Liberties and the American Constitutional Experience
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Britain Today is part of the 2016 Contextual Lecture Series: Taking Liberties.
Recent scholarship by UK scholars has revised the conventional understanding of what the episode called "Magna Carta" actually was about, and how that revised portrait of Magna Carta might affect the way the episode has traditionally been understood by American constitutional scholars, historians, and lawyers. Also addressed will be the question of how the joint experiences of residents of the UK and US with constitutions and with authoritative sources of law generally, have differed, and what the implications of those differences might be for contemporary law and policy in both nations.
Prof G. Edward White is David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law and University Professor, University of Virginia. White is the author of sixteen books, on subjects ranging from legal and constitutional history to judicial biography to the life of Alger Hiss to baseball. Author: Law in American History: Volume Two: From Reconstruction Through the 1920s, OPI 2016
