2021 Webcasts

Friday, February 19 – Saturday, February 20, 2021

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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  • Discussion
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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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  • Discussion
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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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  • Discussion
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 Sixth Paper

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