Presents
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture in
Constitutional Law and Political Thought:
The Quest for Freedom
Federalism as an Individual Right:
The Lost History of the Ninth
and Tenth Amendments
Kurt Lash
Alumni Distinguished Professor of Law;
Director, Program on Constitutional Theory, History and Law,
University of Illinois College of Law
Author of The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment (Oxford University
Press, 2009) and The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and
Immunities of American Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Lewis Library 120
4:30 p.m.
James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
83 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08540
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison (609) 258-5107
Kurt T. Lash holds the Guy Raymond Jones Chair in Law at
the University of Illinois College of Law, where he directs the
Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law. Professor
Lash has written numerous books and articles on constitutional
law and American legal history, including The Lost History
of the Ninth Amendment (Oxford University Press) and The
Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of
American Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2014). His
articles appear in the Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review,
Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, Notre Dame
Law Review and Texas Law Review, and his scholarship has
been cited by both state and federal appellate courts, including
the United States Supreme Court. Professor Lash is currently
under contract with Chicago University Press to produce The
Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents, a threevolume set of historical materials relating to the adoption of the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. He earned his
B.A. at Whitman College and his J.D. at Yale Law School.