.jpg)
12/06/2017
Christie v. NCAA [SCOTUSbrief] Does a federal law against sports betting prohibit the state of New Jersey from legalizing it? Damon Root, Senior Editor at Reason magazine, explains the iss...
