Panelists:
William M. Carter, Jr., University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Jennifer Mason McAward, Notre Dame Law School
Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
David Upham, University of Dallas
Moderator: Randy E. Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center
December 2015 marked 150 years since the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment—an occasion of singular moral, political, and legal importance in American history. This panel reflects on that past with an eye toward the future. While the Amendment plainly outlaws slavery itself, does it go beyond that, or authorize Congress to go beyond that, and if so, how?