Constitutional Law

Constitutional Accountability Center

This morning’s Legal Times profiled the Constitutional Accountability Center, a new progressive think tank and public interest law firm that asserts that the “the Constitution’s text and history are on the progressive side.” The organization will be headed by Doug Kendall, founder and executive director of the public interest group Community Rights Counsel, which will become part of the new organization.

According to Kendall, the organization’s theoretical approach is grounded in the scholarship of Akhil Amar, Jack Balkin, Charles Black, and Laurence Tribe.

Kendall discussed whether federalism can be progressive at a panel discussion at ACS’s national convention. ACS hosted a symposium entitled “Keeping Faith with the Constitution in Changing Times,” which discussed modes of constitutional interpretation and resulted in a number of papers, including this one on fidelity to text and principle by Professor Balkin.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).