On November 3, Boston University School of Law is holding a Symposium on Jack Balkin’s Living Originalism and David Strauss’ The Living Constitution. Here is the announcement:
Boston University School of Law is pleased to launch a new series of symposia on significant recent books in law. The distinctive format is to pick two significant recent books that join issue on an important topic, to invite the author of each book to write an essay on the other book, and to invite several BU faculty to write an essay on one or the other or both books. We then will publish the pieces in Boston University Law Review.
The first symposium in this series will pair Yale Law School Professor Jack Balkin’s book, Living Originalism (Harvard University Press, 2011), and University of Chicago Law School Professor David Strauss’s recent book, The Living Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2010). Symposium speakers will include Professors Balkin and Strauss as well as BU professors Hugh Baxter, James Fleming, Gary Lawson, David Lyons, Linda McClain, Abby Moncrieff and Larry Yackle.
Of special note is this essay by Gary Lawson: Thoughts from a Deadhead: Dead Originalism and the Dead Constitution.
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