Events
Notice Regarding Events
SLS has limited on-campus events for the Stanford Community. Registered attendees for in person and virtual events have/will receive emails with details. Please check the SLS Calendar for the current list of scheduled events.
The Second Amendment After Bruen
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAIn 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court upended generations of firearm control laws in the case New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen. After Bruen, gun laws will be invalidated […]
In Defense of Strict Scrutiny
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAConstitutional Conversation with Professor Stephanie Barclay Is strict scrutiny consistent with originalism? And can strict scrutiny be implemented without involving judicial balancing? Professor Stephanie Barclay will argue yes on both […]
Judicial Review in Times of Emergency: From the Founding through the COVID-19 Pandemic
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAWhether deferring to President Lincoln’s blockade at the start of the Civil War, a state’s suspension of creditors’ remedies during the Great Depression, or President’s Roosevelt’s evacuation and mass incarceration of Japanese Americans in the West during World War II, the Supreme Court has regularly permitted the political branches wide discretion to manage national emergencies, […]
Race, Originalism, and Affirmative Action
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin SLS Professor Michael McConnell and UVA Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui in conversation, moderated by SLS Professor Richard Banks, as they consider the role of history and the original meaning of the Constitution in deciding contested questions of constitutional interpretation with respect to race. Speakers will examine claims about how history does and should bear on […]
Constitutional Conversation with Phillip Hamburger
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAA Constitutional Conversation with Phillip Hamburger. 4:45-5:00 PM | Dinner 5:00-6:00 PM | Lecture
Constitutional Conversation with Jorge Barrera Rojas
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAA Constitutional Conversation with Jorge Barrera Rojas.
Publius Symposium with Jacob Mchangama: Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAHailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. In Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, […]
Constitutional Conversation with Evelyn Aswad
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAA Constitutional Conversation with Professor Evelyn Aswad. 4:45-5:00 PM | Dinner 5:00-6:00 PM | Lecture This event is being recorded and will be available on the Constitutional Law Center’s YouTube page a few days after the event.
The Second Founding: Reconstruction and America’s First Struggle for Racial Equality
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA4:45-5:00 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 […]
Constitutional Law Spring Conference
@ SLS: Multiple Rooms Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAConstitutional Law Center Spring Conference 2024 May 17th at Stanford Law School, Room 290 May 18th at Paul Brest Hall, Stanford Campus