Each year, the Center sponsors the annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture and Faculty Colloquium<\/a> on some aspect of our constitutional history. Each lecture is delivered in the courtroom of the Supreme Court of the United States and is hosted by a Justice. The next day, a group of scholars meets at Georgetown Law to discuss papers written on the topic of the lecture. The lecture and papers are then published in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy<\/em>.<\/p>\n Previous topics include:<\/p>\n The annual Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize<\/a> of $50,000 honors a book for its contribution to our understanding of the Constitution. Thomas McIntyre Cooley was a longstanding Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where he also served as the Dean. Cooley was a renowned legal scholar who authored several highly influential treatises, including A Treatise on\u00a0the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon\u00a0the Legislative Power of the States of the American\u00a0Union <\/em>and The General Principles of Constitutional\u00a0Law in the United States of America<\/em>. The Book Prize is awarded each year at the Center’s annual gala at the National Archives, which is accompanied by a lecture from a leading jurist.<\/p>\n Previous awards include:<\/p>\n\n
Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize & Judicial Lecture<\/h2>\n
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Our Scholars<\/h2>\n
Visiting Scholars<\/h3>\n