The University of San Diego’s Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism has announced the list of papers and commentators for the Seventeenth Annual Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference, scheduled for February 6-7, 2026, at the University of San Diego School of Law:
William Baude (Chicago), “Crosskey’s Legacy”; Commentator: Tara Grove (Texas)
Joseph Blocher (Duke) & Reva Siegel (Yale), “The Ambitions of History and Tradition in and Beyond the Second Amendment”; Commentator: Joel Alicea (Catholic)
Eric Claeys (Scalia), “The Police Power and the Fourteenth Amendment”; Commentator: Michael McConnell (Stanford)
Christopher Green (Ohio State), “Equal Citizenship Yes, Intermediate Scrutiny No”; Commentator: Jack Balkin (Yale)
John Harrison (Virginia), “Does the Constitution Give the United States Government General Authority to Act in the National Interest?”; Commentator: John Mikhail (Georgetown)
Ryan Snyder (Missouri), “Historical Practice at the Founding”; Commentator: Aditya Bamzai (Virginia)
Keith Whittington (Yale), “By Birth Alone: The Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship and Subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States”; Commentator: Thomas Lee (Fordham)
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