{"id":889,"date":"2020-08-24T11:20:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/?page_id=889"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:57:02","slug":"past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/fellows-scholars\/student-fellows\/past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>2024 &#8211; 2025<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Book Launch: A <em>Life for Liberty: the Making of an American Originalist<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Randy Barnett, Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law &amp; Faculty Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Common Good<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Mehan, Associate Dean &amp; Assistant Professor of Government at Hillsdale College<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Administrative State and the Rule of Law<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michael Buschbacher, Partner at Boyden Gray PLLC<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">A Tale of Two Constitutions: a Comparison of Methods of Constitutional Interpretation in the United States and Hungary<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. M\u00e1rton Sulyok, Visiting Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and Head of the Public Law Center at MCC School of Law in Hungary<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">A Constitution Unifying a Torn Nation? the Past and Present of the New Hungarian Fundamental Law<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bal\u00e1zs Orb\u00e1n, Political Director of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Book Talk: The<em> New Deal&#8217;s War on the Bill of Rights: the Untold Story of FDR&#8217;s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>David Beito, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Professor Beito will be discussing his groundbreaking book. We will be distributing copies to attendees and there will be an opportunity to get books signed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Religious Freedom and the Administrative State<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Roger Severino, Vice President of Domestic Policy &amp; The Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Fellow at the Heritage Foundation<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">American Covenant: How the Constitution Unifies Our Nation and Could Again<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Original Meaning of &#8220;Police Powers&#8221; in the Early Republic: Some Preliminaries<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Christian Gonzalez-Rivera, Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and Assistant Professor of Law at St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Book Talk: The<em> Collective-Action Constitution<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Neil Siegel, David W. Ichel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Duke Law School<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2022-2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Book talk: The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2195 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FotoJet_83-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FotoJet_83-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FotoJet_83-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FotoJet_83-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FotoJet_83-740x493.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FotoJet_83-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FotoJet_83.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Professor Aziz Huq, Chicago law<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Tuesday, September 20<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">12:30 pm | <\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">McDonough 164<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Introduction by Professor Shon Hopwood<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">An exploration of how and why the Constitution&#8217;s plan for independent courts has failed to protect individuals&#8217; constitutional rights, while advancing regressive and reactionary barriers to progressive regulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">The Unqualified Impunity of Qualified Immunity<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2196 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-334x500.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-494x740.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-654x980.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-814x1220.jpg 814w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-960x1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-500x750.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-740x1110.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-980x1470.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/FbGzlUaUIAA-OgT-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Alexa Gervasi, Executive Director of the Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Tuesday, September 27<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">12:30 pm | <\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">McDonough 164<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">An introduction to the judge-made qualified and absolute immunity doctrines that shield government officials from accountability for constitutional violations. This program will explore what these doctrines are, why they exist, and how they undermine constitutional protections through modern case examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Technology, Listeners, and the First Amendment<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2205\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2205\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/norton_01-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Helen Norton of the Colorado Law School stands at the podium while teaching her law course.\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/norton_01-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/norton_01-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/norton_01-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/norton_01-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/norton_01-500x753.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/norton_01-740x1114.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/norton_01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Casey A. Cass\/University of Colorado)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Professor Helen Norton,<\/span><a class=\"jsgrdq cx_external_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/law\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\"> Colorado Law School<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Co-sponsored by the Institute for Technology Law and Policy<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Tuesday, October 4th<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">12:30 pm | McDonough 200<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Introduction by Professor Paul Ohm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Empowered by the ability to collect and aggregate information about users and then to tailor messages designed to shape those users\u2019 responses, today\u2019s digital technologies can facilitate manipulation unprecedented in its reach and success. Differences in power and information matter to First Amendment law, permitting the government\u2019s interventions to protect<\/span> <span class=\"JsGRdQ\">vulnerable listeners. The First Amendment permits the government to intervene to protect listeners from speakers\u2019 manipulative efforts in certain settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Commission on Unalienable Rights<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2222\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2222\" class=\" wp-image-2222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University standing at the podium discussing the controversy over the State Department\u2019s Policy Planning Staff commission, the report\u2019s principal arguments, and its larger significance. \" width=\"253\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-740x740.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/20171023-berkowitz-980x980.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Eric Draper<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution at Stanford University <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Wednesday, October 26th<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">4:30 pm | <\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">McDonough 201<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In the summer of 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo provoked controversy when he announced the formation of the Commission on Unalienable Rights. The purpose of the independent commission was to provide advice on human rights in American foreign policy in light of America&#8217;s founding principles, constitutional traditions, and the obligations the nation took on in 1948 when the United States voted in the UN General Assembly in favor of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Peter Berkowitz, who served as director of the State Department&#8217;s Policy Planning Staff and the commission&#8217;s executive secretary, will discuss the controversy over the commission, the report&#8217;s principal arguments, and its larger significance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Democratic Justice Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2224 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/51eHWrnE0mL._SL500_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/51eHWrnE0mL._SL500_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/51eHWrnE0mL._SL500_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/51eHWrnE0mL._SL500_-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/51eHWrnE0mL._SL500_.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Professor Brad Snyder, Georgetown Law\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Wednesday, November 2nd<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">12:00 <\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">pm | McDonough 202<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In this sweeping narrative, Brad Snyder offers a full and fascinating portrait of the remarkable life and legacy of a long misunderstood American figure. This is the biography of an Austrian Jewish immigrant who arrived in the United States at age eleven speaking not a word of English, who by age twenty- six befriended former president Theodore Roosevelt, and who by age fifty was one of Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s most trusted advisers. It is the story of a man devoted to democratic ideals, a natural orator and often overbearing justice, whose passion allowed him to amass highly influential friends and helped create the liberal establishment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Nondelegation or No Divesting<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Professor <\/span><a class=\"jsgrdq cx_external_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law.columbia.edu\/faculty\/philip-hamburger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\">Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor David Hyman, Georgetown law<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Tuesday, November 8th<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-subtitle\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">1:00 <\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">pm | McDonough 156<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Government by executive \u201cdiktat\u201d is lately increasing. Many of these executive actions appear to have dubious\u2014if any\u2014statutory authority, but the courts have been reticent to validate objections along these lines. The U.S. Supreme Court has indicated a willingness to revisit and possibly to reinvigorate the non-delegation doctrine, or at least to put some teeth into its supposedly constraining intelligibility principle. The Court first will have to grapple with whether Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution contains a non-delegation principle at all?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Dobbs and Bruen: History, Tradition, and Originalism in the Supreme Court<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Professor Marc O. DeGirolami, St. John\u2019s Law<br \/>\nProfessor Lawrence B. Solum, Virginia Law<br \/>\nProfessor Randy E. Barnett, Georgetown Law<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Tuesday, <\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">November 15th<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">12:30 pm | <\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">McDonough 200<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-11-at-10.10.17-AM-300x117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-11-at-10.10.17-AM-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-11-at-10.10.17-AM-768x301.png 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-11-at-10.10.17-AM-500x196.png 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-11-at-10.10.17-AM-740x290.png 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-11-at-10.10.17-AM.png 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/> History and tradition played an important role in two of the most significant constitutional decisions from this past June. In <\/span><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization<\/span><\/em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">, Justice Alito&#8217;s opinion for the Court relied on tradition and history as the basis for overruling <\/span><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">. In <\/span><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">New York State Rifle &amp; Pistol Association v. Bruen<\/span><\/em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">, Justice Thomas&#8217;s opinion for the Court used tradition and history to define the scope of the right to bear arms.<\/span> <span class=\"JsGRdQ\">DeGirolami, Solum, and Barnett will discuss the role of originalism, tradition, and history in <\/span><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Dobbs<\/span><\/em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> and <\/span><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Bruen<\/span><\/em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2021-2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1193 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/A-Glorious-Liberty-Frederick-Douglass-and-the-Fight-for-an-Antislavery-Constitution-300x178.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/A-Glorious-Liberty-Frederick-Douglass-and-the-Fight-for-an-Antislavery-Constitution-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/A-Glorious-Liberty-Frederick-Douglass-and-the-Fight-for-an-Antislavery-Constitution-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/A-Glorious-Liberty-Frederick-Douglass-and-the-Fight-for-an-Antislavery-Constitution-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/A-Glorious-Liberty-Frederick-Douglass-and-the-Fight-for-an-Antislavery-Constitution-1536x913.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/A-Glorious-Liberty-Frederick-Douglass-and-the-Fight-for-an-Antislavery-Constitution-2048x1217.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/A-Glorious-Liberty-Frederick-Douglass-and-the-Fight-for-an-Antislavery-Constitution-500x297.png 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/A-Glorious-Liberty-Frederick-Douglass-and-the-Fight-for-an-Antislavery-Constitution-740x440.png 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/A-Glorious-Liberty-Frederick-Douglass-and-the-Fight-for-an-Antislavery-Constitution-980x583.png 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\">Thursday September 30 | 12:15 PM EST | McDonough 110<\/p>\n<p>Damon Root<\/p>\n<p>In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass\u2019s fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American history in the nineteenth century and beyond. At a time when the principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were under assault, Frederick Douglass picked up their banner, championing inalienable rights for all, regardless of race. When Americans were killing each other on the battlefield, Douglass fought for a cause greater than the mere preservation of the Union. \u201cNo war but an Abolition war,\u201d he maintained. \u201cNo peace but an Abolition peace.\u201d In the aftermath of the Civil War, when state and local governments were violating the rights of the recently emancipated, Douglass preached the importance of \u201cthe ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box\u201d in the struggle against Jim Crow<\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Administrative State and the Founders\u2019 Vision of Constitutional Administration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1194 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/white_adam-e1627409422110-300x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/white_adam-e1627409422110-300x300-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/white_adam-e1627409422110-300x300-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/white_adam-e1627409422110-300x300-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Wednesday October 27 | 11:45 AM EST | McDonough 201<\/p>\n<p>Adam White<\/p>\n<p>Join Adam J. White, Co-Executive Director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for a discussion on \u201cThe Administrative State and the Founders\u2019 Vision of Constitutional Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Launch: The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1164 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/41Oq179Y3dL._SX329_BO1204203200_-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/41Oq179Y3dL._SX329_BO1204203200_-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/41Oq179Y3dL._SX329_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/41Oq179Y3dL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>Tuesday November 2 | 12:15 PM EST | McDonough 110<\/p>\n<p>Professor Randy Barnett, Georgetown Law<\/p>\n<p>C0-Sponsored by the Federalist Society<\/p>\n<p>Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the amendment\u2019s key clauses, covering the privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process of law, and the equal protection of the laws. Barnett and Bernick contend that the Fourteenth Amendment was the culmination of decades of debates about the meaning of the antebellum Constitution. Antislavery advocates advanced arguments informed by natural rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the common law. They also utilized what is today called public-meaning originalism. Although their arguments lost in the courts, the Republican Party was formed to advance an antislavery political agenda, eventually bringing about abolition. Then, when abolition alone proved insufficient to thwart Southern repression and provide for civil equality, the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted. It went beyond abolition to enshrine in the Constitution the concept of Republican citizenship and granted Congress power to protect fundamental rights and ensure equality before the law. Finally, Congress used its powers to pass Reconstruction-era civil rights laws that tell us much about the original scope of the amendment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The Antifederalists and the Creation of the Constitution<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1195 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/dwebb-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/dwebb-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/dwebb.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>Monday November 15 | 3:00 PM EST | McDonough 200<\/p>\n<p>Derek Webb, Sidley Austin (GULC Alum)<\/p>\n<p>Join Georgetown Law alumni Derek Webb for a discussion of his forthcoming book on the Antifederalists in McDonough 200. Lunch will be provided.<br \/>\nMr. Webb is an associate in the Supreme Court and Appellate and Commercial Litigation and Disputes practice groups at Sidley. Previously, he was a fellow in Stanford Law School\u2019s Constitutional Law Center where he taught a seminar called \u201cReading the Constitution\u201d and successfully assisted with litigation on behalf of California raisin growers that reached the Supreme Court in Horne v. Department of Agriculture, 133 S. Ct. 2053 (2013).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>2020-2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"seo_h1_tag1\" class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">The Misunderstood Eleventh Amendment<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-957 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/0544556-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/0544556-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/0544556-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/0544556-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/0544556-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/0544556-740x740.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/0544556-980x980.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\">Wednesday November 18 | 3:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Professor Stephen Sachs, Duke Law<\/p>\n<p>The Eleventh Amendment might be the most misunderstood amendment to the Constitution. Both its friends and enemies have treated the Amendment\u2019s written text, and the unwritten doctrines of state sovereign immunity, as one and the same \u2014 whether by reading broad principles into its precise words, or by treating the written Amendment as merely an illustration of unwritten doctrines. The result is a bewildering forest of case law, which takes neither the words nor the doctrines seriously. The truth is simpler: the Eleventh Amendment means what it says. It strips the federal government of judicial power over suits brought against states, in law or equity, by diverse plaintiffs. It denies subject-matter jurisdiction in all such cases, to federal claims as well as state ones, and in only such cases. It cannot be waived. It cannot be abrogated. It applies on appeal. It means what it says. Likewise, the Amendment does not mean what it does not say: it neither abridges nor enlarges other, similar rules of sovereign immunity, derived from the common law and the law of nations, that limit the federal courts\u2019 personal jurisdiction over unconsenting states.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Who Are \u2018Officers of the United States\u2019<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-958 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/JWu4hjLLG8UN2GBgYf029MMwEMok1BAk2MrZDM03-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/JWu4hjLLG8UN2GBgYf029MMwEMok1BAk2MrZDM03-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/JWu4hjLLG8UN2GBgYf029MMwEMok1BAk2MrZDM03-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/JWu4hjLLG8UN2GBgYf029MMwEMok1BAk2MrZDM03-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/JWu4hjLLG8UN2GBgYf029MMwEMok1BAk2MrZDM03.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Friday November 6th | 12:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jennifer Mascott, George Mason Law<\/p>\n<p>For decades courts have believed that only officials with \u201csignificant authority\u201d are \u201cOfficers of the United States\u201d subject to the Constitution\u2019s Article II Appointments Clause requirements. But this standard has proved difficult to apply to major categories of officials. This Article examines whether \u201csignificant authority\u201d is even the proper standard, at least as that standard has been applied in modern practice. To uncover whether the modern understanding of the term \u201cofficer\u201d is consistent with the term\u2019s original public meaning, this Article uses two distinctive tools: (i) corpus linguistics-style analysis of Founding-era documents and (ii) examination of appointment practices during the First Congress following constitutional ratification. Both suggest that the original public meaning of \u201cofficer\u201d is much broader than modern doctrine assumes\u2014encompassing any government official with responsibility for an ongoing governmental duty. This historic meaning of \u201cofficer\u201d would likely extend to thousands of officials not currently appointed as Article II officers, such as tax collectors, disaster relief officials, customs officials, and administrative judges. This conclusion might at first seem destructive to the civil service structure because it would involve redesignating these officials as Article II officers\u2014not employees outside the scope of Article II\u2019s requirements. But this Article suggests that core components of the current federal hiring system might fairly readily be brought into compliance with Article II by amending who exercises final approval to rank and hire candidates. These feasible but significant changes would restore a critical mechanism for democratic accountability and transparency inherent in the Appointments Clause.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Judicial Deference: How Do I Defer to Thee? Let Me Count the Ways<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-959 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/c7QbkPXvD31j8NJRe0dDQOM0pj9uKdTCGbZywrRG-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/c7QbkPXvD31j8NJRe0dDQOM0pj9uKdTCGbZywrRG-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/c7QbkPXvD31j8NJRe0dDQOM0pj9uKdTCGbZywrRG-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/c7QbkPXvD31j8NJRe0dDQOM0pj9uKdTCGbZywrRG-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/c7QbkPXvD31j8NJRe0dDQOM0pj9uKdTCGbZywrRG.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Wednesday October 28th | 3:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Mark Chenoweth, New Civil Liberties Alliance<\/p>\n<p>Mark Chenoweth of the New Civil Liberties Alliance will discuss the topic of Judicial Deference using NCLA cases to provide examples of the different varieties.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Framing the Constitution: the Impact of Labels on Constitutional Interpretation<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-870 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Donald-Kochan-Headshot-June-2020-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Donald-Kochan-Headshot-June-2020-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Donald-Kochan-Headshot-June-2020-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Donald-Kochan-Headshot-June-2020-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Donald-Kochan-Headshot-June-2020-500x500.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Donald-Kochan-Headshot-June-2020-740x740.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Donald-Kochan-Headshot-June-2020-980x980.jpeg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Friday October 16th | 12:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Professor Donald Kochan, George Mason Law<\/p>\n<p>In his forthcoming book, Framing the Constitution: The Impact of Labels on Constitutional Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2020), the Center\u2019s Visiting Scholar Donald Kochan applies interdisciplinary social science research to constitutional labels. His research examines whether the choice of labeling text in the Constitution affects a receptor\u2019s perception. In other words, because language matters\u2014and first impressions do too\u2014a person\u2019s first interaction with a constitutional label matters. Extra-textual labels, a shorthand affixed to a specific right, power or other concept in the Constitution, according to Kochan, may impact how a person interprets the purpose and meaning of the Constitution\u2019s text to which that label attaches. Kochan says his book aims to \u201cmake people more sensitive to label choices\u201d and apply \u201cmore consideration in decisions to adopt or use labels.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Originalism&#8217;s Promise: a Natural Law Account of the American Constitution<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-960 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/download-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/download-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/download-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Wednesday October 14th | 3:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Professor Lee Strang, Toledo Law<\/p>\n<p>The foundation of the American legal system and democratic culture is its longstanding written Constitution. However, a contentious debate now exists between originalists, who employ the Constitution&#8217;s original meaning, and Nonoriginalists, who argue for a living constitution interpretation. The first natural law justification for an originalist interpretation of the American Constitution, Originalism&#8217;s Promise presents an innovative foundation for originalism and a novel description of its character. The book provides a deep, rich, and practical explanation of originalism, including the mostdetailed originalist theory of precedent in the literature. Of interest to judges, scholars, and lawyers, it will help all Americans better understand their own Constitution and shows why their reverence for it, its Framers, and its legal system, is supported by sound reasons. Originalism&#8217;s Promise is a powerful contribution to the most important theory in constitutional interpretation.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Diverse Originalism<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-407 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/cmulligan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/cmulligan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/cmulligan-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Wednesday September 30th | 3:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Professor Christina Mulligan, Brooklyn Law<\/p>\n<p>Originalism has a difficult relationship with race and gender. People of color and white women were largely absent from the process of drafting and ratifying the Constitution. Today, self-described originalists are overwhelmingly white men. In light of these realities, can originalism solve its \u201crace and gender\u201d problems while continuing to be originalist? This Article argues that originalists can take several actions today to address originalism\u2019s race and gender problems, including debiasing present-day interpretation, looking to historical sources authored by people of color and white women, and severing<br \/>\noriginalism and the Constitution\u2019s text from their historical associations with racism and sexism. Taking these steps will not only make originalism more inclusive, but also help originalists become better at accessing the original meaning of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Decryption Originalism: the Lessons of Burr<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-885 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/Orin-Kerr._-Article-201608101937-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/Orin-Kerr._-Article-201608101937-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/Orin-Kerr._-Article-201608101937-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/Orin-Kerr._-Article-201608101937-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/Orin-Kerr._-Article-201608101937-375x372.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Friday September 25th | 2:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Professor Orin Kerr, Berkeley Law<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is likely to rule soon on how the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination applies to compelled decryption of a digital device. During the 1807 treason trial of Aaron Burr, with Chief Justice John Marshall presiding, the government asked Burr\u2019s private secretary if he knew the cipher to an encrypted letter Burr had sent to a co-conspirator. Burr\u2019s secretary pled the Fifth, leading to an extensive debate on the meaning of the privilege and an opinion from the Chief Justice. The Burr dispute presents a remarkable opportunity to unearth the original understanding of the Fifth Amendment and its application to surprisingly modern facts.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America&#8217;s Highest Court<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-886 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/shapiro-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/shapiro-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/shapiro-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/shapiro-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/shapiro-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/shapiro-740x740.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/shapiro-980x980.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Wednesday September 23rd | 3:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Shapiro, CATO Institute<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Shapiro, director of the Cato Institute&#8217;s Center for Constitutional Studies, takes readers inside the unknown history of fiercely partisan judicial nominations and explores reform proposals that could return the Supreme Court to its proper constitutional role. Confirmation battles over justices will only become more toxic and unhinged as long as the Court continues to ratify the excesses of the other two branches of government and the parties that control them. Only when the Court begins to rebalance constitutional order, curb administrative overreach, and return power back to the states will the bitter partisan war to control the judiciary finally end.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">The Historical Origins of Judicial Religious Exemptions<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-884 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/stephanie_barclay-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/stephanie_barclay-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/stephanie_barclay-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/stephanie_barclay-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/stephanie_barclay.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\">Friday September 4th | 3:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Professor Stephanie Barclay, Notre Dame Law<\/p>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\">The Supreme Court has recently expressed a renewed interest in the question of when the Free Exercise Clause requires exemptions from generally applicable laws. Conventional wisdom holds that judicially created exemptions would have been a new or extraordinary means of protecting religious exercise. This Article, however, questions that assumption. Though the judiciary did not always use modern language of exemptions, this was functionally what judges were doing on a large scale throughout the country and<br \/>\nacross a host of personal rights. The mode of analysis courts used to create these equitable exemptions also provides an important historical antecedent for modern strict scrutiny analysis<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2019-2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"seo_h1_tag2\" class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Exclusive Book Preview<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\">Tuesday, September 17, 2019 | 12 PM \u2013 1:30 PM<br \/>\nJoin leading Constitutional Law experts Professor Randy Barnett and Professor Josh Blackman as they discuss their new book, <em>An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"seo_h1_tag3\" class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Surprising Originalism<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\">Tuesday, October 8, 2019 |12 PM \u2013 1:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>Join Constitutional Legal Theorist Larry Solum (GULC) for a discussion on the theory of originalism. His series of articles on constitutional originalism have shaped contemporary thinking about the great debate between originalism and constitutional theory.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 id=\"seo_h1_tag4\" class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Exclusive Book Preview<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\">Tuesday, October 22, 2019 |12 PM \u2013 1:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>Join Professor Cashin, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice as she discusses her new book, <em>From Slavery to Jim Crow to Dark Ghettos: A Case for Reparation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 id=\"seo_h1_tag5\" class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Coming to Originalism<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\">Wednesday, November 6, 2019 | 3:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this talk, Professor Erica Goldberg (Dayton) chronicles how she came to originalism and how historical methods of understanding the First Amendment yield surprising and important results. Her work-in-progress argues that common law baselines should be accounted for in our interpretation of \u201cthe freedom of speech.\u201d Incorporating common law baselines into free speech jurisprudence better aligns our current doctrine with the original meaning of \u201cthe freedom of speech,\u201d even though most believe free speech jurisprudence has strayed far from the original intentions of the drafters of the First Amendment. Normatively, this incorporation of common law baselines will lend greater clarity and neutrality to First Amendment jurisprudence and will help judges understand which harms should be accounted for in free speech doctrine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_5xhp fsm fwn fcg\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 id=\"seo_h1_tag6\" class=\"_5gmx\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-event-name\">Movie Screening: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_2ycp _5xhk\">Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | 7 PM \u2013 10 PM<\/p>\n<p>The Center is sponsoring a free screening of the documentary<em> Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words<\/em> at the Georgetown AMC. 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