Institutionalizing Conservative Legal Influence

The conservative legal movement has moved from counter‑intellectual networks into durable institutional infrastructure—student groups, casebooks, feeder fellowships, and law‑school hiring pipelines—that systematically amplifies particular jurisprudential frameworks across courts and agencies. That infrastructure shapes judicial vetting, pedagogical norms, and long‑term doctrinal change even when headline politics shifts. — If true, the concrete institutionalization of a legal movement alters judicial outcomes, administrative law, and the composition of elite legal education for decades, making it a core governance story.