constitutional studies

Levinson to Lead ICH Summer Workshop

March 22, 2012 04:30

Our friends at the Institute for Constitutional History have announced an Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop for Junior Faculty, to be held July 8-14, 2012, at Stanford, California, entitled “Assessing the US Constitution: Twenty-first-Century Responses to Eighteenth-Century Assumptions.”  The...

Legal History in the News: The Importance of Wickard

March 21, 2012 01:07

Today's New York Times has a great piece about the importance of Wickard v. Filburn (1942) for current legal challenges to the Obama administration's health care reform legislation. Here's a taste:If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it...

Snyder and Barrett on Rehnquist's Lost Letter

March 20, 2012 12:50

Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin Law School, and John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law, have posted Rehnquist's Missing Letter: A Former Law Clerk's 1955 Thoughts on Justice Jackson and Brown, which will appear in the Boston College Law Review 53 (2012).  Here is the...

Nelson, "A Critical Guide to Erie . . ."

March 17, 2012 04:30

Caleb Nelson, University of Virginia School of Law, has posted A Critical Guide to Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, which appears in William & Mary Law Review 54 (2012). Here is the abstract:Library of CongressThis paper--part of William & Mary's recent symposium on "Law Without a Lawmaker"--...

Born in the USA: The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Historical Perspective

March 16, 2012 18:00

Here is the schedule for what promises to be a world-class conference, Born in the USA: The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Historical Perspective, to be held March 29-30, 2012, at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.  The conference is free, and no registration is...