Posted by Randy Barnett:
Was Lochner Right?
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_25-2009_01_31.shtml#1233169158
On Friday, I will be giving a talk on "Was Lochner Right? Natural
Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment" at a conference on [1]Natural
Rights and the Constitution sponsored by the [2]The Tocqueville Forum
on the Roots of American Democracy. I will share a panel at 11:15am
with Princeton Professor Robert George. The conference is being held
at the main campus of Georgetown and lasts from 9:30am to 3:30pm. Here
is the program:
9:30am-11:00am Panel 1: The Origin and Nature of Natural Rights and
the U.S. Constitution
Brian Tierney, Cornell University: Sources of the American Idea of
Natural Rights: Some Competing Narratives
Robert Kraynak, Colgate University: Ordered Liberty at the American
Founding: Natural Rights in Cultural Context
Respondent: Steven Brust, Georgetown University
11:00am- 11:15am Break
11:15am � 12:45pm Panel 2: Perspectives on the Constitution,
Natural Rights, and Natural Law
Robert George, Princeton University: What is Natural Law?
Randy Barnett, Georgetown Law School: Was Lochner Right? Natural
Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
Moderator: Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University
12:45pm-2:00pm Lunch with Keynote Address
Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute (begins at 1:00pm):
Belief in a Certain Type of God as a Foundation of the Natural
Right of Conscience
RSVP required for Lunch
2:00pm � 3:30pm Panel 3: Natural Rights, the Bill of Rights and
Judges: Theory and Practice
Christopher Wolfe, McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies: Natural
Rights, the Constitution, and Judicial Review
Charles Lugosi, Ave Maria Law School: Why Judges Should Understand
the True Nature of the Rule of Law to Effectively Interpret the
Constitution to Protect the Rights of All Persons.
Respondent: Phillip Muñoz, Tufts University
It looks to be very interesting and is open to the public. You can
RSVP for the lunch to [3]tocquevillefo...@georgetown.edu.
I will be giving the same talk in Chicago next Wednesday at DePaul &
Chicago-Kent and Thursday at University of Chicago & Loyola. When I
have the exact times and room locations, I will post them.
References
1. http://government.georgetown.edu/tocquevilleforum/63465.html
2. http://government.georgetown.edu/tocquevilleforum/
3.
file://localhost/var/www/powerblogs/volokh/posts/tocquevillefo...@georgetown.edu
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