Monday, August 27, 2012

Welcome Back!

Join us for our Welcome back event!

Also, Check out our new blog: pepperdinelawfedsoc.wordpress.com

Monday, March 26, 2012

Attack of the Drones!

Join FedSoc for a debate today at 12:30 pm in the Appellate Courtroom.  Prof. McNeal and John Radsan will discuss the use of Drones by the U.S.  Lunch will be provided!



Thursday, February 23, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

School Choice Event with Clint Bolick and Professor James

In honor of National School Choice Week, we present: 


Federalist Society

School Choice Event: Do America’s Public Schools 

Make the Grade?

With Clint Bolick and Professor James

Bolick is a co-founder of the Institute for Justice, the director of the Goldwater Institute’s Litigation center, the former director for the Alliance for School Choice, the author of numerous books, and a Supreme Court Litigator.

We’ll be giving away a copy of his book, “Voucher Wars!”

Lunch Will Be Provided!!

TELEFORUM- Collateral Damage in Combat Operations


To participate in this practice group Teleforum, please dial 888-752-3232
on Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. (EST) via telephone.

Professor Gregory McNeal will discuss how the U.S. military implements its International Humanitarian Law obligation to mitigate and prevent harm to civilians during combat operations. He will describe the process the U.S. military follows to estimate and mitigate the impact of conventional weapons on collateral persons and objects in most pre-planned military operations involving air-to-surface weapons and artillery. 

In recent years, an entire body of academic literature and policy commentary has been based on an incomplete understanding of how the U.S. conducts military operations. The literature is incomplete because U.S. practices are shrouded in secrecy and largely inaccessible. As a result commentators have lacked a descriptive foundation to analyze and critique U.S. operations. Their writings have focused on easily describable issues such as whether a target was a lawful military objective, and then typically shift attention to the question of proportionality balancing and collateral damage.  These commentators skip an important aspect of actual practice - the scientifically grounded mitigation steps followed by U.S. armed forces. Those mitigation steps are designed to ensure a less than 10% probability of collateral damage resulting from any pre-planned operation.

You can read Professor McNeal's recent paper on this topic by clicking here


More on Greg McNeal http://www.lawandterrorism.com/