I lately appeared on Prof. Eric Segall’s “Supreme Myths” podcast. We talked about a number of topics, together with my e-book Free to Transfer: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, whether or not George Mason College (the place I educate) was justified in renaming its legislation college after the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and the state of originalism.
The Scalia renaming concern strikes me as far much less important than the others we talked about. However it has broader implications for each assessments of Scalia and the difficulty of which historic figures are worthy of being honored on this manner, and why.
It was an honor to seem on a podcast whose earlier visitors embrace quite a few distinguished authorized students and commentators, together with Volokh Conspiracy co-bloggers Randy Barnett, Orin Kerr, Eugene Volokh, and Keith Whittington, amongst others. As is obvious from the podcast, Eric Segall and I’ve many variations, together with on the matters of originalism and the Scalia renaming. However I commend him for his openness to civil debate and dialogue, with advocates of a variety of views, together with these he sturdy disagrees with.
I ought to notice my reminiscence failed me at one level within the podcast, once I mentioned the European Union has a inhabitants of 600 million. The proper determine is definitely about 447 million. I apologize for that mistake.