Critical Perspectives on Civil Rights & Citizenship

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel features critical perspectives on timely and historical developments in U.S. civil rights law and citizenship. Each paper examines how constitutional and statutory law have either expanded, curtailed, or underdeveloped equal rights and liberty protections for a variety of subjects. Across studies of reproductive health and autonomy, religious liberty, sexual and gender minority rights, juvenile criminal justice, and capital punishment, the panel participants will discuss the sociopolitical dimensions of law while advancing necessary conversations concerning who is protected by law, who is harmed, and for what purposes.

Sub Unit

• Division 27: Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence

Individual Presentations

• The Civic Lineage Regime of the Progressive Era & Today's Constitutional Wars - Elspeth Wilson, Franklin & Marshall College; Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania

• The Importance of Value Pluralism in Constitutional Interpretation - James Michael DeLise, Temple University

• The (Legal) Trans Tipping Point: Jurisprudence after Norsworthy v. Beard - Kathryn J. Perkins, California State University, Long Beach

• The Religious Life of Legal Death - Kathryn A. Heard, Whitman College

• The Supreme Court and Juvenile Incorrigibility Jurisprudence - Anthony Grasso, Rutgers University

Chair

• Joanna W. Wuest Stony Brook University

Discussant

• Joanna W. Wuest Stony Brook University