Constitutional Law
The Constitutional Law Colloquium is part of a thriving public law program at Northwestern University School of Law. Activities include scholarly conferences and speakers at faculty workshops, as well as colloquia on positive political theory, international law, and constitutional law.
In an effort to expand the depth and quality of legal research in Constitutional Law, Northwestern Law has invited leading scholars from across the country to participate in the Fall 2011 Constitutional Law Colloquium Series, which has been organized by Professors Tonja Jacobi and James Pfander.
This year's colloquium will explore a wide range of topics and methodologies, featuring both the theory and practice of constitutional interpretation. Students and faculty will meet with the visiting scholars to exchange views and comment on working papers. Presenters will receive valuable feedback and suggestions for how to expand or improve their research, and Northwestern Law students and faculty will gain a broader understanding of the relation of constitutional law and theory.
Fall 2011
September 13
Elizabeth Magill, Vice Dean and Joseph Weintraub-Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
"Beyond Capture"
September 27
Juan Perea, Loyola-Chicago
"Race and Constitutional Law: On Recognizing the Proslavery Constitution"
October 11
Jamal Greene, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
"Fourteenth Amendment Originalism"
October 25
Amanda Tyler, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
"The Forgotten Core Meaning of the Suspension Clause"
November 8
Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School
"Confronting Modern Case Law: America's "Warrented" Constitution"
November 22
Gerard Magliocca, University of Indiana
"Constitutional Liability Rules"
Spring 2011
January 18
Kurt T. Lash, Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
"The Origins of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Part II: John Bingham and the Second Draft of the Fourteenth Amendment"
February 1
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
February 15
Alison LaCroix, Professor of Law, University of Chicago School of Law
"Federalists, Federalism, & Federal Jurisdiction"
March 1
Thomas Colby, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
"The Sacrifice Of The New Originalism"
March 29
Jack M. Balkin, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
"Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World, Chapters 3-5"
April 12
Richard Epstein, Professor of Law, N.Y.U. School of Law & University of Chicago School of Law
Spring 2010
January 19
Richard Fallon, Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
"Jurisdiction-Stripping Reconsidered"
February 2
Gillian Metzger, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
"Ordinary Administrative Law as Constitutional Common Law"
March 2
Brad Clark, William Cranch Research Professor of Law, George Washington Law School
"The Eleventh Amendment and the Nature of the Union"
March 30
Adam Cox, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
"Reconsidering Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering"
April 13
Lawrence B. Solum, John E. Cribbet Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois College of Law
"The Interpretation-Construction Distinction"
Spring 2009
January 20
Steven G. Calabresi, George C. Dix Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
"Individual Rights Under State Constitutions when the Fourteenth Amendment Was Ratified in 1868: What Rights Are Deeply Rooted in American History and Tradition?" co-authored with Sarah E. Agudo
February 3
Robert W. Bennett, Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
"Constitutional Originalism and Living Constitutionalism"
February 17
Adam Samaha, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
"Randomization in Adjudication"
March 3
David Fontana, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
"Government in Opposition"
March 31
John F. Manning, Bruce Bromley Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
"Federalism and the Generality Problem in Constitutional Interpretation"
April 14
Vicki C. Jackson, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center
