THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY

For Law & Public Policy Studies

Presents an event:

Ilan Wurman

"The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment"

With Commentary by Aziz Huq

Monday, February 8th

12:15 pm

If you need an accommodation in order to participate in this event, please email Tamara Skinner at tskinner@uchicago.edu.

Ilan Wurman is an associate professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College and went on to get his J.D. from Stanford Law School. This talk is based on Professor Wurman’s recently published book, The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment. In his book, Professor Wurman asserts not only that we should reclaim the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment but that doing so would lead to many desirable and surprising results. He argues that the Privileges and Immunities Clause is not, like many originalists claim, a fundamental rights provision, but is instead an anti-discrimination provision.

Aziz Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and went on the get his J.D. from Columbia Law School. Professor Huq is a leading constitutional law scholar; he has published extensively in the field. His scholarship focuses on the interaction of constitutional design with individual rights and liberties.

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