{"id":3213,"date":"2025-10-09T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/?page_id=3213"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:59:18","slug":"2025-research-fellows-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/2025-research-fellows-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Research Fellows Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This Friday, October 10, 2025, the Georgetown Center for the Constitution will welcome scholars from across the country to its Second Annual In-Person Research Fellows Conference \u2014 a daylong program dedicated to advancing in-progress constitutional scholarship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Launched in 2024 by our Faculty Co-Director, Professor Stephanie Barclay, the Research Fellows Program is a two-year, non-residential fellowship designed to support early-career academics working on constitutional law. The program provides a platform for fellows to receive dedicated commentary from senior scholars with deep expertise in their fields and to build meaningful connections with both junior and senior constitutional law scholars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this year\u2019s in-person conference, six of our twenty-eight Research Fellows will share original works in progress \u2014 ranging from book proposals to law review articles \u2014 and engage in rigorous discussion and feedback from the full cohort and top scholars in their areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Eleonora Bottini<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the Heart of Power: Supreme Courts as Guardians of the Right to Vote<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commentary by Richard Pildes (NYU School of Law)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Samuel Merchant<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sentencing at the Founding<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commentary by Michael Klarman (Harvard Law School)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Raphael Grenier-Benoit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adjudication and the Justification of Constitutional Authority<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commentary by Lawrence Solum (University of Virginia School of Law)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Angela Wu Howard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Religious Exceptions and the Art of Good Governance<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commentary by Alexander Tsesis (Florida State University College of Law)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Lael Weinberger<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Churches and the Transformation of Corporations as Nonstate Actors<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; Commentary by Kellen Funk (Columbia Law School)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Gabrielle Girgis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Establishment Clause Interpretation After Kennedy<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commentary by Mark Storslee (University of North Carolina School of Law)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Research Fellows Program was created to nurture and amplify the work of rising scholars in constitutional theory, providing space for rigorous academic exchange and mentorship. The Center\u2019s fellows have published influential law review articles, been cited by the United States Supreme Court and high courts abroad, and helped shape key scholarly conversations about the Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Center is excited to continue leading this important effort and to showcase the remarkable work being done by our Research Fellows.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, October 10, 2025, the Georgetown Center for the Constitution will welcome scholars from across the country to its Second Annual In-Person Research Fellows Conference \u2014 a daylong program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14143,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-3213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3213\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}