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.
Text and (What Kind of) History?: CLC Spring Conference
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, United StatesConstitutional 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, CA, United StatesWatch 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, CA, United StatesWatch 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, CA, United StatesWatch 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, CA, United StatesListen 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, CA, United StatesAS 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, CA, United States5:30 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 a few days after the event. What was the nature of the American union during the nation’s adolescence, after the Founding and before the Civil […]
Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesConstitutional 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, CA, United StatesView 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, CA, United StatesThe 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, CA, United States5:00 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, CA, United States5:00 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, CA, United StatesIn 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 justice of appropriate jurisdiction as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination,” building on more than a century […]
Constitution Day Lecture: Democracy and American Institutions
@ Stanford: Dinkelspiel Auditorium 471 Lagunita Dr., Stanford, CA, United StatesConstitution 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 dedicated citizens. 5:00-6:00 PM | Lecture 6:00-7:00 PM | Reception This event will be an in-person event only. Please register below.
Histories of Presidential Power
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin 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, CA, United StatesThis 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, […]
The Non-First Amendment Law of Freedom of Speech
OnlineThe First Amendment dominates debate about freedom of speech in the United States. Yet it is not the only law that protects expressive freedom. A rich body of local, state, and federal laws also does so, and does so in ways the First Amendment does not. In this talk, Professor Genevieve Lakier will explore the […]
Presidential Polarization
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAdmission Details: This 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 Political polarization […]
Why Voter Suppression Probably Won’t Work
OnlineSince the 2020 election, numerous states under Republican control have enacted new restrictions on the right to vote. These have included limitations on early and absentee voting and enhanced voter identification requirements. Professor Alan Abramowitz will discuss the potential consequences of these laws in light of his research on the effects of voting rules on […]
Searching Computers at the Border
OnlineShould the government be able to search computers at the border without a warrant? If so, with how much cause? And how far should such searches be able to go? Lower courts are divided on these issues, and the Supreme Court is likely to answer these questions soon. Professor Orin Kerr will present the questions […]
Publius Symposium
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, United StatesDemocracy and Distrust at 40: The Past and Future of Dean Ely’s Pathbreaking Work For more details and to view the full agenda please visit: https://conferences.law.stanford.edu/publius-symposium/
Structural Biases in Structural Constitutional Law
OnlineStructural constitutional law regulates the workings of government and supplies the rules of the political game. Whether by design or by accident, these rules sometimes tilt the playing field for or against certain political parties—not just episodically, based on who holds power at a given moment, but systematically over time—in terms of electoral outcomes or […]
Rapid Response: The Supreme Court’s Vaccine Mandate Opinions
OnlineLast week, the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-testing employer mandate, while allowing a mandate applicable to health care workers to go forward. Join Stanford Law School Professors Michael McConnell, William B. Gould IV, and Bernadette Meyler to discuss this pair of decisions and what they mean for constitutional law, labor law, and the […]
The Supreme Court Commission’s Report: A Panel Discussion with Members of the President’s Commission
OnlineJoin Commission co-chair Cristina Rodríguez, professor of law at Yale Law School, Commission member William Baude, professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, and Noah Feldman, professor of law at Harvard Law School, to discuss the report of the Biden Administration’s Supreme Court Commission. The event will be moderated by Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez, […]