Lee J. Strang is John W. Stoepler Professor of Law and Values at the College of Law, University of Toledo, Ohio. In 2015, Professor Strang was a visiting scholar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, and in 2016 he was appointed to the Ohio Advisory Committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights. The University of Toledo, Ohio awarded Professor Strang its Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award in 2017. During the 2018-19 academic year, Professor Strang was a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, New Jersey.
Introduction; Part I. A Description of Originalism: 1. A brief history of
originalism in American constitutional interpretation; 2. The
constitutional communication model of originalism; Part II. Originalism is
the Best Explanation of our Existing Constitutional Practice and the Most
Normatively Attractive Theory of Constitutional Interpretation: 3.
Originalism is the best explanation for our existing constitutional
practice; 4. Originalism best advances Americans' human flourishing: the
law-as-coordination account of originalism; 5. Conclusion; Index.
