On Tuesday, July 14, 2009, ACS hosted a panel discussion at the National Press Club focused on The Constitution in 2020, a new book released by Oxford University Press. This volume contains 27 essays about the future of the U.S. Constitution by leading scholars in the fields of constitutional and civil rights law. The editors of the book led a discussion among top legal scholars about their visions of the Constitution and what their views on constitutional interpretation would mean for our country in the decades ahead. This timely discussion took place as the Senate considered President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, and questions about constitutional interpretation were central to this discussion.

Attendees received a complimentary copy of The Constitution in 2020.

The panel featured:

• Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, and co-editor of The Constitution in 2020
• Reva B. Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School, and co-editor of The Constitution in 2020
• Walter E. Dellinger III, Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law, Duke University School of Law; Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP; and former acting Solicitor General of the United States, 1996-97
• Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Click here to view video of the event.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The National Press Club, Holeman Lounge
529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC 20045

*Professor Tracey L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School, was scheduled as a panelists but was unable to attend.