ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society

ACS recently released a series of papers from a symposium on "Keeping Faith with the Constitution in Changing Times." The conference invited a number of leading practitioners and academics to address important constitutional issues.  Among the papers emerging from this symposium are:

• Rebecca L. Brown, Allen Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, considered "why the Constitution should be binding on us" in her piece Self Government, Change, and Justice.
• Erwin Chemerinsky, Alston & Bird Professor of Law of Law at Duke University School of Law, questions originalism's "false promise of constraining judges" in his piece Constitutional Interpretation for the Twenty-first Century.
• Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, traced three decades of debate over constitutional interpretation in The Constitution: Change and Interpretation.
  

The symposium, co-sponsored by ACS and Vanderbilt University Law School, launched a major effort by ACS to affect the way lawyers, policymakers, advocates, and students think and talk about the Constitution. Information about additional issue briefs presented at the conference will be published in future posts.