Category Archives: About Anastaplo

A postscript, by George Anastaplo, for his letter published in The University of Chicago Magazine, May-June 2012, p. 10.

An article by Richard Martens (“One Door Closes”), in The University of Chicago Magazine (March/April, 2012, Cover, pp. 40-47) recalled the career of George Anastaplo, a University of Chicago alumnus.  The article was linked on March 8, 2012 and posted … Continue reading

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University of Chicago Magazine article (with letters)

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Richard Mertens has written an article about George Anastaplo for The University of Chicago Magazine (print edition Mar-Apr, 2012, link originally posted 03/08/12).  The online version of the full issue can be viewed by clicking here. The article itself is linked below … Continue reading

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A Study in Naiveté—A Confession of Sorts

George Anastaplo Dare to be naïve. —Buckminster Fuller (1975) Prologue              I presume to provide on this occasion (a few hours before the Greek Orthodox Easter) a confession of my serial indulgences in naiveté. Perhaps … Continue reading

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Explication De Constitution

Thomas Engeman George Anastaplo: The Constitution of 1787: A Commentary (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. Pp. i-xx, 340. $10.95.) This is a unique and intelligent work of Constitutional interpretation. George Anastaplo, a professor of law at Loyola University … Continue reading

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Our Character is Our Fate: The Constitutionalism of George Anastaplo

Our Character Is Our Fate: The Constitutionalism of George Anastaplo George Anastaplo, The Constitution of 1787: A Commentary (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). Cited in the text as (I: – ). George Anastaplo, The Amendments to the Constitution: A Commentary … Continue reading

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Foreword to the 2005 Re-issue of George Anastaplo, THE CONSTITUTIONALIST

Foreword to the 2005 Re-issue of George Anastaplo, THE CONSTITUTIONALIST: Notes on the First Amendment  (Southern Methodist University Press, 1971; Lexington Books, 2005) Laurence Berns I. This fascinating eight-hundred-and-forty-page book is really three books, and more.1 First is the text, a … Continue reading

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Review of Reflections on Constitutional Law by Philip A. Dynia

REFLECTIONS ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, by George Anastaplo Reviewed by Philip A. Dynia, Department of Political Science, Loyola University New Orleans. George Anastaplo, Professor of law at Loyola Chicago School of Law and lecturer in liberal arts at the University of … Continue reading

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Reminiscences of Greece during a Christmas Season

This article was published in The Greek Star, Chicago Illinois, December 24, 2009: I have been asked, once again, to supply a Christmas piece for The Greek Star.  One such contribution provided, in the December 23, 2004 issue of this newspaper, my … Continue reading

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Harry Kalven on George Anastaplo’s Bar Admission Case

Professor Harry Kalven, Jr. had been one of George Anastaplo’s teachers at the University of Chicago Law School (1948-1951). The passage set fourth below is taken from Harry Kalven, Jr., A Worthy Tradition:  Freedom of Speech in America, edited by Jamie … Continue reading

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George Anastaplo, Human Being and Citizen – WBEZ interview – 9/1/95

Andrew Patner: We are going to talk this morning about George Anastaplo, a Chicagoan who is a frequent guest on this program. Professor Anastaplo was the subject of a panel discussion at the American Political Science Association convention now going … Continue reading

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