Lucien Ferguson
Invited Talks & Presentations
2024
Scoping Section 5, University of Mississippi Law School, Judicial Symposium on the Fourteenth Amendment, Oxford, MS
The Spirit of Caste, University of Toronto, Race, Ethics, and Power Project, Toronto, ON (available on YouTube & SoundCloud)
Constitutionalizing the American Dream, Junior Faculty Roundtable, Boston College Law School, Newton, MA
De-Lochnerizing the First Amendment, AALS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (AALS Hot Topic Program: Judicial Rights and Legislative Equality: The Future of Public Accommodations and the Polycentric Constitution after 303 Creative v. Elenis)
2022
Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Caste, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Frederick Douglass’ Caste Theory of Racism, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Selected Conference Participation
2024
Social Mobility & the Fourteenth Amendment, Summer Workshop Series, Boston College Law School, Newton, MA
2023
“There is No Caste Here”: Social Mobility and the Equal Protection Clause, MANCEPT Courts and Politics Workshop, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
On Repressive and Non-Repressive Law, 15th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University, Rome, Italy
2022
Anna Julia Cooper’s Anti-Caste Theory of Human Rights, American Political Science Association, Montreal, CA
Law, Rights, and Abolition: Contesting the Discursive Critique of Rights, 14th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University, Rome, Italy
2021
Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Caste, Association for Political Theory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA
Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Caste, American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA
Republicanism, Abstract Domination, and Slavery in the Americas, The Venice World
Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism, Venice International University,
Venice
The Politics of Anti-Caste: Rethinking the Political Limits of Equality Before the Law” Midwest
Political Science Association
Fourth Amendment Consent, JD-PhD Seminar, Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL
The Spirit of Caste: Caste Critique and the Contestation of Racial Subjection in the United States,
Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2020
The Concept of Civil Rights in the 19th Century, JD-PhD Seminar, Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL