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2006-2007
SCHEDULE OF
EVENTS

 

CONFERENCE


The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism
January 26-28, MSU
Kellogg Center

 
 
LECTURE SERIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Lecture:
Mario Vargas Llosa

“Literature and History”

February 26,
7:30 pm, Wharton Center,
Great Hall

February 27,
8:00 pm, Kellogg Center Auditorium

Februay 28,
10:00 am,
Kellogg Center Auditorium


 

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Conference:

The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism

Lecture Series:

Literature and History

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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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