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The Center is thrilled to kick off the Fall 2022 Student Fellows Program. We had standing room only turnout for our first event with Professor Aziz Huq of Chicago Law. https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/fellows-scholars/student-fellows/
Constitutional Law Litigator Alexa Gervasi (L’16) Returns to the Georgetown Center for the Constitution as its Executive Director.
Welcome back, Alexa!
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/constitutional-law-litigator-alexa-gervasi-returns-to-georgetown-center-constitution-as-executive-director/
The Georgetown Center for the Constitution welcomes Alexa L. Gervasi as the Center’s Executive Director. She previously served as the Center’s first Program Manager while she was also a student in Georgetown Law’s evening program. After earning her JD from Georgetown Law, she worked as an asso...
Applications are open for the 2022 Originalism Summer Seminar and close on Friday, February 4th. To learn more about the program and how to apply, please visit https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/originalism-summer-seminar/originalism-summer-seminar/.
Through lectures by the nation’s preeminent originalist scholars and litigators, luncheon discussions, and visits to the United States Supreme Court, the Originalism Summer Seminar--a “Boot Camp” on the Theory and Practice of Originalism--exposes elite law students and recent graduates to stat...
The Center invites you to join a virtual book talk on Wednesday, December 8 about "Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish v. West Coast Hotel Company" with Dr. Helen J. Knowles and the Supreme Court Historical Society.
https://supremecourthistory.org/event-2021-1208-making-minimum-wage-elsie-parrish-west-coast-hotel-company/
Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish v. The West Coast Hotel Company — A Lecture by Helen Knowles December 8, 2021 | 12:00 p.m. EST A virtual lecture via Zoom Helen Knowles is an Associate Professor of History at Oswego State University of New York. She received her Ph.D. from Boston […]
Attention Georgetown Law J.D. Students: Applications for the 2022-2023 Bradley Fellowship will open on December 18, 2021. For more details on how to apply, visit https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/fellows-scholars/bradley-fellows-program/how-to-apply/
Watch Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor deliver the Eighth Annual Salmon P. Chase Lecture cosponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ehkD_OQYw
The Case of the Dishonest Scrivener: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of the Federalist Constitution. On Wednesday evening at 6PM on November 17, 2021, Dea...
Registration for the Student Fellows Program (Fall 2021) is now live! https://forms.gle/d3R29tXHYSvPwRbd9 Georgetown Law
Please RSVP for the Fall 2021 Student Fellows Program Below. All of our events will be in person and lunch is provided. To qualify as a Student Fellow, attendance at three Fall events is required. (If you have a class conflict, please indicate this in the fields below). To learn more about the Georg...
Watch the recording of the Eighth Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture with Martha S. Jones of Johns Hopkins University. Co-sponsored with the Supreme Court Historical Society. Georgetown Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8FRXEuT1eg
On Thursday evening April 22, 2021, Professor Martha S. Jones of Johns Hopkins University delivered the Eighth Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture c...
The Seventh Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture with , co-hosted with the Supreme Court Historical Society. is this Thursday at 7:00 PM. Register at: https://bit.ly/3bjG2fQ Georgetown Law
Together with the Supreme Court Historical Society, the Center sponsors the annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture and Faculty Colloquium to commemorate important anniversaries and neglected figures in our constitutional history. On Thursday evening April 22nd, 2021, Professor Martha Jones of....
Today, the Center hosted the Fourth Annual Thomas M. Cooley Faculty Symposium honoring for his book, No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding (Harvard University Press, 2018).
We are excited to announce the 2021-2022 cohort of Bradley Fellows: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/fellows-scholars/bradley-fellows-program/
The Bradley Fellows Program will award fellowships to J.D. degree-seeking students: 1L, 2L, 1E, 2E, and 3E (who will be enrolled both semesters of their 4E year) students with an interest in originalism and the Constitution.
On behalf of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and the Federalist Society, we are writing to announce that the 2021 Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture on March 31st, 2021 with Judge Rao has been postponed until the event can be safely held in person. We will make an announcement once a new date has been selected.
Thank you for your continued support of our work. We look forward to hosting this event in the future.
Registration for the Seventh Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture with Martha S. Jones is now open. Co-hosted with the Supreme Court Historical Society.
https://bit.ly/3bjG2fQ
Together with the Supreme Court Historical Society, the Center sponsors the annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture and Faculty Colloquium to commemorate important anniversaries and neglected figures in our constitutional history. On Thursday evening April 22nd, 2021, Professor Martha Jones of....
Applications for the 2021 Originalism Summer Seminar are now open. Please visit our website for more information on how to apply. Applications close February 7, 2021. https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/originalism-summer-seminar/originalism-summer-seminar/
Through lectures by the nation’s preeminent originalist scholars and litigators, luncheon discussions, and visits to the United States Supreme Court, the Originalism Summer Seminar--a “Boot Camp” on the Theory and Practice of Originalism--exposes elite law students and recent graduates to stat...
The Center is now accepting applications for the 2021-2022 Bradley Fellows Program. https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/fellows-scholars/bradley-fellows-program/ Georgetown Law
The Bradley Fellows Program will award six fellowships to J.D. degree-seeking students: 1L, 2L, 1E, 2E, and 3E (who will be enrolled both semesters of their 4E year) students with an interest in originalism and the Constitution.
Registration is open for the 2021 Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture.
https://fedsoc.org/events/2021-thomas-m-cooley-judicial-lecture
Mar 31 2021 Wednesday 7:00 p.m. EST Sponsors: Washington DC Lawyers Chapter • DC Student Chapter • Georgetown Law Student Chapter Georgetown University Center for the Constitution600 New Jersey Ave NWWashington, D.C., DC 20001 Register
And that wraps up the 2020 Fall Speaker Series! Thanks to all our lecturers and congratulations to the
students who qualified as Student Fellows.
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Don't miss our next Lawyers as Leaders session tomorrow, Wednesday, October 28th at 11:00 EDT.
In this virtual program Dean William M. Treanor will interview Randy Barnett about his life and career, with a focus on his litigation of the cases Gonzales v. Raich, regarding medical cannabis, and NFIB v. Sibelius, regarding the Affordable Care Act. Barnett serves as the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory and Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
View the session tomorrow here: https://bit.ly/2TAMEwd
Just released: new YouTube playlist featuring The Federalist Society videos by https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRnqTu97xEwQzQ4wKQxrJUlgW4QY-3b_1
Congratulations to Nonresident Scholar Professor John Stinneford for his article "Is Solitary Confinement a Punishment?" 115 Nw. U. L. Rev. 9 (2020), which was chosen as the lead article for the law review's symposium "Rethinking Solitary Confinement." https://northwesternlawreview.org/
Featured Article The Superfluous Fifteenth Amendment? By: Travis Crum | April 19, 2020 This Article starts a conversation about reorienting voting rights doctrine toward the Fifteenth Amendment. In advancing this claim, I explore an unappreciated debate—the “Article V debate”—in the Fortieth...
100 years ago on August 18th 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of s*x.
This Spring, Professor Martha Jones will deliver the seventh annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture at the Supreme Court commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment.
The fourth annual Thomas Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 is awarded to Sean Wilentz of Princeton University
for his book, "No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding" https://bit.ly/33d9bW7
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WASHINGTON – The Georgetown Center for the Constitution announced it will award its fourth annual Thomas Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 to Professor Sean Wilentz of Princeton University for his book, No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding (Harvard University Press, 20...
In the spirit of the 4th of July holiday weekend: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/07/04/what-the-declaration-of-independence-really-claimed/
An excerpt from "Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Sovereignty of the People."
New lectures have been added to the Originalism Seminar Podcast! https://bit.ly/2YHBxUA
Stare Decisis: Barnett and Solum
Originalist Sources: Campbell
Construction: Bernick
Cruel and Unusual: Stinneford
Recordings from the 2019 and 2020 Originalism Summer Seminar sponsored by the Georgetown Center for the Constitution at the Georgetown University Law Center.
NEW PUBLICATION: "The Life and Writings of Salmon P. Chase" is the sixth book of the Constitutional Discourse Series and is available for purchase at: https://amzn.to/2MMNlPL
A look into the life and writings of Salmon Portland Chase: 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 Life and Writings of Salmon P. Chase (Constitutional Discourse)
And that's a wrap! Thank you to our students and lecturers for making the 2020 Originalism Summer Seminar a great success.
Listen to the lectures on our podcast at: https://bit.ly/2TEZxFY
Each summer, the Center brings together judges and constitutional law scholars for a deep dive into the origins of originalism, criticisms of originalism, permutations of originalism, originalism in practice, and other related topics. The Originalism Podcast curates content from our seminar programm...
Congratulations to the six students selected for the 2020-2021 Bradley Fellowship! https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/fellows-scholars/bradley-fellows-program/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] The 2020 Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture has been postponed.
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The 2020 Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture & Book Prize will be March 19 at Georgetown Law. This year's lecture features the Hon. Neomi Rao and will be followed by a reception. The event is free & open to the public. Registration is required at: https://bit.ly/39mKHtI
Tomorrow at 2PM is Agency Deference after Kisor v. Wilkie feat. the Hon. Laurence Silberman. Co-sponsored by the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy and the Federalist Society Georgetown Law Student Chapter.
Thank you to everyone who came for the screening of Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. A special thanks to the filmmakers, Michael and Gina Pack, for hosting a live Q&A with our audience. For more information about the documentary visit https://www.justicethomasmovie.com/
The Center is sponsoring a free screening of the documentary Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words on Wednesday 2/26 at the Georgetown AMC. Ticket reservation required by Monday 2/24 at: https://forms.gle/foeJSPzkLYNGGGHq8
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Professor Randy Barnett joined Fox News and Mark Levin to discuss constitutional law through the lens of impeachment.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6131079397001?playlist_id=5736530682001#sp=show-clips
Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett joins Mark Levin to discuss constitutional law through the lens of impeachment.
Attention Georgetown Law Students: The Bradley Fellows Program is now accepting applications! Deadline to apply is February 7, 2020. https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/fellows-scholars/bradley-fellows-program/
The Bradley Fellows Program will award six fellowships to J.D. degree-seeking students: 1L, 2L, 1E, 2E, and 3E (who will be enrolled both semesters of their 4E year) students with an interest in originalism and the Constitution.
Top law students, PhD students, and recent graduates are invited to apply for the week-long Originalism Summer Seminiar in Washington D.C. Learn state-of-the art originalist theory & practice--as well as criticisms of originalism--from preeminent scholars and jurists.
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/originalism-summer-seminar/originalism-summer-seminar/
Through lectures by the nation’s preeminent originalist scholars and litigators, luncheon discussions, and visits to the United States Supreme Court, the Originalism Summer Seminar--a “Boot Camp” on the Theory and Practice of Originalism--exposes elite law students and recent graduates to stat...
Last week the Center hosted the 2019 Salmon P. Chase Lecture & Faculty Colloquium commemorating the 200th Anniversary of McCulloch v. Maryland. Special thanks to our paper authors and our distinguished lecturer, Sanford Levinson, for his talk at the Supreme Court.
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