The Institute for Liberal Arts at Boston College
with support of
The University of Texas School of Law
welcome faculty and graduate students to
Conference on Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution
Convened by
Richard Albert (Texas)
Ryan C. Williams (Boston College)
Yaniv Roznai (IDC)
Recent constitutional scholarship reveals renewed interest in how unwritten constitutional norms and conventions underlying U.S. constitutional practice can and do change. This conference aims to advance the field by focusing on theoretical, conceptual, and practical questions concerning what it means to “amend” America’s “unwritten constitution” (including what has been called the “small-c constitution”), how the “unwritten constitution” can be amended if at all, and who the relevant constitutional actors are in catalyzing and concretizing these changes.
For questions, please contact Professor Richard Albert by email.