Join Oregon Humanities for a conversation with Akhil Reed Amar, one of the country’s leading thinkers on constitutional law. We’ll explore how equality has been a core part of our laws, history, and self-understanding, and consider how we strive toward this ideal today. We’ll also dig into the arguments and assumptions that informed the U.S. Constitution, how it has evolved over the past 238 years, and what the future may hold for our nation’s most basic laws.
Amar teaches constitutional law at Yale University. He is the author of several books about constitutional law and history, including America’s Unwritten Constitution, The Constitution Today, and, most recently, Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920.
The event will be streamed live on YouTube and at public viewing parties in Clatskanie and La Grande.
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