by Nicole Flatow
In the final session of the American Constitution Society’s webinar series, “What the Constitution Means and How to Interpret It,” ACS Board Chair Geoffrey R. Stone will discuss how the Constitution is applied to new contexts.
During a 30-minute live-streamed discussion, Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago, will consider what makes the Constitution such an enduring document, and discuss his recent ACS Issue Brief co-authored with the University of North Carolina’s Bill Marshall, “The Framers’ Constitution: Toward a Theory of Principled Constitutionalism.” Following a 15-minute presentation, Stone will take questions for 15 minutes.
Other webcasts in the nine-part series on understanding the Constitution have focused on equality, democracy, criminal justice and liberty. Each session, led by a preeminent scholar, mirrors a chapter in the ACS-published book, Keeping Faith with the Constitution, by Pamela Karlan, Goodwin Liu and Christopher H. Schroeder.
Lawyers, law students and non-lawyers are encouraged to participate and interact with questions, tweets and Facebook comments. If you are on Twitter, please join ACS both during and after tomorrow’s session at the hashtag #ACSclass.
The Nov. 16 webcast will occur at 12 p.m. EST and is free and open to everyone. To listen to audio recordings of previous webcasts and see accompanying readings, visit the web page for “What the Constitution Means and How to Interpret It.”
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The role of U.S. courts as a “corrective for the dangers of majoritarian abuse” has been stymied by conservatives and originalists, University of Chicago Board Chair Geoffrey R. Stone explains in a video interview with ACSblog.