5:45pm – 6:00pm – Dinner
6:00pm – 7:30pm – Discussion
Stanford Law School, Room 190

This event is free and open to the public

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Each year, the Stanford Constitutional Law Center hosts the Publius Symposium, which celebrates a notable recent book in constitutional law. This year, we are proud to co-host the symposium with the Stanford Center for Law and History to honor a book of profound importance: The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era, by Stanford History professor Jonathan Gienapp.

With a deep appreciation of the historical materials, Gienapp’s book tells a story of just how unsettled the American constitutional experiment actually was during the first several decades of the republic. In the process, it highlights little-known aspects of founding era history and also offers provocative challenges to various modes of constitutional interpretation, including originalism. Please join an all-star cast for a discussion which promises to be of interest to constitutionalists, historians, and political theorists alike.

	Jonathan Gienapp Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University To view Jonathan Gienapp’s full bio, click here.
	Bernadette Meyler Professor of Law, Stanford University To view Bernadette Meyler’s full bio, click here.
	Saikrishna Prakash Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law To view Saikrishna Prakash’s full bio, click here.
	Jack Rakove Professor of History and American Studies, Stanford Center for Law and History;  Professor by courtesy of Law, Stanford Law School To view Jack Rakove’s full bio, click here.
	Amalia D. Kessler Professor of International Legal Studies, Stanford University; Professor by courtesy of History and Director, Stanford Center for Law and History To view Amalia D. Kessler’s full bio, click here.