Todd Henderson is the Michael J. Professor Henderson received an engineering degree cum laude from Princeton University in He worked for several years designing and building dams in California before matriculating at the Law School. He graduated magna cum laude in and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, Todd served as clerk to the Hon.
Visit us on the web at www. Todd Henderson : Thank you. Thank you for coming. Lots of familiar faces, some new faces, some faces from my torts class. Welcome home to all of you. I hope that your experience here is as great as mine was and continues to be. This is me 20 years ago, June, with one of my intellectual heroes, Richard Epstein, who I had for four different classes, including telecommunications and Roman law and land use planning.
And all of them were the same class, just Richard on the world and human welfare. I put this up here because this was a job that he had and I have now. And when I was in your position, I heard him give these remarks. And so I feel quite a burden from Scalia to Epstein to me. Like one of those things is not like the other, I used to say on Sesame street. Todd Henderson : So a little bit you heard this that's what he just read, I want to say one thing at the outset, which is you don't have to believe this stuff to be in the Federalist society.
I don't believe this stuff. Let's talk about judges. It's emphatically the judge, like I don't know. I think it's complicated. So I think the Federalist society started for a very important reason, establishes these broad principles, but you don't have to agree with all of them or as emphatically as other people do to be a vibrant participant in the Federalist society. For those of you who think that the benefits of membership are there and talking about what those are, great, join up and sign up and be an active participant.
Some of you may not be joiners. I'm not a real big joiner. I'm usually the guy on the outside going like "why did people join that? Todd Henderson : It will have lots of great events bringing interesting speakers to campus.
