The Progressives’ Century: Democratic Reform and Constitutional Government in the United States

Chair: Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School

Panelists:

Eldon Eisenach, University of Tulsa
"A Progressive Conundrum: Federal Constitution, National State, and Popular Sovereignty"

Aziz Rana, Cornell University
"Progressivism and the Disenchanted Constitution"

Ken I. Kersch, Boston College
"Constitutional Conservatives Remember the Progressive Era"

Discussant: Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School

Chair: Samuel DeCanio, Yale University

Panelists:

Michael McGerr, Indiana University
"Progressivism, Liberalism, and the Rich"

Nicole Mellow, Williams College
"The Wrong Fit: Eugenics and the LImits of the Progressive Idea of Party"

Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia
The Progressive Party and the Rise of an Executive-Centered Party System"

Discussant: David Mayhew, Yale University

Keynote Speaker: Professor James Kloppenberg, Harvard University
"Progressivism and the Obama Presidency"

Chair: Judith Resnik, Yale Law School

Panelists:

Paul Frymer, Princeton University
"Rights at the Closing of the Frontier"

Karen Orren, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Progressive Century: Rights — Whatever 'Rights' Means"

Brian Z. Tamanaha, WUSTL School of Law
"The Progressive Struggle with Courts: A Problematic Asymmetry"

Discussant: Jack Balkin, Yale Law School

Chair: Jacob Hacker, Yale University

Panelists:

Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
"A Century of Reason: How Expertise Won and Democracy Lost"

John Skrentny, University of California, San Diego
"The Alchemy of Employment: The Bipartisan Faith in Technological Innovation to Create Jobs, Grow the Economy and Make Everything Better"

Steven Teles, The Johns Hopkins University
"How the Progressives Became the Tea Party's Bete Noir"

Discussant: Jerry Mashaw, Yale Law School

Chair: Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale Law School

Panelists:

Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University
"Completing the Constitution: How Progressive-Era Economic Regulation Perfected Article I, Section 8"

Richard Epstein, NYU Law School & U. of Chicago School of Law
"The Progressive's Deadly Embrace of Cartels: A Close Look at Labor and Agricultural Markets 1890-1940"

Discussant: Jennifer Klein, Yale University

Chair: Vesla Weaver, Yale University

Panelists:

John Milton Cooper, University of Wisconsin
"From Promoting to Ending Big Government"

Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College
"Toward a More Inclusive Community?  The Legacy of Female Reformers in the Progressive State"

Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
"Progressivism and the Claims of American Political Community in the 20th adn 21st Centuries"

Discussant: Seyla Benhabib, Yale University