NCC Event - "For or Against Originalism? A Debate"

Event Title: "For or Against Constitutional Originalism?: A Debate"

Date & Time: Tues., Oct. 8, 2024, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST

• PLEASE NOTE: This is a FREE event, but will be hosted online. Be sure to register in advance to receive the Zoom link: https://constitutioncenter.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xcMl6SvdR-2RxVA6t0IBjQ#/registration

Cost: FREE

About the Event:
Stanford University professor Jonathan Gienapp, author of the new book, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (2024), is joined by Stephen Sachs of Harvard Law School to discuss Gienapp’s challenge to originalists’ unspoken assumptions about the Constitution, the history of originalism as a constitutional methodology, and its role in constitutional interpretation today.

About the Speakers & Host:

• Jonathan Gienapp is an Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Law at Stanford University. He specializes in the constitutional, political, legal, and intellectual history of the early United States. His first book, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (2018), rethinks the conventional story of American constitutional creation by exploring how and why founding-era Americans’ understanding of their Constitution transformed in the earliest years of the document’s existence.
• Stephen E. Sachs is the Antonin Scalia Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches civil procedure, conflict of laws, and seminars on constitutional law and jurisprudence. His research focuses on the law and theory of constitutional interpretation. He has authored numerous articles about originalism including "Originalism as a Theory of Legal Change" (2015), "Originalism's Bite" (2016), "Originalism Without Text" (2017), "Grounding Originalism" (2019), "Originalism: Standard and Procedure" (2022), and "Dobbs and the Originalists" (2024).
• Jeffrey Rosen, the host, is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, as well as a professor of law at George Washington University and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.

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