Symposium: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the Constitution: How LGBTQ Rights are Defined, Protected, and Preempted

America's Other Original Sin: Indians & the Constitution in the Shadow of Empire

Examining Black Citizenship from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter

The Equal Protection of the Text

Book Talk: The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech

The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project: Rewriting the Law, Writing the Future

Innocence and the Constitution: Why We Need to Do Better

The Origins of Feminist Equality: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Birth

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the leader of the 19th century woman’s rights movement, providing both the philosophy and the advocacy for radical reform of the state, church, and family. This colloquium of leading Stanton experts discusses new...

The 140th Anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment

This symposium featured discussions on how the Fourteenth Amendment came to be and the influence of that history today. Presenters explored a variety of questions including: how the early cases of the Supreme Court are used today by modern...

The New Face of Women's Legal History

The New Face of Women's Legal History Symposium brought together legal scholars and historians to present work recovering the facts of women's agency in the law and integrating that discovery into the mainstream legal canon.

John Bingham and the Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment

This symposium was inspired by John Bingham, the Ohio congressman who was the principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment. Presenters discussed the real meaning and impact of the Reconstruction Era, both as a cautionary tale and as a...