Founded in 1982 during the Reagan administration, “FedSoc” at first sought to counter the perceived liberal hegemony at American law schools. When he was a law professor at the University of Chicago, before becoming a lower-court judge, Scalia was the faculty adviser for the local FedSoc chapter; Robert Bork, subsequently an unsuccessful Reagan nominee to the Court, was the adviser at Yale. The organization provided a platform for debate and eventually advocacy about state sovereignty, property rights, the Second Amendment, and campaign finance regulation.
