Memory Warriors, Pluralists, and Abnegators in Constitutional Interpretation: An Essay on Jack Balkin's Pluralist Originalism in Memory and Authority

Texas A&M Law Review 2026 Open access

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Authors: Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Zachary Shugerman Handelsman
DOI: 10.37419/lr.v13.i2.4
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Abstract

One of the most compelling and generative aspects of Jack Balkin’s Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation is its synthesis of constitutional theory, history, and the growing field of the “politics of memory,” and especially the concept of the “memory entrepreneur.” The book project itself is entrepreneurial, if you will, in its cultivating, connecting, and building from different disciplines, academic languages, and national narratives (in that the “politics of memory” is already such an international and interdisciplinary field itself).

Fields of Study & Subjects

American Constitutional Law and Politics Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies Judicial and Constitutional Studies

Publication details

Journal / source
Texas A&M Law Review
Volume
13
Issue
2
Pages
609–623
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN