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: Essentially Contested AmericaAALS Mid-Year Conference in Constitutional Law
By Robert Justin Lipkin
June 2008. Here's the statement of the reason for this conference: "Constitutional law is always changing, but the changes since the last
AALS professional development program on constitutional law are
particularly dramatic. The Supreme Court has significantly changed the
emphasis of its prior jurisprudence of government power and abortion
rights. The so-called federalism revolution of the 1990s might have
reached its limits. Laurence Tribe announced that he had suspended
working on his treatise on constitutional law because the field was in
such flux that no overview seemed possible. How can scholars of
constitutional law respond to these developments? Participants in the
2008 Conference on Constitutional Law will have a chance to consider
these and many other topics."Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).
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Cowboy Hat
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