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USD Law Constitutional Originalism Conference Lauded in New York Times

SAN DIEGO (February 7, 2011)—Today, former USD School of Law Visiting Professor Stanley Fish’s opinion of the school’s second Works-in-Progress conference was published in the New York Times. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism, the conference focused on a variety of new works concerning originalism, a brand of interpretation that demands fidelity to original meaning.

The conference was held in front of a spirited audience eager to debate the nuances of interpreting the U.S. Constitution. On topics ranging from the Fourteenth Amendment to the executive extent of habeus corpus, the cerebral discussion tackled a host of questions designed not to resolve disputes among the academics, but rather to find the best path toward getting to an answer.

Click here to read the entire opinion titled, “What Is Academic.”