The University of San Diego's Originalism Center is pleased to present the complete list of papers and commentators for the Fifth Annual Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference scheduled for February 21-22, 2014 at the University of San Diego Law School.
1. Christopher Green (Mississippi), Loyal Denominatorism and the Fourteenth Amendment: Reconstruction History
Commentator: John Harrison (Virginia)
2. Stephen Sachs (Duke), Originalism as a Theory of Legal Change
Commentator: Richard Fallon (Harvard)
3. Larry Solum (Georgetown), The Fixation Thesis: The Original Meaning Of The Constitutional Text
Commentator: Mitch Berman (Texas)
4. Ilya Somin (George Mason), The Original Meaning of Public Use
Commentator: Michael McConnell (Stanford)
5. Yvonne Tew (Columbia), Originalism at Home and Abroad
Commentator: Bradley Miller (Western Ontario)
6. David Upham (Dallas), Interracial Marriage and the Original Understanding of the Privileges or Immunities Clause
Commentator: Jack Balkin (Yale)
7. Christopher Yoo (Penn), The Unitary Executive at the Constitutional Convention: James Wilson and the Creation of the American Presidency
Commentator: Jack Rakove (Stanford)
In addition to the authors and commentators, the members of the Originalism Center should also be in attendance. The members include:
Larry Alexander, Laurence Claus, Donald Dripps, Michael Ramsey, Michael Rappaport, and Steven Smith.
We are excited to have such a distinguished lineup of authors and commentators, and again we invite all scholars who are interested in originalism to attend and participate in the conference by reading the papers and joining the discussion. The Center would be happy to pay for the principal meals for those attending the whole conference but not giving a paper or serving as a commentator.
Posted at 11:26 PM