Was Trump v. Slaughter Rightly Decided? | Sai Prakash, Victoria Nourse & Judge Jennifer Mascott
Professors Sai Prakash and Victoria Nourse join Judge Jennifer Mascott to debate Trump v. Slaughter and one of the central questions of modern separation-of-powers law: how much control does the President have over executive-branch officers? Prakash defends the Court’s decision, arguing that the Article II Vesting Clause gives the President constitutional authority to supervise and remove officers who exercise executive power, and that Congress lacks authority to strip that power away. Drawin...
27 Oct 2026
War, Pirates, and the True Origins of Mootness Doctrine | Scott MacGuidwin
Scott MacGuidwin, Non-Resident Fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, joins the Georgetown Law Federalist Society to challenge the conventional historical account of mootness doctrine. Tracing the doctrine from seventeenth-century England through the Founding and early American practice, MacGuidwin argues that the traditional judicial concern was not with mootness as such, but with judges prejudging disputes before a concrete case was properly before them. He examines episodes invo...
21 Oct 2026
The Major Questions Doctrine Is Consistent with Textualism | Chad Squitieri & Ilya Somin
Professors Ilya Somin and Chad Squitieri debate whether the Supreme Court’s Major Questions Doctrine can be reconciled with textualism in the latest installment of the Georgetown Law Federalist Society’s Daniel Webster Debate Series. Somin defends the doctrine as both an ordinary tool of textual interpretation and an important safeguard against executive assertions of sweeping power without clear congressional authorization. Drawing on recent disputes involving tariffs, student-loan forgivene...
14 Oct 2026
St. Mary Parish v. Roy: Free Exercise and Anti-Discrimination Pledges | Stephanie Barclay, Marty Lederman & Judge Daniel Domenico
Professor Stephanie Barclay and Professor Marty Lederman join Chief Judge Daniel Domenico of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado for a debate over St. Mary Parish v. Roy and the future of the Free Exercise Clause. The case asks whether Catholic preschools participating in Colorado’s universal preschool program are constitutionally entitled to an exemption from a requirement that participating schools agree not to discriminate on the basis of, among other things, sexual orient...
13 Oct 2026
Free Speech in the Digital Age: Social Media and the First Amendment | Judge Josh Divine
U.S. District Judge Josh Divine joins the Georgetown Law Federalist Society to discuss how the First Amendment applies to social media platforms and the rapidly evolving law governing online speech. Judge Divine traces the modern content-moderation debate from accusations of political bias by major technology companies through the state laws challenged in NetChoice. He examines the competing First Amendment theories adopted by the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, the Supreme Court’s treatment of ...
6 Oct 2026
Having the Government as a Client | William K. Lane III
William K. Lane III, General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, joins the Georgetown Law Federalist Society to discuss what it means to serve as a lawyer for the federal government. Lane reflects on how his military service shaped his approach to leadership, explains who the “client” is for a government lawyer, and discusses the challenge of advising policymakers without becoming a policymaker himself. He also describes coordinating with the Department of Justice, the JAG Corps, the ...
24 Sept 2026
Does AI Replace Corpus Linguistics? | Randy Barnett, Jack Kieffaber & James Heilpern
As artificial intelligence transforms legal research, could it also replace corpus linguistics as a tool for interpreting statutes and the Constitution? In the latest installment of the Georgetown Law Federalist Society's Daniel Webster Debate Series, Jack Kieffaber, founder of Garner Ink, and James Heilpern, counsel at Schaerr Jaffe, debate the future of legal interpretation, moderated by Georgetown Law Professor Randy E. Barnett. The discussion explores the use of large language models in t...
23 Sept 2026
The Name Behind the Case: Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti
Join the Georgetown Law Federalist Society for The Name Behind the Case: A Fireside Chat with Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. Recorded live at Georgetown Law on September 22, 2026. The event includes remarks from Attorney General Skrmetti and an audience Q&A.
15 Apr 2026
Jamil Jaffer: Anthropic v. DOW
Recorded at Georgetown Law Federalist Society on March 31, Jamil N. Jaffer—Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School, former Chief Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former senior national security official at the Department of Justice and the White House—dives into the fast-moving intersection of artificial intelligence and national security. Drawing on his experience overseeing intelligence programs, dra...
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