Here’s a puzzle for my frazzled mind:
This summer, the Georgetown Center for the Constitution will again offer its week-long “boot camp” on originalism in theory and practice, open to students from all law schools, as well as to recent law school graduates. The 2019 Summer Seminar will run from May 20-24. It features an all star roster of professors and jurists decribing the cutting edge of originalism theory, as well as how best to utilize it in practice. It includes adherents of different variations of originalism, as well as a critic of originalism. As in past years, we will visit the Supreme Court of the United States.
Students attending the Originalism Summer Seminar will receive a $2,000 award for their participation. The five-day course runs from Sunday evening, May 20 to Friday evening, May 24, 2019. Morning sessions beginning at 8:00 a.m. followed with a daily luncheon and afternoon meetings each day. A reception and dinner will be held on on May 22 and the week concludes with a farewell reception on May 24. The application season closes February 15, 2019.
Students will receive an award for participation? What, these students have to be bribed to hear the presentations? Generally, this runs the other way – you pay for your boot camp, whether it’s academic, avocational, or sports, not get paid. Makes me wonder. I hope those students can bring the proper skepticism to what appears to be a controversial theory & practice.
The smart ones will refuse the payment.
