The Constitution in 2020

• Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, with features from some of America's leading legal minds (Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, Robert Post, Harold Koh, Larry Kram, Noah Feldman, Pam Karlan, William Eskridge, etc.)
• A manifesto of progressive constitutionalism for the decades to come.
• The Constitution in 2020 collection gives the country's top constitutional scholars an opportunity to speak in the role of engaged citizens, rather than in their roles as legal academics or social scientists.
• Speaks directly to an engaged public in terms that the public can appreciate, articulating the core commitments of our constitutional tradition in ways that address the concerns of the next generation.

Readership: General readers and students interested in the constitutional law, new technologies, presidential power, religious liberty, and international human rights.

Jack M. Balkin, Professor, Yale Law School, and Reva B. Siegel, Professor, Yale Law School

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, and the Founder and Director of Yale's Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and the new information technologies. Professor Balkin teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, telecommunications and Internet law, first amendment law, cultural and social theory, and jurisprudence. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the author of over 80 articles on constitutional and legal theory. He has written op-eds and commentaries for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the L.A. Times, the Hartford Courant, the New Orleans Times Picayune, the Washington Monthly, and the New Republic Online. He also runs a weblog, Balkinization, at http://balkin.blogspot.com. Reva B. Siegel is Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law and Deputy Dean of Yale Law School, where she teaches constitutional la

antidiscrimination law, and legal history, and serves as faculty advisor to the American Constitution Society chapter. Professor Siegel's writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality, and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. Much of her recent work analyzes how progressive and conservative movements have struggled to shape constitutional law in matters concerning race, sex, and the family over the last several decades. She is currently writing a series of articles exploring the genesis of the "traditional family values" coalition and the evolving strategies of the anti-abortion movement.

I. Introduction
Preface and Acknowledgements:
Jack Balkin and Reva Siegel (Yale Law School), The Constitution in 2020
II. Interpreting Our Constitution
Jack Balkin (Yale Law School), Fidelity to Text and Principle
Robert Post and Reva Siegel (Yale Law School), Democratic Constitutionalism
III. Social Rights and Legislative Constitutionalism
Cass Sunstein (University of Chicago), The Minimalist Constitution
Frank Michelman (Harvard Law School), Economic Power and the Constitution
William Forbath (University of Texas), Social and Economic Rights in the American Grain
Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law School), State Action in 2020
Robin West (Georgetown Law Center), The Missing Jurisprudence of Legislated Constitutionalism
Jack Balkin and Reva Siegel (Yale Law School), Remembering How To Do Equality
IV. Citizenship and Community
Bruce Ackerman (Yale Law School), The Citizenship Agenda
Goodwin Liu (Boalt Hall Law School), National Citizenship and the Promise of Educational Opportunity
Rachel Moran (Boalt Hall Law School), Terms of Belonging
Richard Ford (Stanford Law School), Hopeless Constitutionalism, Hopeful Pragmatism
V. Democracy and Civil Liberties
Pam Karlan (Stanford Law School) , Voting Rights and the Third Reconstruction
Larry Kramer (Stanford Law School), Political Organization and the Future of Democracy
Robert Post (Yale Law School), A Progressive Perspective on Freedom of Speech
Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School), Information Structures and the Constitution of American Society
Jack M. Balkin (Yale Law School), The National Surveillance State
Tracey Meares (Yale Law School), The Progressive Past
VI. Protecting Religious Diversity
Noah Feldman (Harvard Law School), The Framers' Church-State Problem and Ours
William Marshall (University of North Carolina), Progressives, The Religion Clauses and the Limits of Secularism
VII. Families and Values
William Eskridge (Yale Law School), A Liberal Vision of American Family Law in 2020
Dawn Johnsen (Indiana University), A Progressive Reproductive Rights Agenda for 2020
John Podesta and Mark Agrast (Center for American Progress), Genetic Technology in 2020
VIII. State, Nation, World
Judith Resnik (Yale Law School), What's Federalism For?
Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law School), Progressive Constitutionalism and Transnational Law
David Cole, (Georgetown Law Center) "Strategies of the Weak": Thinking Globally and Acting Locally Toward a Progressive Constitutional Vision