"Marital Discord at the Court"

with

Ramesh Ponnuru
National Review senior editor, Bloomberg View columnist, AEI Visiting Fellow

Mr. Ponnuru will explore how same-sex marriage has moved so rapidly from inconceivability to seeming inevitability. He will examine both political and jurisprudential factors, and he will discuss the recent U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments.

Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review, a columnist for Bloomberg View, and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Ponnuru grew up in Kansas City and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton’s history department. Ponnuru has published articles in numerous newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Newsday, and the New York Post. He has also written for First Things, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reason, and other publications. He has appeared on numerous television news programs. He is the author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life. He is also the author of the monograph The Mystery of Japanese Growth (American Enterprise Institute/Centre for Policy Studies).

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Tuesday April 30, 2013 • 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP • 1111 Louisiana St, 44th Floor

$30 paid online in advance

$20 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Friday, April 26
Please click on the following link to RSVP and pay in advance:
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=235860
Email RSVPs also accepted at houston.fed.soc@swbell.net.
CLE credit requested. Seating is limited.

"Kill-Lists and Accountability"

with

Professor Gregory McNeal
Pepperdine University School of Law

Professor Krauss earned his B.A. cum laude from Carleton University, his LL.B. summa cum laude from the Université de Sherbrooke, and his LL.M. from Yale Law School, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He was Columbia University's Law and Economics Fellow in 1981. He has been teaching at George Mason since 1987 and also has taught at the law schools of Seattle University, the University of Toronto, and the Université de Sherbrooke. Professor Krauss teaches Torts, Legal Ethics and Jurisprudence, and h co-authored the first two editions of Legal Ethics in a Nutshell 2003 and 2006. Professor Krauss was on leave in 2010, spending this period as a Visiting Professor of Tort Theory at the University of Haifa Law School, at Princeton University as a Madison Fellow, and as a Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris/Sorbonne/Panthéon.

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Thursday March 28, 2013 • 7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP • 1111 Louisiana St, 44th Floor

$10 paid online in advance

$5 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Tuesday, March 26
Please click on the following link to RSVP and pay in advance:
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=235440
Email RSVPs also accepted at houston.fed.soc@swbell.net
One hour of CLE credit has been requested.
Seating is limited.

Was Atticus Finch the Lawyer We Should All Strive to Be?

with

Professor Michael Krauss

George Mason University School of Law

Professor Krauss earned his B.A. cum laude from Carleton University, his LL.B. summa cum laude from the Université de Sherbrooke, and his LL.M. from Yale Law School, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He was Columbia University's Law and Economics Fellow in 1981. He has been teaching at George Mason since 1987 and also has taught at the law schools of Seattle University, the University of Toronto, and the Université de Sherbrooke. Professor Krauss teaches Torts, Legal Ethics and Jurisprudence, and h co-authored the first two editions of Legal Ethics in a Nutshell 2003 and 2006. Professor Krauss was on leave in 2010, spending this period as a Visiting Professor of Tort Theory at the University of Haifa Law School, at Princeton University as a Madison Fellow, and as a Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris/Sorbonne/Panthéon.

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Friday February 1, 2013 • 7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Fel LLP • 1111 Louisiana St, 44th Floor

$10 paid online in advance

$5 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Wednesday, January 30
Please click on the following link to RSVP and pay in advance:
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=234888
Email RSVPs also accepted at houston.fed.soc@swbell.net
One hour of CLE Ethics Credit has been approved.
Seating is limited.

An Overview of Fisher v. University of Texas

with

Thomas R. McCarthy

Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in Fisher v. University of Texas this week, October 10, 2012. The case, brought by undergraduate Abigail Fisher in 2008, asks that the court either declare the admissions policy of the University inconsistent with, or entirely overrule Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that race could play a limited role in the admissions policies of universities. An overruling of Grutter could end affirmative action policies in admissions at U.S. public universities.

Thomas R. McCarthy, a partner at Wiley Rein LLP in Washington DC, represents the plaintiff Abigail Fisher in this pending case. In addition to his extensive federal trial and appellate practice, he is co-director of the Supreme Court Clinic at the George Mason University School of Law. Mr. McCarthy previously served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable David B. Sentelle, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2002-2003)

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Thursday October 18, 2012 • 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

The Houston Club • 811 Rusk

$35 paid online in advance

$20 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 17
Please click on the following link to RSVP and pay in advance:
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=233695
Email RSVPs also accepted at houston.fed.soc@swbell.net.
CLE Credit Requested. Seating is limited.

United States Supreme Court Term in Review

Please join the Houston Lawyers Chapter of The Federalist Society for our annual review of key cases decided during the United States Supreme Court's recently concluded 2011/2012 Term. This year's panelists include:

The Honorable Catharina Haynes

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

The Honorable Dan Hinde

269th Judicial District Court, Harris County Texas

Professor Ernest A. Young

Duke University Law School

Evan Young

Baker Botts

The panelists will review these cases, among others: H.H.S. v. Florida (Obamacare), Arizona v. U.S. (Arizona immigration law), Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC (church's right to fire ministers), U.S. v. Jones (GPS tracking by police), Perry v. Perez (Texas redistricting), FCC v. Fox (TX indecency), and Mayo v. Prometheus Labs (patentability of diagnostic processes)

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Registration and Buffet Begins at 6:00 p.m.

Program Begins at 6:30 p.m.

The Black Labrador, 4100 Montrose Boulevard (at Richmond)

$30 paid online in advance
$20 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Sunday, July 8.

Parking is available in the garage behind the Restaurant

Please click the link below to RSVP and pay in advance.
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=231474

Email RSVPs also accepted at

houston.fed.soc@swbell.net.

CLE Credit Requested. Seating is limited.