Ideas with Consequences – Episode 21 – The Oxford Comment

Ideas with Consequences provides the first comprehensive account of how the Federalist Society has exerted its influence. Drawing from a huge trove of documents, transcripts, and interviews, it explains how the Federalist Society managed to revolutionize the jurisprudence for a wide variety of important legal issues. Moreover, it illustrates how the Federalist Society serves as a credentialing institution for conservative lawyers and judges and legitimizes novel interpretations of the constitution that employ a conservative framework.

Amanda Hollis-Brusky is Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College where she teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Legal Institutions, and American Politics. She has written on the conservative legal movement, the Christian Lawyering movement, Originalism, and Executive power. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Law and Social Inquiry and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society.