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CONFER: Property Rights & Due Process - Williamsburg Feb 1999
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Jan 13 09:27:49 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:50:20 -0500
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>> CONFERENCE << -- Property Rights / Supreme Court
On February 27, 1999, from 1:00 pm until 5:00 pm, the Institute of Bill of
Rights Law at the William and Mary Law School will sponsor a conference
entitled "Fidelity, Economic Liberty, and 1937". The conference will be
held at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The past three decades have witnessed a resurgence of the doctrine of
substantive due process. Courts have relied on this doctrine to protect
certain personal rights, such as the right to abortion, the right to employ
contraceptives, and the right to refuse medical treatment. At the same
time, courts have been steadfast in their refusal to accord protection to
so-called economic liberties, such as liberty of contract and liberty of
occupation. Indeed, since 1937, no regulation of these rights has failed
substantive due process review.
This conference will examine whether the disparate treatment of economic
and non-economic liberties can be explained as a faithful rendering of the
original meaning of the due process clauses. Legal scholars from a variety
of perspectives will present original papers exploring this and related
questions. Presenters include David Bernstein (George Mason), Rebecca
Brown (Vanderbilt), Barry Cushman (Virginia), James Fleming (Fordham), John
Harrison (Virginia), Lawrence Lessig (Harvard), John McGinnis (Yeshiva),
and Alan Meese (William & Mary).
If you have questions regarding the conference, please contact the
Institute of Bill of Rights Law (757-221-3810 or irbl@facstaff.wm.edu) or
Professor Alan Meese, conference coordinator (757-221-1609 or
ajmees@facstaff.wm.edu)
Registration for the conference is $50.
Davison M. Douglas
Professor of Law and
Director, Institute of Bill of Rights Law
William and Mary School of Law
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187
(757) 221-3853 (O)
(757) 221-3775 (fax)
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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