Natural Rights at the Founding
4:45-5:00 PM | Dinner
5:00-6:00 PM | Lecture
Although no longer a part of our constitutional discourse, natural rights were central to American rights jurisprudence for well over a century. This talk will explore how the Founders thought about natural rights – where natural rights came from, what role they played in the constitutional design, and who got to define and enforce them – and why understanding that history remains relevant today.
This event is being recorded and will be available on the Constitutional Law Center’s YouTube page a few days after the event.
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Jud Campbell Jud Campbell joined the faculty of Stanford Law School in 2023. He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and as a visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and at Harvard Law School. His academic focus is constitutional history and First Amendment law. His publications include articles in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Texas Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, and Law and History Review. After completing his J.D. at Stanford Law School, he clerked for Judge Diane S. Sykes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and for Judge José A. Cabranes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then served as the Executive Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and two master’s degrees from the London School of Economics, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. |
