Next week, on Friday, January 3, between 5 and 6:15 PM, I will be doing a presentation on my next book, tentatively entitled The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain at the Federalist Society’s annual faculty conference. This will be a preview of the book, which will be the first book-length treatment by a legal scholar of Kelo v. City of New London – one of the most controversial decisions in the modern history of the Supreme Court, and the important constitutional property rights issues it raises. The book considers Kelo from the standpoint of both originalist and living constitution theory, and also has the most complete analysis to date of the enormous political reaction that Kelo generated. I have completed a first draft of the book, but will be making revisions over the coming months.
The Federalist Society conference will be held in parallel with the annual AALS conference nearby. I will be presenting as part of a panel focusing on works in progress. If you are coming to the AALS conference and are interested in constitutional theory, property rights issues, or eminent domain, I hope you will consider dropping by. Legal blogosphere mavens may be interested to know that Dan Markel of Prawfsblawg, a leading criminal law scholar, will be presenting a paper as part of the same panel.
UPDATE: In the initial version of this post, I accidentally forgot to include a link to the Fed Soc faculty conference’s website. I have now fixed that problem.