Friday and Saturday, we will host (virtually) the Twelfth Annual Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference at the University of San Diego Law School. Here is the schedule (all times are Pacific Time):
Friday, Feb. 19
9:30 – 10:00 Informal Meeting Time and East Lunch (in break out rooms).
10:00 -10:05 Dean’s Introduction
Dean Robert Schapiro (USD)
10:05 – 10:20 Opening Remarks
Michael Rappaport (USD)
10:20 – 11:35 First Paper: Richard Fallon (Harvard)
The Chimerical Concept of Original Public Meaning
Commentator: Gary Lawson (BU)
Moderator: Tom Colby (George Washington)
11:35 – 12:00 West Lunch (with informal chat in break out rooms).
12:00 – 1:15 Second Paper: Nicholas Parrillo (Yale)
A Critical Assessment of the Originalist Case Against Administrative Regulatory Power: New Evidence from the Federal Tax on Private Real Estate in the 1790s
Commentator: Jennifer Mascott (Scalia)
Moderator: Mila Sohoni (USD)
1:15 – 1:30 Break (with informal chat in break out rooms).
1:30 – 2:45 Third Paper: Lawrence Solum (Virginia) & Max Crema (Georgetown)
The Original Meaning Of “Due Process Of Law” In The Fifth Amendment
Commentator: Tara Leigh Grove (Alabama)
Moderator: Larry Alexander (USD)
2:45 – 4:00 Social Hour (with informal chat in break out rooms).
Saturday, Feb. 20
8:15 – 8:45 Informal Meeting Time (in break out rooms).
8:45 – 10:00 Fourth Paper: Ernest Young (Duke)
Dying Constitutionalism And The Lost Years Of The Fourteenth Amendment
Commentator: Jamal Greene (Columbia)
Moderator: Steve Smith (USD)
10:00 – 10:30 East Lunch (with informal chat in break out rooms).
10:30 – 11:45 Fifth Paper: Jason Mazzone (Illinois) & Cem Tecimer (Harvard)
Originalism And Inter-Constitutional Interpretation
Commentator: Jack Balkin (Yale)
Moderator: Shaakirrah Sanders (Idaho)
11:45 – 12:00 West Lunch (with informal chat in break out rooms).
12:00 – 1:15 Sixth Paper: Richard Epstein (NYU)
Patent Originalism
Commentator: Christina Mulligan (Brooklyn)
Moderator: Maimon Schwarzschild (USD)
1:15 – 1:30 Break (with informal chat in break out rooms).
1:30 – 2:45 Seventh Paper: Evan Bernick (Georgetown)
Antisubjugation And The Equal Protection Of The Laws
Commentator: Michael McConnell (Stanford)
Moderator: Laurie Claus (USD)
2:45 – 2:50 Concluding Remarks
Michael Rappaport (USD)
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