University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Are the Federalist Papers relevant in 1992? The Federalist Society’s Eleventh Annual National Symposium on Law and Public Policy: “The Legacy of the Federalist Papers” The Legacy of the Federalist Papers The Federalist has been called the most important work in political science that has ever been written. This symposium investigated the continued relevance to the American legal community of this classical statement of American political theory. The symposium center'd around four panel discussions and a debate. The presenters were pressed to answer both how The Federalist should be interpreted to apply to modern problems, and whether such interpretation is a relevant endeavor. Schedule of Events Friday. February 28. 1992 B. Idcn Payne ITtcatre: Introduction and Opening Remarks Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips. Supreme Court of Texas Panel One Philosophical Foundations of The Federalist: The Nature of I .aw and the Nature of Man Moderator: Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips. Supreme Court of Texas Panelists: Prof. Richard A. Epstein. University of Chicago Law School: Prof. Michael S. Moore. University of Iowa law School; Prof. Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard law School Saturday. February 29. 1992 Panel Two To Govern and Be (Governed: The Federalist's Vision of Representative Democracy Moderator: Honorable James L. Ryan. Judge. U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Panelists: Dean Jesse H. Choper, University of California at Berkeley School of Law; Honorable Frank Easterbrook, Judge. U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit; Mr. David Epstein. U.S. Department of Defense; Prof. Jonathan R. Macey, Cornel Law School Panel Three Liberty and Constitutional Architecture Moderator: Honorable James L. Buck-ley. Judge. U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Panelists: Prof. John S. Baker Jr., Louisiana State University Law Center; Prof. Douglas Laycock. University of Texas School of Law; Prof. Geoffrey P. Miller, University of Chicago Law School Debate The Federalist and the Contemporary Debates on Term Limits Moderator: Honorable Will Garwood, Judge. U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit For: Honorable William Kristol. Chief of StafT. Office of the Vice President Against: Prof. Nelson Polsby, Institute for Governmental Studies. University of California at Berkeley Panel Four The Anti-Federalists after 200 years: Pundits or Prophets? Moderator: The Honorable Edwin Mcese III. 75th U.S. Attorney General and Distinguished Fellow. The Heritage Foundation Panelists: Prof. Akliil R. Amar, Yale Law School: Honorable Charles J. Cooper. Partner, Shaw, Pittman, Potts Trowbridge and former Assistant U.S. Attorney General; Prof. Lino A. Crag-lia. University of Texas School of Law Banquet Awatds Ceremony Law School Atrium 8 — Texas Federalist Society

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New Perspectives on Women and Violence Over 200 people attended “New Perspectives on Women and Violence,’’ the first annual symposium sponsored by Texas Journal of Women and the Imw , in conjunction with 1'hc University of Texas School of Law, on March 6-7, 1992 at the Charles I. Francis Auditorium. Participants included students, attorneys, professors, police officers, and employees and volunteers of women’s shelters, as well as judges, who enthusiastically discussed the problems and solutions to a topic that effects not only women, but society as a whole. Seventeen speakers from all over the country presented papers on such topics as sexual vi- olence, pornography, domestic violence and child abuse. The keynote address was presented by Dr. Ignore Walker, a psychologist recognized world-wide for her research and expert testimony on the subject of the Battered Women’s Syndrome. Other highlights of the symposium included a multi-media presentation by Assistant Professor Mia Carter of the L'T English Department who, while showing the movie Thelma and Louise, discussed society’s response to women committing violence, as well as other aspects of the film. Also, Philosopher Dr. Rosemarie Tong of Davidson College debated Associate Professor of Law Morrison Torrey of DePaul University School of Law-on the first amendment right to pornography versus the potential harm to women by pornography. The Texas Journal of Women and the Law plans to publish the presentations in a symposium issue in the fall of 1992. Texa Journal of Women and the law Sympouum — 7

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