8. N.b. that an honorarium of $4000 is available to authors of accepted papers. /end

7. acific Legal Foundation welcomes papers that look at the text and original meaning of the Constitution to understand this question, as well as papers exploring the current doctrine, popular understanding, and potential impact of a truly colorblind Constitution.

6. Against this backdrop, this research roundtable seeks to explore this concept of Constitutional colorblindness.

5. ...and a recent Pacific Legal Foundation review of academic literature on the colorblind Constitution found far more scholarly articles critical of the colorblind Constitution than the reverse.

4. Yet in recent years, the idea that the Constitution is colorblind has come under attack. Corporate diversity trainers routinely claim that praise for colorblindness is a “microaggression..."

3. Harlan’s rebuke to the majority opinion upholding Louisiana’s “separate but equal” system of segregated railroads has resounded ever since as a battle cry for equal protection under the law

2. "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law,” Justice John Marshall Harlan famously wrote in dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.

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6. Here's a link to the Call for Papers with details about how to submit a proposal: pacificlegal.org/call-for-pap...

5. ... a process that's retrospective and particular?

4. But using adjudication poses particular problems, including potential constitutional due process questions. Generally, legislating is prospective and general; adjudication, by contrast, is retrospective and particular. Is it fair and consistent with due process to make new rules through...

3. Supreme Court precedent generally allows agencies to create rules either through notice and comment rulemaking or adjudication.