On October 15, Chris participated in a Federalist Society debate, held in room 118, with Ken Klukowskion whether the Affordable Care Act contraception mandate violated the First Amendment or the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
On October 18 & 19, Chris, along with the other members of the 2013-14 Faculty Appointments Committee (which Chris chairs), interviewed 26 candidates at the Association of American Law Schools Faculty Recruiting Conference in Washington, D.C.
On October 30, I taught a mock class as part of Miami University’s Law Day in Oxford, Ohio.
Also, several of Chris’ articles were cited in October:
- Powers Reserved for the People and the States: A History of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments (2006), in Brielle Hunt, Student Author, Federalism as a Preventive Measure: Avoiding State Enforcement of Federal Anti-Gun Legislation in 2013, 17 Rich. J.L. & Pub. Int. 53 (2013);
- Reading the Law in the Office of Calvin Fletcher: The Apprenticeship System and the Practice of Law in Frontier Indiana, 1 Nev. L.J. 19 (2001), in Charles J. Crimmins, Teaching the Constitution: An American Tradition, 90 Denv. U. L. Rev. 1003 (2013); and
- Remanding to Congress: The Supreme Court’s New “On the Record” Constitutional Review of Federal Statutes, 86 Cornell L. Rev. 328 (2001), in David Parker, Student Author, Policing Procedure Before Substance: Reforming Judicial Review of the Factual Predicates to Legislation, 99 Va. L. Rev. 1327 (2013).