The 17th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference will be held on January 3-4, 2015 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Continental Breakfast8:30 - 9:30 am
Palladian Ballroom, Lobby Level, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Panel 3: The Administrative State: Within the Bounds of Law?9:30 - 11:15 am
Palladian Ballroom, Lobby Level, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Michael Greve, George Mason University School of Law
Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law School
Kristin Hickman, University of Minnesota Law School
Richard Pierce, The George Washington University School of Law
Moderator: John McGinnis, Northwestern University School of Law
7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress 2-A11:30 am-1:00 pm
Palladian Ballroom, Lobby Level, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Josh Blackman, South Texas College of Law, "Gridlock and Executive Power"
Tara Helfman, Syracuse University College of Law, "The Dread Pirate Who? Challenges in Interpreting Treaty and Customary International Law in the United States"
Anthony Johnstone, University of Montana School of Law, "The Federalist Safeguards of Politics"
Christina Mulligan, Brooklyn Law School, "Founding Era Translations of the U.S. Constitution"
Jeffrey Pojanowski, Notre Dame Law School, "Reading Statutes in the Common Law Tradition"
Stephen Sachs, Duke University School of Law and Will Baude, University of Chicago Law School, "The Law
of Interpretation"
Ilan Wurman, Winston & Strawn, "Law Historians' Fallacies"
7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress 2-B
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Empire Ballroom, Lower Level, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Vincent Buccola, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, "Municipal Bankruptcy as Quasi-Constitution"
James Chen, Michigan State University College of Law, "Legal Signal Processing"
Catherine Christopher, Texas Tech University School of Law, "Mobile Banking: the Answer for the Unbanked in America?"
Andy Grewal, University of Iowa College of Law, "Does the Lenity Principle Handcuff the Treasury?"
Marah Stith McLeod, Columbia Law School, "Does the Death Penalty Require Death Row?"
Mark Moller, DePaul University College of Law, "Agenda Setting and the Class Action"
Michael O'Shea, Oklahoma City University School of Law, "The Confrontational Constitution: Justice Scalia and the Bill of Rights"