The Fourteenth Annual Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference, presented by the University of San Diego Law School Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism, will take place today and tomorrow in San Diego. Here is the schedule:
Friday, Feb. 10
2:30 – 2:45 Opening Remarks
Michael Rappaport (USD)
2:45 – 4:00 First Paper: William Baude (Chicago), Jud Campbell (Richmond) & Stephen Sachs (Harvard), General Law and the Fourteenth Amendment
Commentator: Jack Balkin (Yale)
Moderator: Eric Segall (Georgia State)
4:00 – 4:15 Break
4:15 – 5:30 Second Paper: Andrew Coan (Arizona) & David Schwartz (Wisconsin), The Original Meaning of Enumerated Powers
Commentator: Randy Barnett (Georgetown)
Moderator: Shaakirrah Sanders (Penn State)
Saturday, Feb. 11
9:30 – 10:45 Third Paper: Andrea Pin (Padua) & Graziella Romeo (Bocconi), Antonin Scalia and Hans Kelsen: An Odd Couple? Originalism and Neopositivism in Europe
Commentator: Fred Schauer (Virginia)
Moderator: Larry Alexander (USD)
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:15 Fourth Paper: John Harrison (Virginia), Natural Rights, Incorporation, and the Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment
Commentator: Michael McConnell (Stanford)
Moderator: David Upham (Dallas)
12:15 – 1:30 Break/Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 Fifth Paper: John McGinnis (Northwestern) & Michael Rappaport (USD), An Originalist Approach to Prospective Overruling
Commentator: Richard Kay (Connecticut)
Moderator: Tom Colby (GW)
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:15 Sixth Paper: Julian Mortenson (Michigan), “They Stood Forth in a Manly Way At Their Own Risk”: The Violate-and-Ratify Paradigm for Emergency Action in the Founding Era
Commentator: Amanda Tyler (Berkeley)
Moderator: Steve Smith (USD)
4:15 – 4:30 Break
4:30 – 5:45 Seventh Paper: Jed Shugerman (Fordham), Why “Executive Power” Did Not Include Removal: Vénalité, Offices as Property, and the Building/Buying of the Modern State
Commentator: Ilan Wurman (Arizona State)
Moderator: Maimon Schwarzschild (USD)
Posted at 6:27 AM