In conversation with CMC’s George Thomas, Yale Law School’s Akhil Amar and Northwestern Law School’s Steven Calabresi, will discuss important remaining and emerging questions about originalism: What are we speaking of when we seek to understand the original meaning? Why should we be bound by original meaning? How concretely or abstractly do we apply original meaning to current issues? What if original meaning is indeterminate? What are the differences between originalism as practiced by judges and originalism as argued for by academics? And if everyone is an originalist today, does originalism have a core meaning?

The Honorable Clifford Scott Green Lectureship was established in 2003 to perpetuate the civil rights legacy of Judge Clifford Scott Green LAW ’51 and to honor his distinguished service to Temple University.

The Roger S. Aaron ’64 TU’65 Distinguished Lecture on Ethics in Law and Business Akhil Reed Amar – Constitution Day Speaker “The Law of Our Land: America’s Written and Unwritten Constitution”

Sponsored by the Ethics Institute and co-sponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences.

October 1, 2015

From 2018: Sterling Professor of Law Akhil Amar ’84 talks about what makes the U.S. Constitution unique and why we celebrate Constitution Day.