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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 @GeorgetownLaw
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
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Just released: new YouTube playlist featuring The Federalist Society videos by @RandyEBarnett 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 sex.
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.
Professor Barnett and the Bradley Fellows attended the Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner at the 2019 National Lawyers Convention of The Federalist Society. They had the chance to hear from many notable speakers including: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, American Legal Scholar Richard Epstein, and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
As part of the Student Fellows program, Professor Erica Goldberg, a Visiting Scholar with the Center, presented on "Coming to Originalism." Watch her talk on the First Amendment here.
https://youtu.be/EbuDFLFnXYc
In this talk, Professor Goldberg (Dayton) chronicles how she came to originalism and how historical methods of understanding the First Amendment yield surpri...
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Annual Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 is Professor Keith Whittington for his book Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present.
Our official press release: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-laws-center-for-the-constitution-selects-princeton-professors-book-on-judicial-review-for-cooley-book-prize/
Keith E. Whittington will receive the third annual Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 at March 2020 symposium exploring his book.
Happy Halloween from the Center staff and Dean Treanor! 🖤💀🎃
Thank you to Professor Cashin and everyone who came out for the discussion of her forthcoming book on slavery, Jim Crow, and reparations as part of the 2019 Student Fellows Program.
Prof. Cashin speaking on her ambitious book project covering slavery, Jim Crow, and a case for reparations.
Thank you to Professor Solum and everyone who came out for his talk on "Surprising Originalism" as part of the 2019 Student Fellows Program.
Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett, South Texas Law Professor Josh Blackman Launch “100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know”
Want to brush up on the most significant cases in Supreme Court history? Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett and Professor Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law have published a book and video series that just might change the way students study constitutional law.
To celebrate Constitution Day, Professors Barnett and Blackman gave a talk on their new book and video lecture series on constitutional law. Watch to see an exclusive preview of their innovative approach to learning featuring the case Gonzales vs Raich.
Professor Randy Barnett and Professor Josh Blackman discuss their new book: "An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should K...
"Want to brush up on the most significant cases in Supreme Court history? Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett and Professor Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law have published a book and video series that just might change the way students study constitutional law."
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-law-professor-randy-barnett-south-texas-law-professor-josh-blackman-launch-100-supreme-court-cases-everyone-should-know/
Want to brush up on the most significant cases in Supreme Court history? Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett and Professor Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law have published a book and video series that just might change the way students study constitutional law.
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