Webinar From the 19th to the ERA: Leser v. Garnett and the Validity of Constitutional Amendments

Webinar, University of Maryland Law, From the 19th to the ERA: Leser v. Garnett and the Validity of Constitutional

Monday, Feb. 28, 2022

Please join Paula A. Monopoli, Sol & Carlyn Hubert Professor of Law, to mark the centennial of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Leser v. Garnett on February 27, 1922, validating the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In Leser, a local judge had challenged the voter registration of two Baltimore City women, one Black and one white, on the theory that the woman suffrage amendment was “an unconstitutional constitutional amendment.” Hear two distinguished constitutional scholars discuss the connections between the Supreme Court’s analysis of the Nineteenth Amendment’s constitutional validity and today’s debates about the validity of the Equal Rights Amendment.

• Julie Chi-hye Suk, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law, and Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law & Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School

• Tracy A. Thomas, Seiberling Chair of Constitutional Law and Director, Center for Constitutional Law, University of Akron School of Law