For leaders of student chapters of the Federalist Society, getting Justice Antonin Scalia as a speaker at their law schools is a dream realized. For Caitlin Wallace, a 3L at the University of Wyoming College of Law and head of its FedSoc chapter, it seemed a pipedream. UW, nestled between two mountain ranges in Laramie, is one of the smallest law schools in the nation and the smallest public law school. But Wallace wrote to Justice Scalia anyway, thinking there was nothing to lose by trying.
Imagine her surprise when the Justice wrote back with a “yes” to her invitation. According to Laramie Boomerang reporter Joshua Roberts, who wrote a cool story on this, Caitlin Wallace defied the odds given at a FedSoc student leadership conference, at which some 500 students listened to a speaker on the topic of drawing a big name to your school. On a screen appeared two photos. One was Elvis, the other Scalia. The message was that one’s chance of drawing either man was quite dim. Bagging Scalia is considered quite the feather in FedSoc student chapter circles. “Justin Bieber is to teen pop is what Justice Scalia is to law students,” Wallace said.
