Federalist Society Founded at Yale Law School

Law students at Yale, the University of Chicago, and Harvard Law School co-founded the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, with seed funding from the Scaife and Olin Foundations. The organization was designed to recruit and develop conservative and originalist legal thinkers at elite law schools and build a pipeline to the federal judiciary. By 2023, six of nine sitting Supreme Court justices were members or had strong ties to the organization.