How did citizens understand corporate power at the Founding? What were the rights, privileges, and limits on corporations, and how did the rights of corporations compare to those of individual citizens? Should the fact that significant elements of the corporation–including their creation and ability to operate across state lines–were privileges granted by the state affect our thinking on corporate rights? And how does contemporary thinking about corporate rights align with founding-era understandings?

Prof. Julia Mahoney, John S. Battle Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Hon. Doha Mekki, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Ryan Newman, General Counsel, Executive Office of the Governor, State of Florida
Lael Weinberger, Fellow, Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School
Moderator: Hon. Julius "Jay" Richardson, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit