Watch the event The New York Times calls Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice “a winning memoir that recounts the remarkable career of a civil rights lawyer who succeeded Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the nation’s second most powerful court.” Inspired to attend law school by the idealism of the 1960s, Judge Tatel spent the first chapter […]

Watch the event Constitutional originalism stakes law to history. The theory’s core tenet—that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning—asks us to decide questions of modern constitutional law by consulting the distant constitutional past. Now that a majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court champion originalism, history is being called […]

Watch the event One of the most important legal reform movements of the twentieth century, the law and economics approach developed in the 1950s, most famously at the University of Chicago.  Focused on institutions, ideas, and personalities, this talk covers the first efforts to apply economic logic to legal problems and the development of this […]

You are cordially invited to the Hoover Institution and Stanford Constitutional Law Center's The Meese Revolution: The Making of a Constitutional Moment,on Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. in the Shultz Auditorium in the George Shultz Building at the Hoover Institution.

Watch the event Constitutional Conversation with Barry Friedman In a way George Orwell—the author of the dystopian surveillance novel, 1984—tried to capture but never could actually have imagined, policing authorities are collecting vast amounts of information on all of us. Artificial intelligence is being used to make sense of this massive data grab, capable of […]

Constitutional Conversation with Stephanie Barclay 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm | Dinner served 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Lecture Is strict scrutiny consistent with originalism? And can strict scrutiny be implemented without involving judicial balancing? My lecture will argue yes on both fronts, offering a different conceptual framework for thinking about the protection of […]

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Lecture 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Reception with book sales and signing in Cooley Courtyard In the more than 230 years since the Constitution took effect, the constitutional law governing the conduct of foreign affairs has evolved significantly. But that evolution did not come through formal amendments or […]

On July 15, 2024, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the federal criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump for his alleged unlawful retention of national security documents in his residence at Mar-a-Lago. Judge Cannon based the dismissal on the unprecedented conclusion that Special Counsel Jack Smith's appointment by the Attorney General violated the Appointments Clause […]