A Nation of Litigants? Lawsuits from the Founding to Today
The Founders Gave Us the Tools Series
In this Federalist Society America 250 series, experts analyze modern legal and policy debates through the lens of the Founding generation. The Founders gave us the tools to answer many contemporary questions; join us as we explore those answers.
Americans often lament that ours has become an unusually litigious society. But litigation was also a prominent feature of life in colonial America and the early Republic, and many leading Founders were themselves lawyers, litigants, or both.
Were Americans of the Founding era more litigious than Americans today? Did lawsuits play a different role in their society? How did the Founders understand the proper place of courts and lawyers in a republic? Join our panel for a discussion of litigation from the Founding to today and what the Founding generation's experience can teach us about the place of lawsuits in American life now.
Featuring:
- Prof. Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law and Director, Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law; Director, Classical Liberal Institute, Civitas Institute University of Texas at Austin
- Prof. Diego Zambrano, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Global Programs, Faculty Director for the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law, Stanford University
- (Moderator) Michael Buschbacher, Managing Partner, Boyden Gray PLLC
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