The Second Founding: Reconstruction and America’s First Struggle for Racial Equality
4:45-5:00 PM | Dinner
5:00-6:00 PM | Lecture
This talk, based on Professor Wurman’s book The Second Founding, will explore the nation’s first civil rights struggle that culminated in the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and the surprising meanings of the amendment’s guarantees of due process, the equal protection of the laws, and the privileges and immunities of citizenship.
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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Ilan Wurman Ilan Wurman is an associate professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he teaches administrative law and constitutional law. He writes primarily on the Fourteenth Amendment, administrative law, separation of powers, and constitutionalism. His academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Minnesota Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Texas Law Review among other journals. He is also the author of A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge 2017), and The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge 2020). |
