| 2006
Conference Schedule
The
Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism
Friday, January
26
Session
I:
Keynote Address
(Big Ten C, Kellogg Center, 9:00 am)
Welcome: Lou Anna K. Simon
President, Michigan State University
Keynote Address: Bruce Cole
Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
Session II:
Philosophical Perspectives
(Big Ten C,
Kellogg Center, 10:15 am – 12:45
pm)
Papers: Nathan Tarcov
Professor, Social Thought, Political Science, and the College, University of
Chicago
Steven Kautz
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Associate Dean, the
Honors College,
Michigan State University
Response: Vickie Sullivan, Professor, Department of Political Science,
and Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University
Session
III:
Historical Perspectives: American Constitutional
History
(Big Ten C,
Kellogg Center, 2:45 pm – 5:15 pm)
Papers: Leslie Friedman Goldstein
Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor, Department of Political Science, University
of Delaware
Michael P. Zuckert
Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor, Department of Political Science, University
of Notre Dame
Response: Richard Primus, University of Michigan Law School
Saturday,
January 27
Session
IV:
Constitutionalism and Democracy
(Lincoln Room, Kellogg
Center, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm)
Papers: Lawrence A. Alexander
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego School
of Law
Rogers M. Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Department
of Political
Science, University of Pennsylvania
Response: Stephen Macedo
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics, Princeton University,
and New York
University School of Law
Session
V:
Comparative Perspectives
(Lincoln Room, Kellogg Center,
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm)
Papers: Gary J. Jacobsohn
Patterson-Banister Professor and H. Malcolm Macdonald Professor in
Constitutional and
Comparative Law, Department of Government, University of Texas
Mark Tushnet
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Response: James W. Ceaser
Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
Sunday,
January 28
Session
VI: Constitutionalism in Political Context (Big Ten C,
Kellogg Center, 10:00am – 12:30 pm)
Papers: Benjamin A. Kleinerman
Assistant Professor, Department of International
Studies, Virginia Military Institute, and Visiting
Scholar, Program on Constitutional Government, Harvard University
Keith E. Whittington
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Department of
Politics, Princeton University
Response: James Stoner
Professor, Department of Political Science, Louisiana State University
This
conference is made possible, in part, by a grant from the
Earhart Foundation
and
a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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