Conference - Constitutional Reconstruction: History and the Meaning of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

The CCCG and Notre Dame Law Review is proud to present this year's annual NDLR Symposium, "Constitutional Reconstruction: The History and the Meaning of the Thirteenth,Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments"

Events include the keynote address on Friday, October 28, delivered by Prof. Laura Edwards (Princeton): "The Reconstruction Amendments: America's Rights Revolution". More information can be found here. 

Workshop discussions will take place on Friday, October 29 in 1030 Nanovic Hall.

 

8:30 am "The Meaning of Freedom: How Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment Changed the American Constitution"

Amul Thapar, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

G. Marcus Cole, Notre Dame Law School

Kate Masur, Northwestern University

Rebecca E. Zietlow, University of Toledo

 

10:45 am "The Meaning of LibertyThe Drafting and Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment"

Jeffrey S. Sutton, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Jason Mazzone, University of Illinois College of Law

Christopher W. Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame

 

1:45 pm "The Meaning of SuffrageThe Drafting, Ratification, and Enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment"

Janice Rogers Brown, Judge (ret.), U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Vikram David Amar, University of Illinois College of Law

Travis Crum, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

Bradley Rebeiro, Brigham Young University Law

 

Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.