The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment

Pittsburgh Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• Prof. Kurt Lash, Loyola Law School

Speaker:

• Prof. Kurt Lash, Loyola Law School

The Ninth Amendment is generally viewed as an obscure and unenforceable part of the Bill of Rights. However, recently uncovered historical evidence indicates that at the time of its enactment, and for more than a century afterwards, the Ninth Amendment was viewed as a critical limitation on the scope of federal power.

Professor Kurt Lash will discuss how this history was lost (and found), and the significance of applying the original meaning of the Ninth Amendment to contemporary debates over federal power and state autonomy.

Kurt Lash is the James P. Bradley Chair of Constitutional Law at Loyola Law School, where he has taught since 1993. His new book, The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment, is being published this month by Oxford University Press. Professor Lash graduated from Yale Law School and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit. He recently served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Constitutional Law.

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