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The Federalist Society
for Law and Public Policy Studies
OUR PURPOSE:
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Law
schools and the legal profession are currently strongly dominated by
a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized
and uniform society. While some members of the academic community
have dissented from these views, by and large they are taught
simultaneously with (and indeed as if they were) the law.
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The
Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of
conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of
the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state
exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental
powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically
the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not
what it should be.
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The
Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and
to further their application through its activities. This entails
reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on
individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law. It also
requires restoring the recognition of the importance of these norms
among lawyers, judges, and law professors.
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In
working to achieve these goals, the Society has created a
conservative and libertarian intellectual network that extends to
all levels of the legal community.
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