Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture & Faculty Colloquium
Salmon Portland Chase was an antislavery lawyer, co-founder of the Liberty, Free Soil, and Republican parties, Governor of Ohio, U.S. Senator, Treasury Secretary, and Chief Justice of the United States.
The papers, along with the distinguished lecture, are published as a symposium issue of the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. The papers may also be published as an anthology to be sold on Amazon as part of the Center’s Constitutional Discourse Series. Below is a catalog of all our lecturers and authors.
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 Paper Authors:
- Jackson Barlow (Juniata College)
- Richard Brookhiser (National Review)
- Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford)
- 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 Paper Authors:
- Ellen Katz (University of Michigan Law School
- Paula Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law)
- David Bernstein (Antonin Scalia Law School)
- 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 Paper Authors:
- Alison LaCroix (Chicago Law)
- Eric Lomazoff (Villanova Universiy)
- Farah Peterson (University of Virginia)
- David Schwartz (University of Wisconsin Law School)
- 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)
- Joseph Postell (University of Colorado)
- Lawrence Solum (Georgetown Law)
- 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:
- Danielle Allen (Harvard University)
- Michael McConnell (Stanford Law)
- Eric Nelson (Harvard University)
- Maeva Marcus (The George Washington University Law School)
- 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)