The Twenty-Seventh Annual National Federalist Society Student Symposium on Law and Public Policy – 2008 The People & The Courts |
| I. Judicial Interference With Community Values |
| Judicial Review, Local Values, and Pluralism | Richard W. Garnett |
| Counting States | Roderick M. Hills, Jr |
| Voting With Your Feet Is No Substitute for Constitutional Rights | Douglas Laycock |
| Norm Change Or Judicial Decree? The Courts, The Public, and Welfare Reform | Amy L. Wax |
| II. The Merits of Selecting Our Judges |
| The Merits of Merit Selection | Thomas R. Phillips |
| Merit Selection: Choosing Judges Based On Their Politics Under The Veil Of A Disarming Name | Clifford W. Taylor |
| III. Kelo, Grutter, and Popular Responses To Unpopular Decisions |
| Achieving Equal Treatment Through The Ballot Box | Ward Connerly |
| Political Responses To Supreme Court Decisions | Marci A. Hamilton |
| IV. The People’s Common Law: Is Law and Economics Anti-Democratic? |
| Law and Economics: Realism or Democracy? | Henry E. Smith |
| V. An Originalist Judge and the Media |
| An Interpretivist Judge and the Media | Stephen J. Markman |
| Limits Of Interpretivism | Richard Primus |
| A Response To Professor Primus | Stephen J. Markman |
| VI. Tradition and the People’s Constitution |
| Sodomy and Guns: Tradition as Democratic Deliberation and Constitutional Interpretation | William N. Eskridge, Jr |
| ESSAY |
| Tools Against Terror: All of the Above | Michael Chertoff |
| ARTICLES |
| Public Displays of Affection … For God: Religious Moments After McCreary and Van Orden | Edith Brown Clement |
| Manliness and the Constitution | John M. Kang |
| Marketing Pharmaceutical Products in the Twentyfirst Century: An Analysis of the Continued Viability of Traditional Principles of Law in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising | Victor E. Schwartz, Cary Silverman, Michael J. Hulka &Christopher E. Appel |
| Returning to the Pruneyard: The Unconstitutionality of State-Sanctioned Trespass in the Name of Speech | Gregory C. Sisk |
| BOOK REVIEW |
| Lessons From the Rise of Legal Conservatism | Ilya Somin |
| RECENT DEVELOPMENT |
| Inventing the “Right To Vote” in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, 128 S. Ct. 1610 (2008) | |