December 2023 - Page 2 of 2 - LAW AND RELIGION FORUM

My essay, Establishment as Tradition, has just come out in the Yale Law Journal Forum, together with very worthwhile pieces by Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen and Professor Stephanie Barclay. These are together collected under the title, “The Religion Clauses Post-Kennedy.”

My piece is another sketch in an ongoing series of illustrations of traditionalism as an independent constitutional theory, addressing specific issues about its relationship to religion and establishment. Delighted to see traditionalism come to the YLJ.

I was delighted and honored to participate in a two-day conference marking the 30th anniversary of Professor Robert George’s deeply important book, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, organized by the Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy, and the American Enterprise Institute.

I was joined by my friends, Professors Joel Alicea and Steven Smith, with Judge Thomas Griffith moderating, on the final panel concerning constitutional theory. The recording, which I’ve posted below, begins at 6:49:29 and my own presentation starts at 7:06:35. But I highly recommend all of the panel presentations and discussions.