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.
Supreme Court Roundup and Preview
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Lecture in SLS Room 290 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Reception in Cooley Courtyard 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 […]
Who Am I to Judge?: Judicial Craft versus Constitutional Theory
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA4:45-5:00 PM | Dinner 5:00-6:00 PM | Lecture 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 […]
Does Section 3 Trump the Voters?
@ SLS: Room 190 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 […]
Constitutionalism without a Constitution: the Israeli Case
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAConstitutional Conversation with Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein. Kosher lunch provided.
Natural Rights at the Founding
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA4:45-5:00 PM | Dinner 5:00-6:00 PM | Lecture Although no longer a part of our constitutional discourse, natural rights were central to American rights jurisprudence for well over a century. […]
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 unless they are "consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition" of firearm regulation. Challenges to countless gun laws are now underway in federal courts. Scholars, litigators, […]
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? My lecture will argue yes on both fronts, offering a different conceptual framework for thinking about the protection of constitutional rights in a democracy.
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 […]
Constitutional Conversation with Jorge Barrera Rojas
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAA Constitutional Conversation with Jorge Barrera Rojas.
Constitutional Conversation with Evelyn Aswad
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 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 […]
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 […]
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