The University of San Diego's Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism is holding its Third Annual Works-in-Progress Conference on Feb. 3-4, 2012. Here is the slate of speakers and commentators:
1. Garrett Epps (Baltimore): The Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the
Fourteenth Amendment: The Case for “Narrative Originalism”
Commentator: Chris Green (Mississippi)
2. Jamal Greene (Columbia): Fourteenth Amendment Originalism
Commentator: Michael Paulsen (St. Thomas)
3. Jennifer Mason McAward (Notre Dame): McCulloch and the Thirteenth Amendment
Commentator: Mark Tushnet (Harvard)
4. Stephen Sachs (Duke): Constitutional Backdrops
Commentator: Andrew Kent (Fordham)
5. Ilya Somin (George Mason): Originalism and Political Ignorance
Commentator: John McGinnis (Northwestern)
6. Special Double Session on the Enumerated Powers:
Kurt Lash (Illinois): Resolution VI: The Virginia Plan and Authority
to Resolve “Collective Action Problems” Under Article I, Sect. 8
John Mikhail (Georgetown): The Necessary and Proper Clauses
Robert Pushaw (Pepperdine): Obamacare and the Original Meaning of
the Commerce Clause: Identifying Historical Limits on Congress's
Powers
Commentator: Jack Balkin (Yale)
Also, constitutional scholars are invited to attend the conference and to participate as conferees. Others are welcome to observe the proceedings.
Additional information about the conference will be posted here in the near future.
Posted at 6:07 PM