“Frederick Douglass and the Original Originalists” with Professor Bradley Rebeiro (BYU Law) and John Stauffer (Harvard College)

What can Frederick Douglass teach us about constitutional interpretation? Join Bradley Rebeiro (BYU Law) and Professor John Stauffer (Harvard University) for a conversation on Douglass’s constitutional thought and its relationship to the history and development of originalism. The discussion will explore Douglass’s approach to the Constitution and consider what nineteenth-century debates over constitutional meaning can contribute to contemporary conversations about originalist interpretation. Lunch will be served.