This is my second post on the papers at last weekend's originalism works-in-progress conference (first post here).
The second paper of the conference was by Steve Sachs (Duke Law School), Originalism as a Theory of Legal Change, with comments from Richard Fallon (Harvard Law School). Unfortunately, as far as I know, the paper is not yet publicly available, so I'll make only a couple of general comments.
The bottom line is that this is going to be one of the most important articles — quite possibly the most important — in originalism theory in 2014. (Its spot in the "originalism top ten for 2014" seems assured.) It's a very ambitious attempt to justify originalism by reference to legal practices, not (as I'm inclined to do) by reference to normative claims. Also — and this is an odd thing to say about a draft article on legal theory that's 74 pages and 259 footnotes — it's fun to read.
Posted at 5:21 PM