Professor James Phillips gives an overview of corpus linguistics, a cutting-edge interpretive tool that has started making its way into the judiciary. 

Professor Sherif Girgis of Notre Dame Law discusses his

Jonathan Wolfson of the Cicero Institute, and our own

Ed Whelan, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center offers his thoughts on what elections—both present and future—will mean for Sup...

Professor Joel Alicea of Catholic Law gives his talk, The Natural Law Moment in Constitutional Theory. After his talk, Professor Alicea answers questions from attendees. 

We welcome back Institute for Justice attorneys, as well as our very own chapter booster Professor Julia Mahoney, for a fun and wide-ranging look at the cases the Court will consider, and the cases our panelists think the Court should hear. The...

Professor Andrew Hayashi interviews Andrew Grossman, a partner at Baker Hostetler, about Moore v. United States. Mr. Grossman argued the case before the Court last term, and he discusses both his experiences litigating the case and the...

Robert Frommer of the Institute of Justice gives us an overview of IJ’s Project on the Fourth Amendment, focusing specifically on efforts to reform the “open fields” doctrine. UVA Law’s own Professor Barb Armacost also offers her thoughts on Fo...

Originalism may be the dominant theory of constitutional interpretation at the Supreme Court, but its adherents often have differing views on how exactly it should work and what outcomes should result. Our panel discusses the various strains of...

The rise in ESG investing is one of the most controversial financial developments of the last few years. Is it common sense or a sham? Former Commissioner of the SEC, Paul Atkins, joined the chapter for a discussion on “ESG, Corporate Social Re...

Christina Martin of the Pacific Legal Foundation joined Professor Cynthia Nicoletti to discuss the Court's decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County.  

The ascendancy of conservative legal thought has transformed the legal landscape.  But has the conservative legal movement been a success?  Edward Whelan, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, joined the ...

Jason Pye from the Due Process Institute joined the chapter to unpack the conservative case for criminal justice reform, as well as evaluate the First Step Act.  The FSA was signed by President Trump in 2018 and is an example of a bipartis...

Originalism has become the preferred method of constitutional interpretation for the majority of the Supreme Court, with Justice Elena Kagan stating that “we are all originalists.” But what exactly is originalism, and is it a good idea? Profess...

Qualified immunity is, according to Dean John Jeffries, "the most important doctrine in the law of constitutional torts," and has been particularly important in recent years because of conversations surrounding police brutality. But is it Const...

Professors Josh Blackman and Amanda Frost joined the chapter for a conversation on judicial ethics. This past summer saw a wave of controversy surrounding the question of whether actions taken by members of the Supreme Court violated ethical co...