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• Guest poster Richard Schragger on externalist versus internalist views of the Constitution

  Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 2:19 PM by Dahlia Lithwick
  
  
  
  Richard Schragger is another Slate contributor who teaches at UVA law school. He sent in this email in an effort to clarify where you and I differ Jack. In his post concerning the “living Constitution” Jack takes Dahlia to task for her naiveté – how can Read More...
  Filed under: Heller, 2d amendment, living Constitution

• Guest poster James Ryan on the influence of social movements on the courts

  Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 12:55 PM by Dahlia Lithwick
  
  
  
  I’ve been getting lots of interesting emails about my conversation with Jack about the proper role of social moments in constitutional courts so I thought I’d share some of the best. James Ryan teaches at the University of Virginia and has written for Read More...
  Filed under: Heller, 2d amendment

• About that “Progressive Constitutional” Thing

  Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 1:19 PM by Deborah N. Pearlstein
  
  
  
  With growing appreciation of Jack and Dahlia (and growing bewilderment at how any of us will keep up with our day jobs in a post- Convictions world), let me offer a few thoughts in response to Jack's post on the Second Amendment and more broadly on constitutional Read More...
  Filed under: Deborah Pearlstein, 2d amendment, fundamental rights

• I like my living constituion medium rare

  Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 10:27 AM by Dahlia Lithwick
  
  
  
  Jack, thanks for your thoughtful post on the drawbacks of living constitutionalism. I don’t imagine you really believe that the version of living constitutionalism you’ve unspooled -- if it’s living constitutionalism at all – is one I’d embrace. That’s Read More...
  Filed under: Heller, 2d amendment

• An unoriginal thought about Heller

  Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:30 PM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Musing on the oral argument in Heller , which I just found time to digest (check out the read-along-picture-book -like function at Oyez.org): Anyone else struck by the oddity of an originalist focus with regard to the existence vel non of an individual Read More...
  Filed under: Heller, originalism, 2d amendment

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