The Sixteenth Annual Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference, organized by the University of San Diego Law School Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism, will take place today and tomorrow. Here is the schedule:
Friday, Feb. 7
2:00 – 2:30 Welcome & Registration
2:30 – 2:45 Opening Remarks: Michael Rappaport (USD)
2:45 – 4:00 First Paper:
Mitchell Berman (Penn), Public Meaning Originalism: Right Question, Wrong Answer
Commentator: Will Baude (Chicago)
Moderator: Tom Colby
4:00 – 4:15 Break
4:15 – 5:30 Second Paper:
Ilan Wurman (Minnesota), The Constitution of 1789: Foreign Affairs and War
Commentator: Michael McConnell (Stanford)
Moderator: Maimon Schwarzschild (USD)
Saturday, Feb. 8
9:30 – 10:45 Third Paper:
Sherif Girgis (Notre Dame), Unfinished Liberties: The Inevitability of Interest-Balancing
Commentator: Stephanie Barclay (Georgetown)
Moderator: Steven Smith (USD)
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:15 Fourth Paper:
Randy Barnett (Georgetown) & Larry Solum (Virginia), Originalism and the Party Presentation Principle
Commentator: Tara Grove (Texas)
Moderator: Judge Patrick Bumatay (9th Circuit)
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:30 Fifth Paper:
Charles Capps (Arizona State), Does the Law Ever Run Out?
Commentator: Jack Balkin (Yale)
Moderator: David Upham (Dallas)
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 4:00 Sixth Paper:
Stephen Sachs (Harvard), The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA
Commentator: Thomas Schmidt (Columbia)
Moderator: Adam Griffin (Pacific Legal Foundation)
4:00 – 4:15 Break
4:15 – 5:30 Seventh Paper:
Robert Leider (Scalia), The Individual Right to Bear Arms for Common Defense
Commentator: Adam Winkler (UCLA)
Moderator: Chris Green (Mississippi)
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