{"id":154490,"date":"2019-09-20T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=154490"},"modified":"2019-09-20T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T20:20:17","slug":"symposium-devoted-work-professor-richard-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/09\/symposium-devoted-work-professor-richard-kay\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium Devoted to Work of Professor Richard Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scholars from around the world gathered at the UConn School of Law to celebrate Professor Richard Kay <\/a>and his body of work in constitutional law on Friday, September 13, 2019.<\/p>\n

The conference, entitled \u201cOriginal Constitutionalist: Reconstructing Richard Kay\u2019s Scholarship,\u201d explored Kay\u2019s extensive works in constitutional interpretation and comparative constitutional law, including his book \u201cThe Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law,\u201d a historical study of the relationship between revolution and legality<\/p>\n

Richard KayThe conference was organized by Dr. Yaniv Roznai, a senior lecturer at the Radzyner School of Law Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel, who had studied Kay\u2019s writing and corresponded with him extensively but did not meet him until 2018. Hearing that Kay had retired, he felt a \u201cfestschrift,\u201d or tribute, was in order.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it could be a way to give back, just a little bit, and pay tribute to one of the giants in our field,” Roznai said. He also noted Kay\u2019s kindness in reviewing the work that Roznai sent him over the years. \u201cNotwithstanding me being a junior scholar in the early stages of my career, he happily read and commentated on the working papers I sent him, and his ideas and remarks were very helpful and thoughtful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four panels included scholars from around the United States and five other countries: Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The panels covered \u201cOriginalism, Construction and Intent,\u201d \u201cRules of Recognition, Constitutional Chronometry and Interpretation,\u201d \u201cConstituent Power and Constitutional Change,\u201d and \u201cReligion, Equality and Change.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of the day-long event, Kay thanked the audience and panelists, and remarked on the caliber of intelligent thought presented at the symposium. \u201cIt would almost make you weep, the intelligence and insight that our speakers have shown,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe process of scholarship to me has been like writing notes, and then putting them in a bottle and sealing the bottle and tossing it over the side into the sea, in the hope, usually the vain hope, that someone somewhere will find that bottle, open it up and read what I said,\u201d Kay told the audience.<\/p>\n

He thanked those in attendance for \u201cnoticing those bottles on the beach, picking them up and taking a look.\u201d The conference, he said, \u201cis certainly the most satisfying moment in my long professional life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kay, the Wallace Stevens Professor of Law Emeritus, joined the UConn School of Law faculty in 1974. He hold an AB from Brandeis University, an MA in economics from Yale University and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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