Book Launch: “The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, And Slavery In The Age Of Federalisms” By Alison LaCroix
Social Science Research Building, John Hope Franklin Room (Room 224)
1126 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
The Chicago Center on Democracy and The Forum on Law and Legalities present Alison LaCroix (Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, Associate Member of the Department of History at The University of Chicago), in conversation with Eric Slauter (Deputy Dean of the Humanities Division and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division Associate Professor), about LaCroix’s new book The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms.
About the book: Yale University Press describes the book as a “synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision.”
LaCroix describes the period between 1815 and 1861, known as the era of the Interbellum Constitution, as an era of profound transformation for American constitutional law and politics. Learn more about the Interbellum Constitution, its historical and political context, and LaCroix’s argument for showing how deeply these constitutional questions dominated the discourse of the time.
This event is presented by The Chicago Center on Democracy and The Forum on Law and Legalities.