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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