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The Federalist Society - Rutgers Law School -
Newark Chapter
Center for Law and Justice
123 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
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.
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. 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. In
working to achieve these goals, the Society has created a conservative
intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community.
OFFICERS
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