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Is Administrative Law Just a Species of Constitutional Law?: April 10
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe field of administrative law focuses first and foremost on normatively freighted, politically salient issues of constitutional law. Its overriding concern is how power should be allocated among the highest-level institutions in the federal government: the Supreme Court, the President, and Congress. Although this makes administrative law important and exciting, it obscures the on-the-ground realities […]
Orwell’s Last Fortress of Freedom: Human Brain in the Age of Neurotechnology: April 22
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesEarlier this year, the Constitutional Law Center hosted NYU’s Barry Friedman who discussed how government authorities are using artificial intelligence to make sense of the vast amount of data collected on all of us, presenting intimate pictures of our lives. Professor Friedman credited George Orwell with foreseeing this in his dystopian novel, 1984. But Orwell […]
Pierce v. Society of Sisters: The 100th Anniversary: May 2
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, United StatesMarking the centennial of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, our annual conference will investigate the history, doctrinal contributions, and ongoing issues raised by this landmark opinion. Panels will consider Pierce’s key tensions: between the state and families, children and parents, secular and religious spheres, and liberty and equality (or individual rights and pluralism). Whether rightly […]
International Human Rights Law, Social Media, & Content Moderation: May 6
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesConstitutional Conversation with Professor Evelyn Mary Aswad. What does international human rights law (IHRL) have to do with U.S. social media companies? How can it help social media platforms resist governmental pressure to censor speech as well as provide a principled lens for assessing a platform’s own content rules? What are IHRL’s limitations in this […]
Genealogy in Constitutional Law: May 13
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesConstitutional Conversation with Charles Tyler. Genealogies are arguments that seek to discredit social phenomena by exposing their pernicious ancestry. While these arguments are often associated with critical theory, the Supreme Court has recently used genealogy to undermine key provisions of written law, doctrinal rules, longstanding practices, and private conduct in cases involving a wide range […]