Academic

This past February, the Center held the First Originalist Works-in-Progress Conference in San Diego.  The conference featured an outstanding group of participants and was generally regarded as a big success.  For information on the First Conference, see here.  For a videotape of the proceedings, see here.

We invite you to submit a work-in-progress for the Second Conference.  A work in progress is a draft paper in article form that is not yet published as of the conference date.  An originalist paper is defined broadly to be any paper that argues for or against originalism as a matter of theory, or applies originalism to some aspect of the Constitution.
    
Submissions should take the form of a one to three page abstract (and, if you like, an initial draft).  The Originalism Center will select an appropriate range of papers to be presented at the conference.  Submissions can be sent to us now, if possible, but in any event by the end of August.  We will ask that the selected papers be circulated to conference participants in early January, 2011.  The Center will cover travel expenses, lodging, and meals for paper authors and commentators.

In addition to paper authors and commentators, we would like to invite all scholars who do work on originalism to attend and participate in the conference by reading the papers and joining in the discussion.  The Center would be happy to pay for the principal meals for those attending the whole conference but not giving a paper or serving as a commentator. 

We hope you will be able to join us in San Diego.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact either Michael Rappaport (mrappaport@gmail.com), Michael Ramsey (mramsey@sandiego.edu), or Steve Smith (smiths@sandiego.edu).

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).