2021 Webcasts

Friday, February 19 – Saturday, February 20, 2021

• 2021 Conference Details

Conference Introductory Remarks

• Introduction by Professor Michael Rappaport

First Paper 

• Presenter: Richard Fallon (Harvard), The Chimerical Concept of Original Public Meaning
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• Commentator: Gary Lawson (BU)
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• Discussion
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 Second Paper

• Presenter: 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
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• Commentator: Jennifer Mascott (Scalia)
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• Discussion
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 Third Paper

• Presenter: Lawrence Solum (Virginia) & Max Crema (Georgetown), The Original Meaning of “Due Process of Law” In The Fifth Amendment
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• Commentator: Tara Leigh Grove (Alabama)
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 Fourth Paper

• Presenter: Ernest Young (Duke), Dying Constitutionalism and The Lost Years Of The Fourteenth Amendment
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• Commentator: Jamal Greene (Columbia)
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 Fifth Paper

• Presenter: Jason Mazzone (Illinois) & Cem Tecimer (Harvard), Originalism and Inter-Constitutional Interpretation
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• Commentator: Jack Balkin (Yale)
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 Sixth Paper

• Presenter: Richard Epstein (NYU), Patent Originalism
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• Commentator: Christina Mulligan (Brooklyn)
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 Seventh Paper

• Presenter: Evan Bernick (Georgetown), Antisubjugation and The Equal Protection Of The Laws
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• Commentator: Michael McConnell (Stanford)
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