The Salmon P. Chase Faculty Colloquium is an annual event that allows a diverse group of scholars to participate in open forum discussions of pressing policy issues. In previous years, paper publications, along with the distinguished lecture, were published as a symposium issue of the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. The papers were also published as anthologies that are sold on Amazon as part of the Center’s Constitutional Discourse Series.

Lecturers and authors catalog

Eleventh Annual Chase Colloquium (2024) on Private Threats to Liberty

Practitioners and academics came together to discuss ways in which they could bridge the gap between policy and practice in light of recent social, economic, and political developments.

Tenth Annual Chase Lecture and Faculty Colloquium (2023) commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Slaughter-House Cases & Bradwell v. Illinois

Tenth Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer: Walter Stahr (New York Times bestselling biographer and author of Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival)

Ninth Annual Chase Lecture and Faculty Colloquium (2022) honoring Frederick Douglass and the Anti-Slavery Constitution

Ninth Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer: Peter C. Myers (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)

Ninth Annual Salmon P. Chase Paper Authors:

• Gregory M. Collins (Yale)
• Helen Knowles (Oswego State University of New York)
• Bradley Rebeiro (Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School)
• Diana Schaub (Loyola Maryland)

Eighth Annual Chase Lecture and Faculty Colloquium (2021) commemorating the Constitutional Contributions of Gouverneur Morris

Eighth Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer: Dean William M. Treanor (Georgetown Law)

Eighth Annual Salmon P. Chase Papers and Authors:

• Nationalizing “the Curse of Heaven”: Gouverneur Morris on the Constitution and the Slave Power
  By: Jackson Barlow (Junianta College)
• Gouverneur Morris and Contemporary America: The Scrivener’s Ageless Views
  By: Richard Brookhiser (National Review)
• Representing the Nation: Gouverneur Morris’s Nationalist Constitutionalism
  By: Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford University)
• A Great Statesman: Reclaiming Gouverneur Morris
  By: Melanie Randolph Miller 

Seventh Annual Chase Lecture and Faculty Colloquium (2020) commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment

Seventh Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer: Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins)

Seventh Annual Salmon P. Chase Papers and Authors:

• Mary Lou Graves, Nolen Breedlove, and the Nineteenth Amendment
  By: Ellen D. Katz
• Gender, Voting Rights, and the Nineteenth Amendment
  By: Paula A. Monopoli (University of Maryland Carey School of Law)
• Revisiting Justice George Sutherland, the Nineteenth Amendment and Equal Rights for Women
  By: David Bernstein (Antonin Scalia Law School)
• The Politics of Constitutional Memory
  By: Reva Siegel (Yale Law)

Sixth Annual Chase Lecture and Faculty Colloquium (2019) Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in McCulloch v. Maryland

Sixth Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer: Sanford Levinson (University of Texas Law)

Sixth Annual Salmon P. Chase Papers and Authors:

• Alison LaCroix (Chicago Law)
• The Expanding Universe of McCulloch’s Known Unknowns
  By: Eric Lomazoff (Villanova Universiy)
• Farah Peterson (University of Virginia)
• McCulloch v. Maryland and the Incoherence of Enumerationism
  By: David Schwartz (University of Wisconsin Law School)
• Statutory Jurisdiction and Constitutional Orthodoxy in McCulloch, Cohens and Osborn
  By: Kevin Walsh (Richmond Law)

Fifth Annual Chase Lecture and Faculty Colloquium (2018) Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Cooley’s Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union

Fifth Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer: Charles McCurdy (University of Virginia School of Law)

Fifth Annual Salmon P. Chase Paper Authors:

• Tara Helfman (Syracuse Law)
• The Misunderstood Thomas Cooley: Regulation and Natural Rights from the Founding to the ICC
  By: Joseph Postell (University of Colorado)
• Cooley’s Constitutional Limitations and Constitutional Originalism
  By: Lawrence Solum (University of Virginia Law)
• Contracts, Constitutions, and Getting the Interpretation-Construction Distinction Right
  By: Gregory Klass (Georgetown Law)

Fourth Annual Chase Lecture and Faculty Colloquium (2017) Commemorating the Life and Career of Justice James Wilson

Fourth Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer: William Ewald (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)

Fourth Annual Salmon P. Chase Paper Authors:

• Golden Letters: James Wilson, the Declaration of Independence, and the Sussex Declaration
  By: Danielle Allen (Harvard University)
• James Wilson’s Contributions to the Construction of Article II
  By: Michael McConnell (Stanford Law)
• James Wilson and the Ancient Constitution
  By: Eric Nelson (Harvard University)
• Wilson as a Justice
  By: Maeva Marcus (The George Washington University Law School)
• James Wilson, Early American Land Companies, and the Original Meaning of “Ex Post Facto Law
  By: John Mikhail (Georgetown Law)

Third Annual Chase Lecture and Faculty Colloquium (2016) Commemorating the 225th Anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights

Third Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer: Colleen Sheehan (Arizona State University)

Third Annual Salmon P. Chase Paper Authors:

• Carol Berkin (The City University of New York)
• Jeff Broadwater (Barton College)
• Jud Campbell (Richmond Law )
• Michael J. Douma (Georgetown Law)
• Pauline Maier (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Second Annual Chase Lecture and Faculty Colloquium (2015) Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Thirteenth Amendment

Second Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer: Eric Foner (Columbia)

Second Annual Salmon P. Chase Paper Authors:

• Pamela Brandwein (University of Michigan )
• Chris Green (University of Mississippi School of Law)
• David Upham (University of Dallas)
• Rebecca Zietlow (The University of Toledo College of Law)
• Lea VanderVelde (The University of Iowa – College of Law)

Inaugural Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecturer (2014) Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Salmon Chase becoming Chief Justice

First Annual Salmon Chase Distinguished Lecturer: James Oakes (The City University of New York)