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Timeline: Adrian Vermeule

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2022

  1. Vermeule's book Common Good Constitutionalism is published

    Polity published Adrian Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism, which drew critical reviews from originalist and natural-law scholars in the Harvard Law Review and Notre Dame Law Review, and from Randy Barnett (Volokh Conspiracy).

    SourcesWhat Common Good? (The American Prospect)The "Common-Good" Manifesto (Harvard Law Review)Recovering Classical Legal Constitutionalism: A Critique of Professor… (Notre Dame Law Review)Deep-State Constitutionalism (The Volokh Conspiracy (Reason))

2021

  1. Deneen, Pappin, Pecknold and Vermeule launch Postliberal Order

    Four Catholic academics, Patrick Deneen, Gladden Pappin, Chad Pecknold and Adrian Vermeule, began publishing the Postliberal Order newsletter in 2021; a 2024 academic article dates the decision to launch it to November 2021 (LARB, UKSW article).

    SourcesThe Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: On Sohrab Ahmari's "Tyranny, Inc." and… (Los Angeles Review of Books)[Journal article on the postliberal movement, PDF, 2024] (title reconstructed) (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (UKSW) journals)

2020

  1. Adrian Vermeule proposes "common-good constitutionalism" in The Atlantic

    In a March 2020 essay in The Atlantic, Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule argued that originalism had outlived its usefulness for conservatives and proposed a constitutionalism directed toward the common good. The Atlantic published rebuttals by Garrett Epps and Randy Barnett days later (ABA Journal, Harvard Crimson, RNS).

    SourcesForget originalism; some conservatives back 'common-good constitutionalism,'… (ABA Journal)The Theory, Born at Harvard, That Could Remake Right-Wing Jurisprudence (The Harvard Crimson)A new Catholic legal doctrine (Religion News Service)Beyond Originalism (Teaching American History (reprint of The Atlantic essay))