An announcement from the Federalist Society:
Introducing the Meese Prize for Excellence in Originalist Scholarship
In 1985, then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III said in a speech to the ABA: the Framers “chose their words carefully. . . . The language they chose meant something. It is incumbent on the Court to determine what that meaning was.” An originalist jurisprudence, Meese said, would be based on principles, and not “tainted by ideological predilection.”
Now, forty years later, the Federalist Society is introducing the Meese Prize for Excellence in Originalist Scholarship. Each year, a panel of leading experts will select the best new article or book on originalism published in the preceding calendar year. The Federalist Society will announce the recipient of the $10,000 Meese Prize at the National Lawyers Convention in November. We hope that the new prize will promote and inspire new and groundbreaking originalist scholarship. The prize is made possible by Steven Calabresi, Federalist Society co-chairman and co-founder, who has written extensively on originalism himself and served as an advisor to then-Attorney General Meese.
The Federalist Society will accept nominations for the first annual Meese Prize until March 15 at meeseprize@fedsoc.org.
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