Join the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and the Federalist Society for the Ten Year Anniversary Gala at the National Archives in DC.

About this event

The Georgetown Center for the Constitution, founded in 2012, offers a variety of programs on constitutional law and theory at Georgetown Law, placing special emphasis on how best to remain faithful to the Constitution's text.

Join us at the National Archives for our Second Annual Gala to celebrate the Center's Ten Year Anniversary and the 2022 Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize and Judicial Lecture.

Co-Sponsored by the Federalist Society, the Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture will be given by the Honorable Don R. Willett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

The Center will award the fifth annual Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 to Professor Michael W. McConnell of Stanford University for his book, The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power Under the Constitution (Princeton University Press, 2020).

On Saturday morning, the center will host an exclusive program at Georgetown Law with Professor Michael W. McConnell to discuss his book.

Dress Code: Black Tie Optional

The Georgetown Center for the Constitution established the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, Symposium, and Judicial Lecture to recognize exceptional books written that advance our understanding of, and commitment to, our written Constitution. The Cooley Book Prize, Judicial Lecture, and Symposium honors the renowned legal scholar and jurist Thomas McIntyre Cooley. Cooley was a longstanding chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where he also served as the dean. He authored several highly influential books, including A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union.

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