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.
Natural Rights at the Founding
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA5:00-6:00 PM | Lecture 6:00-7:00 PM | Reception Although no longer a part of our constitutional discourse, natural rights were central to American rights jurisprudence for well over a century. […]
Lunch with Stephen Bright, Longtime Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, on “The Fear of Too Much Justice”
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin Stephen Bright, longtime director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, in Atlanta, Georgia, as he discusses his work in the areas of capital punishment, indigent criminal legal defense, racial discrimination in the criminal legal system, conditions and practices in prisons and jails, judicial independence, and his new book (with co-author James Kwak), The Fear […]
Constitutionalism without a Constitution: the Israeli Case
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CALike Britain and New Zealand, Israel lacks a fully codified constitution. For 75 years it has relied on informal norms, a series of Basic Laws, and a strong legal culture to provide the country with “constitutionalism without a constitution”. But has political polarization exhausted Israel's ability to accommodate differences within its existing constitutional framework? What […]
Does Section 3 Trump the Voters?
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA5:00-6:30 PM | Lecture 6:30-7:30 PM | Reception In a forthcoming article, William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen seek to "set[] forth the full sweep and force of Section Three" of […]
Who Am I to Judge?: Judicial Craft versus Constitutional Theory
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAWatch the event Senators at recent confirmation hearings have asked nominees about their commitments to originalism and their judicial philosophies. This lecture, based on a forthcoming book, argues that we should shift our focus. Retrospectively examining “great” Supreme Court justices and “strong” (and “weak”) Supreme Courts, I suggest that we should be looking for justices […]
Supreme Court Roundup and Preview
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAWatch the event Join Easha Anand, co-director of Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Michael Mongan ('06), California Solicitor General, and Erin Murphy, partner at Clement & Murphy, to review the most important Supreme Court cases of the past year and look ahead to the year to come. This event is being recorded and […]
George Washington’s Jewish Letters and the Creation of a Constitutional Republic
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CAView the event As president of the Constitutional Convention, and as president of the nascent United States, Washington received several letters from members of the tiny American Jewish community. These […]
Affirmative Action: SLS Faculty Analyze the Supreme Court’s Ruling
OnlineWatch the event Join Stanford Law School faculty for a panel discussion about the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated decision in a pair of cases about affirmative action, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Presidents & Fellows of Harvard College. They will assess what the opinion means […]
Text and (What Kind of) History?: CLC Spring Conference
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CAConstitutional Law Center Spring Conference 2023 Text and history were front and center in many controversial and consequential Supreme Court opinions last term, and will be pivotal in the Roberts Court’s evolving jurisprudence. This emphasis reinvigorates and reshapes fundamental questions that have dominated methodological and substantive debates about constitutional interpretation over the past half century. […]
Our Common Purpose: A Strategy for Renovating American Democracy in the 21st Century: A Constitutional Conversation with Prof. Danielle Allen
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAWatch the event
What Does Originalism Have To Do With Civil Procedure? A Constitutional Conversation with Mila Sohoni
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAWatch the event Constitutional Conversation with Mila Sohoni On a daily basis, lawyers and judges consult and apply the rules of subject matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction. These doctrines—the workhorses of civil procedural law—ostensibly spring from the Constitution’s text, but their substance owes more to considerations of fairness, efficiency, and sound policy than it does to original meaning. Indeed, […]
TikTok Bans & The First Amendment: A Constitutional Conversation with Evelyn Douek
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAWatch the event Last week, Montana became the first state to pass a bill banning the social media app TikTok, but this is just the latest law in a rapidly escalating trend of measures against the Chinese-owned platform. Only belatedly has there been much conversation about the First Amendment challenges such laws will face—which, unsurprisingly, […]
Ensuring Free and Fair Elections: A Comparative View of the Mexican Experience
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAListen to the Event Constitutional conversation with Pamela San Martín. Mexico has one of the most sophisticated sets of electoral procedures. With stringent rules around the use of money and expedited accountability mechanisms, control over TV and radio propaganda, a national electoral census, and a system of randomly selected citizens who staff polling stations and […]
The Original Ratifiers’ Theory of Officer Accountability
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAAS OF 2/24/23 THE EVENT IS CANCELLED. ---- Constitutional Conversation with Professor Jennifer Mascott 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm | Dinner served 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Lecture * This event will be recorded and made available on the Stanford Constitutional Law YouTube Channel a few days after the event. The understanding of the individuals […]
Publius Symposium with Alison LaCroix: The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Dinner 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm | Lecture * This event will be recorded and made available on the Stanford Constitutional Law YouTube Channel […]
Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAConstitutional Conversation with Thomas Berg Religious liberty, a basic constitutional value, is now among the key issues on which many Americans are polarized politically and culturally. As Thomas Berg will argue, many conservatives have supported government discrimination and penalties against Muslims, and on the other side, many progressives have dismissed even strong religious-liberty claims by […]
How To Choose A Theory of Constitutional Interpretation
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CAView the event In moral and political philosophy, some people emphasize the importance of searching for “reflective equilibrium,” in which (broadly speaking) general principles align with convictions about particular cases, and vice-versa. There is a close analogue in constitutional law; the search for reflective equilibrium plays a central role. Some theories of constitutional interpretation seem […]
Silencing of the Lambs: How Administrative Suppression of Speech and Information and Other Deprivations of Civil Liberties Helped to Create the Leviathan
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAThe last several years have been an exciting time to litigate constraints on administrative power. Long-neglected doctrines such as non-delegation (Gundy 2018), appointments (Lucia 2018), federal jurisdiction to hear challenges to administrative judging (Cochran and Axon 2022 term) and the Supreme Court’s recent insistence that major questions must be decided by Congress, not administrative agencies […]
Supreme Court Roundup and Preview
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Lecture 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Reception in Crocker
The Constitution in Jeopardy: The Futures of Constitutional Amendment in the Twenty-first Century
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Lecture 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Reception in Crocker with book sales and signing Russ Feingold, an affiliate of the Constitutional Law Center and a former U.S. Senator and Stanford Law professor, and Peter Prindiville ('21), a non-resident fellow at the Center, return to Stanford to discuss their […]
The Fifth Circuit’s Social Media Ruling: A Conversation with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and Daphne Keller
OnlineJoin FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and Daphne Keller, Director of Program on Platform Regulation at the Cyber Policy Center, as they discuss the Fifth Circuit’s recent opinion upholding a Texas law preventing social media companies from certain forms of content moderation, the opinion’s First Amendment implications, and what the ruling means for the future of […]
Medellín v. Texas and International Law in US Courts – Who decides?
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAIn the 1900 Supreme Court case The Paquette Habana, the Supreme Court declared “International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of […]
Constitution Day Lecture: Democracy and American Institutions
@ Stanford: Dinkelspiel Auditorium 471 Lagunita Dr., Stanford, CAConstitution Day Lecture with Condoleezza Rice 66th U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, will discuss how we create and sustain democracy through hard work, persistence, historical context, strong institutions, and […]
Histories of Presidential Power
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CAJoin us for the Stanford Constitutional Law Center Spring Conference It is no surprise that an unprecedented Presidency in the United States should be an occasion for new thinking about the design of Article II of the U.S. Constitution and the scope of executive power in America. But in fact, this rethinking has been happening […]
Too Good to be True: The Virtues and Vices of Common Good Constitutionalism
@ SLS: Manning Lounge 2nd Floor, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAThis event will be held in a Hybrid format. Stanford Community* are invited to attend in person. Non-Stanford Community are invited to attend online only. Non-Stanford Community (virtual): Register here. Stanford Community (in-person): Register using the form below. *Stanford Community is limited to current faculty, staff, and students. watch the event Common-good constitutionalism purports to uncover the coherent, […]