Is the Constitution more than America’s primary legal document? The idea of a plan of government being contained in a written document is so taken for granted that it is rarely noted and seldom seen ...

The Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture at Saint Louis University School of Law brought together legal scholars and practitioners on October 25, 2024, to explore constitutional interpretation in ...

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In the face of irreversible climate tipping points and the failure of statutory law to control carbon dioxide pollution, youth around the world are suing their governments to act before it is too late ...

One of the greatest honors of my career has been receiving the inaugural 2022 Edwin Meese III Originalism Award. My lecture was titled Originalism and Stare Decisis in the Lower Courts. The winners in ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. on Sept. 27 gave the inaugural lecture for a new project on constitutional originalism at the Catholic University of America's law school, which is being ...

Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch is the keynote speaker for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s 14th annual Dr. Richard Gruetzemacher Constitution Day Lecture Series, taking place at 6:30 p.m. next ...

Originalism’s politico-theoretical premises are hostile to the premises undergirding the administrative state and living constitutionalism. The concentration of lawmaking power into the hands of the ...

The Department of Law, University of Dhaka organised a public lecture titled "Do We Need a New Constitution?" on 2 September 2024. This timely lecture was held keeping in mind the ongoing debate on ...

Originalists and living constitutionalists have been hammering away at each other for decades. But, up until recently, most living constitutionalists at least agreed that originalism qualifies as a ...

Liberal constitutional theory rests on a fundamental division between duty-bearing public institutions and the rights-wielding private persons. This inaugural lecture will explore the implications of ...

Dhaka University’s Faculty of Law on Wednesday hosted a special lecture titled “Constitutional Law and Democratic Backsliding” at the Nawab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban auditorium. Professor Tom ...