Fourth Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference

Conference Overview

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism, the conference will involve the presentation of a variety of new works concerning originalism. All scholars who are interested in originalism are invited to attend. This conference is made possible through support from the Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation.

Works-in-Progress

• James Allan (Queensland), Australian Originalism without a Bill of Rights: Going Down the Drain with a Different Spin
  • Commentator: Grant Huscroft (Western Ontario)
• William Baude (Stanford Constitutional Law Center), Rethinking the Federal Eminent Domain Power
  • Commentator: Martin Redish (Northwestern)
• Thomas Colby (George Washington), Originalism and the Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Commentator: Michael McConnell (Stanford)
• Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Hall), Originalist Sin
  • Commentator: Larry Solum (Georgetown)
• Gregory Maggs (George Washington), Using Dictionaries from the Founding Era as a Source of the Original Meaning of the Constitution
  • Commentator: Lawrence Solan (Brooklyn)
• Gerard Magliocca (Indiana), John Bingham and the Drafting and Defense of the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Commentator: Earl Maltz (Rutgers)
• John McGinnis (Northwestern), Is Judicial Restraint an Originalist Method?
  • Commentator: Randy Barnett (Georgetown)

Videos of the Conference

Recordings posted to YouTube.

Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism Members

• Michael Rappaport — Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Professor of Law and Center Director, University of San Diego
• Lawrence Alexander — Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego
• Laurence Claus — Herzog Endowed Scholar and Professor of Law, University of San Diego
• Donald Dripps — Professor of Law, University of San Diego
• Christopher Green — Visiting Professor of Law, University of San Diego
• Michael Ramsey — University Professor and Professor of Law, University of San Diego
• Steven Smith — Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego

Conference Organizers

• Michael Rappaport — Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Professor of Law and Center Director, University of San Diego
• Michael Ramsey — University Professor and Professor of Law, University of San Diego
• Steven Smith — Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego