Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Alison LaCroix, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, 2024).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium
2. Jonathan Gienapp, Inheriting the Constitution
3. Greg Ablavsky, Facing Federalism(s) From Indian Country
4. Rachel A. Shelden, The Interbellum Constitution On Its Own Terms
5. Anna Law, Reflections on interdisciplinarity and periodization upon reading The Interbellum Constitution
6. Anne Twitty, Going Big by Going Small: Alison LaCroix’s The Interbellum Constitution
7. Simon Gilhooley, Forging Constitutional Politics through the Interbellum Constitution
8. Jane Manners, The Law and Politics of Exclusion in Alison L. LaCroix’s The Interbellum Constitution
9. Evelyn Atkinson, The Creativity and Tragedy of Interbellum Federalisms
10. Aaron Hall, Creativity, Constraint and the Long Founding Moment
11. Christian G. Fritz, The Complexity of American Federalism
12. David S. Schwartz, “Interbellum” versus “Antebellum,” or the Perils of Periodization
13. Connor M. Ewing , From Ideological Origins to the Interbellum Constitution
14. John Mikhail, A Federalism of Forgetting and Reimagining
15. Alison L. LaCroix, Both Descendants and Ancestors: A Response to the Contributors