Each February, the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism holds its annual Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference. The conference includes approximately six unpublished papers on originalism, each with separate commentators, followed by questions from the other conference participants.
Visit our events page for information on this year’s conference.
Submissions
We invite you to submit a work-in-progress for the conference. A work-in-progress is a draft paper in article or book chapter form that is not yet published as of the conference date. An originalism paper is defined broadly to be any paper that argues for or against originalism as a matter of theory or applies originalism to some aspect of the Constitution.
Submissions should take the form of a draft paper or a one-to-three page abstract. (Draft papers are strongly preferred.) The center director and members will select an appropriate range of papers to be presented at the conference. Submissions should be sent by the end of the August preceding the February conference in which you would like to participate. Authors of the selected papers are asked to have the paper ready for circulation to conference participants in late January.
In addition to paper authors and commentators, we invite all scholars who do work on originalism to attend and participate in the conference by reading the papers and joining in the discussion.
Submissions should be sent to mrappaport@gmail.com.
To register for the conference, please email csco@sandiego.edu.