Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities Symposium on Jonathan Gienapp
Michael Ramsey

Recently published, the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities’ Symposium in Honor of Jonathan Gienapp’s Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (vol. 36.3, 2026).  Here are the contributions:

1. William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs, Yes, The Founders Were Originalists

2. Mary Sarah Bilder, The Free Constitution: The Real Genius of the Constitution

3. Thomas B. Colby, Can Originalism Survive Jonathan Gienapp?

4. William Ewald, What Does Originalism Have to Do with Philosophy of Mathematics?

5. Lawrence Lessig, Essential Fidelities

6. John Mikhail, Birthright Citizenship, Unwritten Constitutionalism, and the Nature of the Union

7. Mark Peterson, Against Against Constitutional Originalism: A Critique of a Critique

8. Logan Sawyer, Gienapp’s Big Book: Conceptual Rupture, Modernism, and the End of Originalism

9. Reva B. Siegel, History or Memory?: Claims on the Past in Constitutional Argument Over Originalism, Civil War/Reconstruction, and MAGA

10. Cass R. Sunstein, Historians and Originalists

11. Kevin C. Walsh, In the Beginning There Was Positive Law: Section 25, Calder v. Bull, and Constitutional Continuity

12. John Fabian Witt, The Obsolescence of the Originalism Battles

13. Jonathan Gienapp, The Constitution and Historical Rupture

Thanks to symposium editor Zachary Brown (Yale JD/PhD candidate) for the pointer.

Posted at 6:04 AM