Online Symposium: Chicago-Kent Law Review symposium, “Who Belongs? The Contested History of Birthright Citizenship.”

Tomorrow on Zoom is the Chicago-Kent Law Review's Fall 2026 Symposium, "Who Belongs? The Contested History of Birthright Citizenship."

The symposium runs from 9:45 AM to 4:00 PM CT. The schedule and registration link can be found here. (You must register to receive a Zoom link.)

Presenters

Evan Bernick, Associate Professor of Law, Northern Illinois University College of Law, No Regrets: Reactionary Constitutionalism and the Limits of Collegiality

Allison Brownell Tirres, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, Memory Games and “Misbegotten Aims”: The Uses of History in Trump v. Barbara

Erin Delaney, Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, University College of London, TBD

Sam Erman, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Jus Soli Nation to Jus Soli Evasion: International Lawyers for White Supremacy and the Road through Wong Kim Ark

Lucien Ferguson, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Douglass in Barbara: The Black Constitutional Origins of Birthright Citizenship

Paul Gowder, Frederic P. Vose Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, The Worst Anti-Citizenship Arguments

Anthony Michael Kreis, Associate Professor, Georgia State University College of Law, Rules for a Recidivist Republic

Mark D. Rosen, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Fragmentation, Consensus, Stickiness

Rachel Rosenbloom, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, Making Sense of the Barbara Dissents: The Long View

Christopher W. Schmidt, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Persons, Plyler, and Birthright Citizenship: The Fourteenth Amendment’s Other Jurisdiction Problem

Carolyn Shapiro, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Reliance, Disruption, and the Birthright Citizenship Case