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Role of Legal History in Interpreting the Constitution

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Constitutional Debate: Does Constitutional History Mandate Specific Political Outcomes?

The Constitutional Sources Project

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Partner:: Constitutional Sources Project
Location:: E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 09.14.12
Speakers:: Akhil Amar,; Judge Thomas Griffith,; Judge Royce C. Lamberth,; Judge Michael McConnell
Tags:: constitution; constitutional; congress; law enforcement

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A panel of legal experts will question whether Constitutional history mandates the outcomes of today's politics.

ConSource will host a large group of lawyers, judges, policymakers, educators, and interested citizens at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C. to explore whether constitutional history requires or predetermines a particular jurisprudential or political outlook. Renowned legal experts Akhil Amar and Judge Michael McConnell will lead the discussion. Speakers include:

	Akhil Amar Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Yale Law School
	Judge Michael McConnell Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center Stanford Law School
	Opening Remarks provided by Judge Royce Lamberth United States District Court for the District of Columbia
	Program moderated by Judge Thomas Griffith United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

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Akhil Amar

Akhil Reed Amar is an American legal scholar, an expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure. Having been the Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School, he was named the Sterling Professor of Law there in 2008. A Legal Affairs poll placed Amar among the top 20 contemporary US legal thinkers.

Judge Thomas Griffith

Thomas Griffith is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench he was Senate Legal Counsel, the chief legal officer of the United States Senate. In November of 2011, Griffth was included on The New Republic's list of Washington's most powerful, but least famous, people.

Judge Royce C. Lamberth

Royce C. Lamberth is a federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, serving as its Chief Judge. He was nominated to the federal bench on March 19, 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 13, 1987. He also served as Presiding Judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 1995 to 2002.

Judge Michael McConnell

Michael McConnell is a constitutional law scholar who served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 until 2009. Since 2009, Judge McConnell has served as Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. He is also a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and Of Counsel to the Litigation Practice Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

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01 hr 21 min 43 sec

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01.: Introduction

04 min 50 sec

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02.: Chief Judge Royce Lamberth's Opening Remarks

03 min 06 sec

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03.: Gene Schaerr Gives Speaker Introductions

03 min 25 sec

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04.: The Agenda for the Evening

01 min 01 sec

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05.: Historically Misguided Doctrine of the Supreme Court in Interpreting the Constitution?

16 min 18 sec

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06.: What Happens When Non-Historians Interpret the Constitution?

05 min 23 sec

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07.: The Challenge of Affirmative Action and the Use of Reconstruction History?

17 min 58 sec

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08.: Audience Questions

00 min 23 sec

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09.: Q1: What Role Did George Washington Play in Constitution?

09 min 11 sec

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10.: Q2: The Relationship Between Precedence and Original History?

05 min 36 sec

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11.: Q3: How the Constitution Evolves Beyond the Text?

14 min 18 sec

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12.: Conclusion

00 min 13 sec

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Why the Text of the Constitution Still Persists Today

02 min 46 sec

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Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, talks about the legacy of the Constitution, and the conscious choices the framers designed into the document in 1776.
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01 hr 21 min 43 sec

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