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Thursday, August 08, 2024

Balkinization Symposiums-- A Continuing List

JB

Over the the years we've done dozens of symposiums here at Balkinization. This list offers a summary of the books and subjects we've covered. We will continue to add links to earlier symposiums as well as updating the list with new ones. For each symposium, the date assigned is the date of the last in the series of posts.

Many thanks to all of the people who've written for us over the years. You have enriched legal scholarship with your efforts.

2024

In progress

Balkinization Symposium on Jeremy Kessler, Law and Historical Materialism.

September 30, 2024

Balkinization Symposium on Aileen Kavanagh, The Collaborative Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

September 16, 2024

Balkinization Symposium on Neil Siegel, The Collective-Action Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2024).

September 06, 2024

Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston, The Political Development of American Debt Relief (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

August 16, 2024

Balkinization Symposium on Alison LaCroix, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, 2024).

August 2, 2024

Balkinization Symposium on Solangel Maldonado, The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality (New York University Press, 2024).

July 5, 2024

Balkinization Symposium on Mark Graber, Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War (University of Kansas Press, 2023).

May 24, 2024

Balkinization Symposium on David Pozen, The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Oxford University Press, 2024).

March 23, 2024

Balkinization Symposium on Richard L. Hasen, A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2024).

February 24, 2024

Balkinization Symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

2023

October 18, 2023 

Balkinization Symposium on Frank Michelman, Constitutional Essentials: On the Constitutional Theory of Political Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2022).

October 18, 2023

Balkinization Symposium on the Chevron Doctrine through the Lens of Comparative Law.

July 09, 2023

Balkinization Symposium on Martin Loughlin,  Against Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2022).

June 27, 2023

Balkinization Symposium on Christian Fritz, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

June 12, 2023

Balkinization Symposium on David Schleicher, In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises (Oxford University Press, 2023).

May 19, 2023

LevinsonFest on Constitutional Crises.

May 16, 2023

Balkinization Symposium on Julie Suk, After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It (University of California Press, 2023).

April 29, 2023

LevinsonFest on Civic Education.

March 18, 2023

Balkinization Symposium on Joanna Schwartz, Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (Viking, 2023).

February 08, 2023

The Balkinization 20th Anniversary Symposium on the Present State of Constitutional Theory.

January 11, 2023

LevinsonFest on Federation and Secession.

2022

December 29, 2022

LevinsonFest on Voting Rights.

December 19, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Tanya K. Hernández, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality (Beacon Press, 2022).

December 05, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Andrew Koppelman, Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed  (St. Martin’s Press, 2022).

December 04, 2022

LevinsonFest on the Second Amendment.

November 18, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on James E. Fleming, Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

September 27, 2022

LevinsonFest on Comparative Constitutional Design.

September 14, 2022

LevinsonFest on Can this Constitution be Saved.

August 07, 2022

LevinsonFest on Wrestling with Religious Diversity.

July 21, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Mitchell N. Berman and Richard D. Friedman, The Jurisprudence of Sport: Sports and Games as Legal Systems (West Publishing 2021). 

July 15, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Adrian Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism (Polity Press 2022).

June 24, 2022

LevinsonFest on Law, Literature, and Other Performing Arts.

June 22, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2022).

June 15, 2022

LevinsonFest on Constitutional Faith and Veneration.

May 26, 2022

LevinsonFest on Public Memory and Public Monuments.

May 4, 2022

Levinsonfest on Reforming the U.S. Supreme Court

April 18, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Richard Hasen, Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics-and How to Cure It (Yale University Press, 2022).

March 31, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Dan Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021).

March 20, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric's new book Power to the People: Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism (Oxford University Press 2021).

February 20, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Aziz Huq, The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies (Oxford University Press, 2021).

February 5, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Death and Legal Scholarship

January 31, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Susan Rose-Ackerman, Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the US, the UK, Germany, and France (Yale University Press, 2021).

January 20, 2022

Balkinization Symposium on Linda Colley, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (Liveright, 2021).

2021

November 24, 2021

Balkinization Symposium on Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship (University Press of Kansas, 2021).

October 3, 2021

Balkinization Symposium on Rosalind Dixon and David Landau, Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal globalization and the subversion of liberal democracy (Oxford University Press, 2021).

August 27, 2021

Balkinization Symposium on Jim Pfander, Cases Without Controversies: Uncontested Adjudication in Article III Courts (Oxford University Press, 2021).

July 18, 2021

Balkinization Symposium on Stephen Skowronek, John A. Dearborn and, Desmond King, Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and The Unitary Executive (Oxford University Press, 2021).

July 2, 2021

Balkinization Symposium on Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021).

June 30, 2021

Balkinization Symposium on Kurt Lash, The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.).

April 15, 2021

Balkinization Symposium on Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis (Knopf, 2020).

February 7, 2021

Balkinization Symposium on  Mary Ziegler, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

January 24, 2021

Balkinization Symposium on Bill Eskridge and Christopher Riano new book, Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws (Yale University Press, 2020).

2020

October 1, 2020

Balkinization Symposium on Jack M. Balkin, The Cycles of Constitutional Time (Oxford University Press, 2020).

August 16, 2020

Balkinization Symposium on Mark Tushnet's new book, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (Yale University Press 2020).

June 24, 2020

Balkinization Symposium on Linda McClain's new book, Who's the Bigot?: Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2020).

May 27, 2020

Balkinization Symposium on Timothy William Waters, Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (Yale University Press, 2020) and F. H. Buckley, American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020).

May 15, 2020

Balkinization Symposium on Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell, The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

April 29, 2020

Balkinization Symposium on Richard Albert, Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press, 2019).

April 3, 2020

Balkinization Symposium on Helen Norton, The Government's Speech and the Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

March 9, 2020

Balkinization Symposium on Richard L. Hasen, Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy (Yale University Press, 2020).

2019

December 14, 2019

Balkinization Symposium on Mary Anne Franks, The Cult of the Constitution (Stanford University Press, 2019).

December 6, 2019

Balkinization Symposium on  David Schwartz, The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland (Oxford University Press, 2019).

November 2, 2019

Balkinization Symposium on Robert TsaiPractical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation (Norton 2019).

October 11, 2019

Balkinization Symposium on Andrew Coan, Rationing the Constitution: How Judicial Capacity Shapes Supreme Court Decision-Making (Harvard University Press 2019).

August 14, 2019

Balkinization Symposium on  Lawrence Lessig, Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2019).

June 21, 2019

Balkinization Symposium on Ken Kersch, Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

June 21, 2019

Balkinization Symposium on Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson, Democracy and Dysfunction (University of Chicago Press, 2019).

April 15, 2019

Balkinization Symposium on Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 2019).

2018

November 5, 2018

Symposium on The Law And Policy Of AI, Robotics, and Telemedicine In Health Care

November 1, 2018

Balkinization Symposium on Jonathan Gienapp, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (Belknap Press 2018).

2017

May 24, 2017

Balkinization Symposium on James Pfander,  Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2017).

April 22, 2017

Balkinization Symposium on Michael Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution (Oxford University Press 2016).

January 28, 2017

Balkinization Symposium on Adrian Vermeule, Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State (Harvard University Press 2016).

2015

August 20, 2015

Balkinization symposium on Roberta Kwall, The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition (Oxford University Press 2015).

August 14, 2015

Balkinization Symposium on Deconstructing Ferguson One Year Later

2014

November 26, 2014

Balkinization Symposium on Administrative Reform of Immigration Law

October 8, 2014

Balkinization Symposium on Unconstitutional Animus

May 22, 2014

Balkinization Symposium on Bruce Ackerman, We The People:  The Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard Univ. Press 2014).

2013

March 19, 2013

Balkinization Symposium on Jim Fleming and Linda McClain, Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard University Press, 2013).

2010

October 22, 2010

Balkinization Symposium on Bruce Ackerman, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic (Belknap Press, 2010).


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