Event
15th Annual Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference

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.
Two-Paper Session on Article 3 of the 14th Amendment
- William Baude (Chicago) & Michael Stokes Paulsen (St. Thomas), "The Sweep and Force of Section Three"
- Josh Blackman (South Texas) & Seth Barrett Tillman (Maynooth), "Sweeping and Forcing the President into Section 3: A Reply to William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen"
- Christine Kexel Chabot (Marquette), "The Founders’ Purse"
- Commentator: Ilan Wurman (Arizona State)
- Stephanie Barclay (Notre Dame) & Kurt Lash (Richmond), "A Crust of Bread: Religious Resistance and the Fourteenth Amendment"
- Commentator: Frederick Gedicks (BYU)
- Preston Lim (Villanova), "The Great Depression and Canada’s Originalist Decade"
- Commentator: Justice Russell Brown (Supreme Court of Canada – retired)
- Sai Prakash (Virginia), "Spirit"
- Commentator: Larry Solum (Virginia)
- Ryan Williams (Boston College), "Unconstitutional Conditions And The Constitutional Text"
- Commentator: Jack Balkin (Yale)
2024 Participants
- Lawrence Alexander, University of San Diego
- J. Joel Alicea, Catholic University
- Jack Balkin, Yale Law School
- Stephanie Barclay, Notre Dame Law School
- Randy Barnett, Georgetown Law
- William Baude, University of Chicago Law School
- Thomas Berry, Cato Institute
- Josh Blackman, South Texas College of Law Houston
- Russell Brown, Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Jud Campbell, Stanford
- Christine Kexel Chabot, Marquette University Law School
- Laurence Claus, University of San Diego
- Thomas Colby, The George Washington University Law School
- Andrew R. DeLoach, Trinity Law School
- Donald Dripps, University of San Diego
- Frederick Gedicks, Brigham Young University Law School
- Sherif Girgis, Notre Dame Law School
- Chris Green, University of Mississippi
- Adam Griffin, Pacific Legal Foundation
- Kurt Lash, University of Richmond
- Preston Lim, Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law
- Harold Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law
- John Mikhail, Georgetown University
- Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of St. Thomas School of Law
- James Phillips, Brigham Young University
- Sai Prakash, Virginia Law
- Richard Primus, The University of Michigan
- Michael Ramsey, University of San Diego
- Michael Rappaport, University of San Diego
- Stephen Sachs, Harvard Law School
- Theodore Seto, LMU Loyola Law School
- Maimon Schwarzschild, University of San Diego
- Jed Shugerman, Boston University
- Steven D. Smith, Univeristy of San Diego
- Mila Sohoni, University of San Diego
- Larry Solum, University of Virginia
- Seth Barrett Tillman, Maynooth University
- William Treanor, Georgetown University Law Center
- Lorienne Updike Toler, Northern Illinois University School of Law
- David Upham, University of Dallas
- Steven Walt, University of Virginia
- Ryan Williams, Boston College Law School
- Ilan Wurman, Arizona State University
- Ethan Yan, Yale University
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 — Professor of Law, University of San Diego
- Donald Dripps — Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego
- Michael Ramsey — Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Professor of Law, University of San Diego
- Steven Smith — Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego
