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The YJLH Symposium on Gienapp's "Against Constitutional Originalism"

Legal History Blog [Unofficial] March 12, 2026
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We have previously noted some contributions to the symposium on Jonathan Gienapp ’s Against Constitutional Originalism in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.  The complete symposium is now available open-access online:

Can Originalism Survive Jonathan Gienapp? Thomas B. Colby

Gienapp’s Big Book: Conceptual Rupture, Modernism, and the End of Originalism Logan Sawyer

Birthright Citizenship, Unwritten Constitutionalism, and the Nature of the Union John Mikhail

Against Against Constitutional Originalism : A Critique of a Critique Mark Peterson

Essential Fidelities Lawrence Lessig

The Free Constitution: The Real Genius of the Constitution Mary Sarah Bilder

The Obsolescence of the Originalism Battles John Witt

History or Memory?: Claims on the Past in Constitutional Argument Over Originalism, Civil War/Reconstruction, and MAGA Reva B. Siegel

In the Beginning There Was Positive Law: Section 25, Calder v. Bull , and Constitutional Continuity Kevin C. Walsh

Historians and Originalists Cass R. Sunstein

Yes, The Founders Were Originalists William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs

The Constitution and Historical Rupture Jonathan Gienapp

Discussion in the ATmosphere

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