S. Public Law Workshop

The Public Law Workshop is intended to expose students to current scholarship in the public law area and to offer students an opportunity to learn about the scholarly enterprise more generally. Past PLWs have focused on issues such as federalism, democratic institutions in an age of polarization, and income inequality. The focus for Spring 2022 is on the democratic crisis in the United States and the challenges to building an inclusive constitutional democracy.

The Workshop is structured around presentations of working papers by leading public law scholars. In some weeks, we will read cases, scholarship, and other materials and discuss these materials in a standard seminar format. For the presentations by outside scholars, students are expected to read the paper and to participate in the discussion, which may be joined by other faculty members.

Students will be required to write three short (1-2 page) response papers and to complete a 20-page final paper.

Enrollment will be limited to approximately 18 students, and admission is by instructor permission. Please email transcript and CV by Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, to Katelin Walsch at [email protected] and to Professors Bulman-Pozen and Johnson at [email protected] and [email protected]. Preference for students with prior public law courses and/ experience.