Stare Decisis and Constitutional Text
Houston, Texas 77002
The Houston Lawyers Chapter
Speaker:
- Jonathan Mitchell, Solicitor General of Texas
Speaker:
- Jonathan Mitchell, Solicitor General of Texas
Almost everyone acknowledges that stare decisis should play a significant role when the Supreme Court of the United States resolves constitutional cases. Yet the academic and judicial rationales for this practice tend to rely on naked pragmatic considerations, and make only passing efforts to square the Court’s stare decisis doctrines with the language of the Constitution.
Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell will offer a qualified defense of constitutional stare decisis that rests exclusively on constitutional text. His approach aims to broaden the overlapping consensus of interpretive theories that can support constitutional stare decisis, but to do this it must narrow the circumstances in which stare decisis can be applied.
Cost: $10 for general admission / $5 for government employee
Click here to RSVP by March 21 . CLE credit requested. Seating is limited.
