February 09, 2024

Today and tomorrow the USD Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism will host the Fifteenth Annual Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference.  Here is the schedule of papers: 

Friday, Feb. 9

2:00 – 2:30      Welcome Reception & Check In  

2:30 – 2:45      Opening Remarks:  Michael Rappaport (USD)

2:45 – 4:00      First Paper: Sai Prakash (Virginia):

Spirit

                             Commentator: Larry Solum (Virginia)  

                             Moderator: Christopher Green (Mississippi)

4:00 – 4:15      Break

4:15 – 5:30      Second Paper: Christine Kexel Chabot (Marquette):

The Founders’ Purse

                            Commentator: Ilan Wurman (Arizona State)

                            Moderator: John Mikhail (Georgetown)

Saturday, Feb. 10

9:45 – 10:45    Special Two-Paper Session

                           William Baude (Chicago) & Michael Paulsen (St. Thomas):

 The Sweep and Force of Section Three

                           Josh Blackman (South Texas) & Seth Barrett Tillman (Maynooth):

 Sweeping And Forcing The President Into  Section 3        

                            Moderator: Thomas Colby (George Washington)

10:45 – 11:00  Break

11:00 – 12:00  Continuation of the Special Two-Paper Session        

12:00 – 1:15    Lunch & break

1:15 – 2:30      Fifth Paper: Ryan Williams (Boston College)

                           Unconstitutional Conditions and the Constitutional Text                 

                           Commentator: Jack Balkin (Yale)

                           Moderator: David Upham (Dallas)

2:30 – 2:45      Break

2:45 – 4:00      Sixth Paper: Preston Jordan Lim (Villanova): 

The Great Depression and Canada’s Originalist Decade

                           Commentator: Justice Russell Brown (Supreme Court of Canada (retired))

                           Moderator: Maimon Schwarzschild (USD)

4:00 – 4:15      Break

4:15 – 5:30      Seventh Paper: Kurt Lash (Richmond) & Stephanie Barclay (Notre Dame):

     A Crust of Bread: Religious Resistance and the Fourteenth Amendment

                            Commentator: Fred Gedicks (BYU)

                            Moderator: Steven Smith (USD)

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