The 2022 Chapman Law Review Annual Symposium will be held via Zoom and will feature panels exploring the effects of modernization on constitutional law.

Panel 1 - Originalism in Flux

10:30 - 11:45 a.m.

This panel will discuss which theories of constitutional interpretation render the Constitution most effective and resilient in the face of change, technological and otherwise.

Panelists

Hugh Hewitt, Professor of Law, Fowler School of Law

Michael Rappaport, Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism, University of San Diego

Mark Tushnet, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Rebecca Zietlow, Distinguished University Professor and the Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Value, University of Toledo College of Law

Moderator: Professor Kurt Eggert, Director of the Alona Cortese Elder Law Center at the Fowler School of Law

Keynote Address

Noon - 12:30 p.m.

Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law

Panel 2 - The Tomorrow Doctrine

1 - 2 p.m.

This panel will examine how emergent technologies and other trends will result in new constitutional thought.

Panelists

Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law, UCI Law

David S. Han, Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law

Mark Kende, Professor of Law and Director of the Drake Constitutional Law Center, Drake University Law School

James Phillips, Assistant Professor of Law, Fowler School of Law

Moderator: Professor Kurt Eggert, Director of the Alona Cortese Elder Law Center at the Fowler School of Law