Study

The Public Law Colloquium is the flagship offering of the Richard A. Horvitz Program in Constitutional and Public Law. The goals of this two-credit Colloquium are to expose students to the academic enterprise, by workshopping works-in-progress by leading law professors, and to develop deeper knowledge in a particular area of public law. The theme of the Colloquium in Fall 2025 will be “Constitutional Crisis and Economic Order.”

The Colloquium will revolve around six workshops in which professors from other law schools will present works-in-progress falling within the themes of the course. Those workshops will meet in the lunch hour on alternate Thursdays. Students will be expected to engage with the speaker and with each other in discussion. Faculty interested in these topics also will be invited to attend and participate in the discussions. During weeks when speakers are not in attendance, the class will meet with the instructors on Thursday afternoons (4 to 5:50 pm) to discuss the paper for the next workshop. These classes will engage the paper and also develop the broader theme that the paper addresses; we may assign background reading in that area to support appreciation and assessment of the paper’s argument.

Grades will be based on short response papers totaling about 30 pages for the semester and on the quality of students’ participation in workshops and discussions.

Special Notes:

The speakers dates are 9/11, 9/25, 10/9, 10/30, 11/13 and 12/4.

Fall 2025

Course Number	Course Credits	Evaluation Method	Instructor
583.01	2	Research and/or analytical paper Class participation	Tim Meyer, Jedediah Purdy
Canvas site: https://canvas.duke.edu/courses/65712