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5:45pm – 6:00pm – Dinner
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Discussion
Stanford Law School, room 95
Should the Constitution be interpreted according to its original meaning? Or is such a mode of interpretation–commonly known as “originalism”–allowing the dead to bind the living? Join Ilan Wurman, Constitutional Law Center fellow and author of A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism, for a primer on the theory of originalism and a conversation about its pros and cons.
Ilan Wurman
Ilan Wurman is a Nonresident Fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center and an attorney in Washington, D.C. He was formerly deputy general counsel on Senator Rand Paul’s US presidential campaign, associate counsel on Senator Tom Cotton’s campaign for US Senate, and a law clerk to the honorable Jerry E. Smith of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. To view Ilan Wurman’s full bio, click here. |