Adam Samaha : Presentations

"Talk About Talking About Constitutional Law," Conference on Jack Balkin’s Living Originalism, University of Illinois College of Law, April 2011.

"Supreme Court Update" (panelist), National Association of Attorneys General Summer Meeting, Seattle, Washington, June 2010.

"Intelligent Design in the Courts: An Introduction to the Constitutional Issues", Professor James A. Shapiro's Course on Molecular Genetic Dissection of the Gene and the Genome, the University of Chicago, June 2010.

"Two Courts from Two Perspectives", Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 2010.

"Taylor Flynn's, Clarion Call or False Alarm: Why Proposed Exemptions to Equal Marriage Statutes Turn Antidiscrimination Law on its Head" (commentator), Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop, the University of Chicago Law School, May 2010.

"The Second Amendment and the States" (panelist), Chicago Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2010.

"Accommodation of Religion and the Problem of Medical Care for Children," Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2009.

"Originalism’s Alternatives," American Constitution Society Chapter of Santa Clara University Law School, November 2008.

"Muskets and Glocks: The Second Amendment Reborn?" The University of Chicago Law School’s Loop Luncheon, May 2008.

"Judicial Transparency in an Age of Prediction," Villanova School of Law’s Symposium on the Future of Judicial Transparency, February 2008.

"Supreme Court Preview," American Constitution Society Chapter of the University of Chicago Law School, October 2007 (panelist).

"The U.S. Supreme Court: Its Recent Term and Its New Justices." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Claremont Institute, Chicago, IL, August 2007.

First Monday Lectures, University of Chicago Law School, New York, NY; Washington, DC; San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL, September-October 2006.

"John McGinnis's Pragmatic Defense of Originalism." University of Chicago Law School Federalist Society, January 2006 (commentary).

"Senatorial Deference and the Alito Nomination." University of Iowa Law School American Constitution Society, January 2006.

"Supreme Court Preview." American Civil Liberties Union and the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, Chicago, IL, November 2006 (panelist).

"International Law and Free Speech." University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies, May 2005 (panelist).

"Do Democracy and Justice Coexist in Secret?" William E. McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition Seminar, University of Minnesota Law School, February 2003.

"Federalism and State Sovereign Immunity." Federal Practice Committee for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, April 2003.

"The First Amendment in the Rehnquist Court." University of Minnesota Law School Summer Continuing Legal Education Program, May 2003.