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Jack Balkin presents the keynote address for a symposium hosted by the Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy. His talk, "Is It Time to Rewrite the Constitution?", will take place at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7 in Room 2260.

Professor Balkin is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment and Founder and Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is the author of over one hundred articles and the author or editor of eleven books. His work ranges over many different fields, including constitutional theory, telecommunications and Internet law, reproductive rights, freedom of speech, rhetoric, jurisprudence and legal reasoning, cultural evolution, the theory of ideology, and musical and legal interpretation. His most recent books are Living Originalism (Harvard, Belknap Press, 2011), and Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World (Harvard University Press 2011). He has also written widely on legal issues for such publications as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Atlantic Online, The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, CNN.com, The New Republic Online, and Slate, and writes political and legal commentary at the weblog Balkinization.

For more information about the symposium, contact Howard Schweber or Jonathan Schwartz.

  

Submitted by Law School News on November 7, 2014

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