Federalist Society Symposium

The website for the Federalist Society’s 2006 Student Symposium is up and running. This year’s event is focused on international law. According to the website:

International law has dominated the Supreme Court’s docket in recent terms in two distinct, but related, forms. The first involves issues that are inherently international in nature—for example the power of the Executive, and protections offered by the Constitution in the war on terror—where the Court has always struggled with its role in the international realm. The second involves the increasing frequency with which the Court involves international law in its decisions in ways it historically has not. The use of foreign sources in the interpretation of the Constitution is the most pressing concern voiced by conservative jurists, and continues to provoke controversy when it is employed to defend reversal of settled U.S. law. This year’s symposium will address the various applications of both of these concerns.