Rule of Law

New Textualism, Living Originalism: A Consensus In Constitutional Interpretation?

Details

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
21:00:00
Georgetown Law School Supreme Court Institute

 

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Panelists

Professor Jack Balkin
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment
Yale Law School

Professor Randy Barnett
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory
Georgetown University Law Center

Professor David Fontana
Associate Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School

Professor James E. Ryan
William L. Matheson & Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law

Moderated by

Elizabeth B. Wydra
Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center

Location

Eric E. Hotung International Law Building
Supreme Court Institute Moot Courtroom
Hotung 2003

 

Reception Immediately Following

 

Living Originalism (Harv. Univ. Press 2011) will be available for signing by Professor Balkin

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