I took half in a latest Nationwide Structure Heart panel on “The Struggle Over Constitutional Which means.” The opposite contributors have been Prof. Amanda Shanor (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Prof. Alan Trammell (Washington and Lee), and Prof. Wilfred Codrington, III (Cardozo Faculty of Regulation, Yeshiva College, serving as moderator). Right here is the video:
We coated a number of floor, starting from the professionals and cons of originalism, as to whether the Reconstruction amendments are “underrated” as to whether we’d like elementary constitutional reform. On the latter subject, I made the case that a lot of our present issues stem not from inherent flaws within the Structure however from failure to implement it extra absolutely.
The panel was half of a bigger convention on “Constitutional Which means within the Shadow of the Articles of Confederation.” Video of the total convention and the total listing of contributors (together with many outstanding authorized students and Rep. Jamin Raskin, himself a former authorized scholar) can be found right here.
