Engage Volume 8, Issue 4, October 2007

The latest issue of the Federalist Society's practice groups is now posted online [160 pp. pdf]. In this issue

members and others review the Supreme Court’s last term and recent developments in the federal and state courts, as well as news in the public policy realm. Harry J.F. Korrell, who successfully represented the plaintiffs in the Seattle schools case, provides a recounting of the issues at stake in the headline-making decision. Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity and Wade Henderson of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, in a point-counterpoint, debate the fate of affirmative action hiring practices in the new Court era. Steve Erickson of Yale reviews the Court’s mental health rulings. Professors Josh Wright and Robert Miller consider the Court’s antitrust rulings in light of the larger trend and influence of Chicago School economics. Washington Assistant Attorney General Geoffrey Hymans considers the issues at stake in a recent ban on violent video games. Professor F. Scott Kieff argues that intellectual property rights can help those interested in conservation and world health. And former Assistant Attorney General Jack Park recounts his experience with class actions, and the problem of attorneys’ fees. Also: reviews of Clint Bolick’s The Case for an Activist Judiciary, Louis Seidman’s Silence and Freedom, Michael Ramsey’s The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs, Stuart Taylor’s Until Proven Innocent, and The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration.