Aziz Huq, Farah Peterson at the Fifth Annual National Constitutional Law Conference
Legal Scholars Gather in Tucson for Fifth Annual National Constitutional Law Conference
After two-years of virtual gatherings, the National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars reconvened in person in Tucson, Arizona this past March. Now in its fifth year, the conference, which is hosted by the William H. Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional Structures of Government housed in the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, has quickly become the leading national conference of constitutional law scholars.
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Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School delivered the keynote address on the rule of law in contemporary American constitutionalism.
“The rule of law is a famously slippery concept,” noted Coan. “Huq’s keynote boiled it down to two core principles and argued that the U.S. constitutional system is failing to live up to either. He challenged the legal academy to do better and, specifically, to rethink its relationship to powerful interests.”
Huq was joined by distinguished commentators Mitch Berman (University of Pennsylvania), Justin Driver (Yale), Jud Campbell (Richmond), Tara Leigh Grove (Texas), Farah Peterson (Chicago) and Miriam Seifter (Wisconsin) who each moderated one of the six main sessions. This year’s program also included several break-out “lightning sessions,” in which participants delivered short, no-paper presentations on early-stage projects followed by group discussion.
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