CHICAGO—October 3, 2013—IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law will celebrate Constitution Day with a panel discussion that will focus on issues related to same-sex marriages. The panel discussion, “When Did It Become Unconstitutional for States to Ban Same Sex Marriage?: Constitutional Interpretation in the 21st Century” will be held October 10 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the law school’s Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium, 565 West Adams Street (between Clinton and Jefferson streets) in Chicago.
IIT Chicago-Kent Professor Steven Heyman will moderate a discussion of Hollingsworth v. Perry, a challenge to California’s Proposition 8, and United States v. Windsor, a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Panelists will discuss the decisions and what they signify about recent trends in judicial interpretation of the Constitution. George Mason University School of Law professor Ilya Somin will join IIT Chicago-Kent professors Katharine Baker and Carolyn Shapiro on the panel.
The program, which is free and open to the public is co-sponsored by the Jack Miller Center (JMC), IIT Chicago-Kent’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States (ISCOTUS), the Chicago-Kent Lambdas, and the IIC Chicago-Kent chapters of the American Constitution Society and The Federalist Society. For more information or to R.S.V.P., please contact Professor Christopher Schmidt at cschmidt@kentlaw.iit.edu or (312) 906-5389.