2022-2023 In Review

 

Debates & Panels

  • “The 70th Anniversary of Youngstown: Reflections on Executive Power” with Professor Jack Goldsmith, Steve Engel & Neil Eggleston [covered in Harvard Law Today]
  • “Was the Constitution of 1787 a Pro-Slavery Document?” a debate between Professors Noah Feldman and Allen Guelzo, moderated by Professor Randy Kennedy
  • “Is the Major Questions Doctrine Made Up?” with Professors Benjamin Eidelson and Jennifer Mascott, moderated by Frances Williamson ‘23
  • “After Dobbs: What Comes Next?” with Professor Nicole Huberfeld, Erin Hawley, and moderator Professor Stephen Sachs
  • “Big Tech Regulation, a Debate” with Josh Divine and Professor Alan Raul, moderated by Professor Jack Goldsmith
  • “Beyond Lemon: The Establishment Clause After Kennedy v. Bremerton” with Judge Ryan Nelson (9th Cir.) and Professors Josh McDaniel and Ruth Okediji
  • “The State of the Research on the Privileges or Immunities Clause” with Professors Jud Campbell, Lawrence Lessig, and Ilan Wurman, moderated by Thomas Koenig ‘24
  • “Affirmative Action and Its Future” with Professors Jeannie Suk Gersen and Guy-Uriel Charles and Jonathan Mitchell
  • “How Should We View the Founders” a debate between Judge John Bush (6th Cir.) and Professor Michael Klarman, moderated by Professor Stephen Sachs
  • “The Tiers of Scrutiny Following Bruen” with Professors Richard Fallon and Joel Alicea

 

Judicial Visits

  • Judge Janice Rogers Brown (D.C. Cir., retired), Constitution Day Lecture
  • Justice Goodwin Liu (California), in conversation with Professor Charles Fried on state supreme courts
  • Judges Eric Murphy (6th Cir.) and Daniel Bress (9th Cir.)
  • Judge Andrew Oldham (5th Cir.), in conversation with Professor Stephen Sachs on varieties of originalism
  • Judge Stephanos Bibas (3d Cir.), on the dangers of overheated judicial rhetoric
  • Judge David Stras (8th Cir.), on what his grandparents’ experience in the Holocaust taught him about the importance of the First Amendment (co-sponsored with Harvard Jewish Law Students Association)
  • Judge Kevin Newsom (11th Cir.)
  • Judges Amul Thapar (6th Cir.) and Benjamin Beaton (W.D. Ky.)
  • Judge Elizabeth Branch (11th Cir.), on campus free speech
  • Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton (6th Cir.), on state constitutional law after Dobbs, Bruen, and West Virginia v. EPA
  • Judge Steven Menashi (2d Cir.), in conversation with Eli Nachmany ’22 on lawyering in the executive branch
  • Judges Meg Ryan (CAAF, retired) and Liam Hardy (CAAF), on the military justice system
  • Judge Raymond Kethledge (6th Cir.), on effective legal writing
  • Judge Thomas Griffith (D.C. Cir., retired), on civic charity and our constitutional order
  • Judge Richard Sullivan (2d Cir.), on the decline of jury trials
  • Judge Charles Eskridge (S.D. Tex.), on the musical Hamilton and the American founding
  • Judge Chad Readler (6th Cir.), in conversation with Andrew Lelling on careers in the United States Department of Justice
  • Judge Kathryn Mizelle (M.D. Fla.), on whether the APA authorizes universal vacatur

 

Conversations & Speeches

  • “October 2021 Term Review” with Morgan Ratner and Jonathan Ellis
  • “How to Crush 1L” with David Beylik, founder of JD Launch
  • “Nondelegation Blues” with Professor Philip Hamburger
  • “October 2022 Term Preview” with Kannon Shanmugam
  • “Changing Norms in the Judicial Confirmation Process” with Ed Whelan
  • “Broken News: On Media Polarization” with Chris Stirewalt
  • “Is Originalism On the Outs? History and Tradition after Dobbs and Bruen” with Professor Randy Barnett
  • “An Originalist Perspective on Courts of Equity” with Professors Owen Gallogly and Henry Smith
  • “A Securities Regulator’s Perspective on ESG Regulation” with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce and Professor Howell Jackson
  • “Abusing the Antiquities Act? A Conversation on Environmental Law, Historic Preservation, and Executive Power” with Professor Andy Mergen and Jeff Wood
  • “The Future of Congress” with Philip Wallach
  • “Odd Ball Federalism Cases” with Professor Michael McConnell
  • Advisory Opinions Live Show with David French and Sarah Isgur
  • “What Is Conservative Economics?” with Oren Kass and Julius Krein

 

Symposia & Endowed Lectures

  • Common Good Constitutionalism Symposium (in partnership with Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy), featuring Professors Adrian Vermeule, Stephen Sachs & Cass Sunstein; Judges James Ho (5th Cir.) and Paul Matey (3d Cir.); and more than a dozen law professors and judges from around the world
  • Herbert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecture, featuring Professor Adrian Vermeule in conversation with Judge Andrew Oldham (5th Cir.) and Professor Lawrence Lessig
  • Symposium on Administrative Law in the States with Justices Brian Hagedorn (Wisconsin), Caleb Stegall (Kansas), and David Wecht (Pennsylvania), Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton (6th Cir.), and Judge Thomas Griffith (D.C. Cir., retired) (in partnership with Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at Antonin Scalia Law School)
  • Scalia Lecture, featuring Professor Will Baude
  • Harvard Federalist Society Alumni Symposium, featuring a keynote lecture by Judge Patrick Bumatay (9th Cir.) and panels including Judges Andrew Brasher (11th Cir.), John Bush (6th Cir.), and Lee Rudofsky (E.D. Ark.) and Justice Greg Cook (Alabama)