Bradley Rebeiro is a PhD candidate in constitutional studies and political theory at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his J.D. from J. Reuben Clark School of Law in 2017, and his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 2014. Rebeiro’s research ranges from U.S. constitutional history to comparative constitutional inquiries. He studies the philosophy of law, as well as the influence of political thought on constitutional jurisprudence. His dissertation, Natural Rights (Re)Construction: Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Abolitionism, investigates the constitutional thought of Frederick Douglass and its influence in the Antebellum period and Reconstruction. He argues that Frederick Douglass had a robust theory of constitutional interpretation, informed by natural rights theory, which led Douglass to advocate for the Constitution as an anti-slavery document. Rebeiro argues that Douglass’s method later helped frame the way constitutional actors approached Reconstruction. Rebeiro will join the law faculty at J. Reuben Clark School of Law this fall, where he will teach courses on Property and the Fourteenth Amendment. In the fall of 2022, Rebeiro will take a sabbatical from BYU Law to clerk for Judge John K. Bush of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
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7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 2-A
Moscone Center South747 Howard St
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Douglass's Constitutionalism
South Dakota Student Chapter
Knudson School of Law414 E. Clark St.
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The Anti-Slavery Origins of Modern Federalism
Louisville Lawyers Chapter
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Louisville, KY 40202
Frederick Douglass and the Original Originalists
Salt Lake City Lawyers Chapter
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Salt Lake City, UT 84111