Smith on Originalism in the Year Three Thousand @msmith750 @StMarys_Law @QuinnLRev

Michael L. Smith, St. Mary's University School of Law, is publishing Originalism in the Year Three Thousand in volume 43 of the Quinnipiac Law Review. Here is the abstract.

While procrastinating from grading at the end of the Spring 2024 semester, a series of mishaps led to my inadvertent teleportation to the year three thousand, where I found myself attending a conference consisting of top originalist legal scholars. This essay recounts what I was able to gather about the state of constitutional interpretation in the centuries to come and applies these insights to current quandaries over how to classify modern courts’ interpretive methodology.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.