2026 Quinlan Lecture at OCU Law

Legal Realism, Originalism, and the Problem of Natural Rights – presented by Professor Jud Campbell, Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School

The Founders' belief in natural rights underlies several parts of the U.S. Constitution. But that belief eroded in the early Twentieth Century with the rise of legal realism. This lecture will trace these developments and explore the challenges they pose to constitutional interpreters today.

About the lecturer:

Jud Campbell is a professor of law and the Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and has been a visiting professor of law at the Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Chicago Law School. His academic focus is constitutional history and First Amendment law. His publications include articles in the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Texas Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, and Law and History Review. After completing his J.D. at Stanford Law School, he clerked for Judge Diane S. Sykes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and for Judge José A. Cabranes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then served as the Executive Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and two master’s degrees from the London School of Economics, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.

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