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Resisting Federal Constitutional Rights
This talk examines public resistance to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Bill of Rights and the Reconstruction Amendments. Often viewed as ideological conflict or majority rule overriding individual rights, such resistance may instead reflect important questions about consent, democracy and the protection of constitutional rights.

Alvin Padilla-Babilonia is an Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law. His scholarship focuses on the constitutional legacy of American colonialism and the relationship between law, race, and empire. He is interested in exploring what we can learn about constitutionalism through the history of colonialism, as well as how constitutionalism constrains democracy and decolonization. Padilla-Babilonia’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Duke Law Journal, University of Puerto Rico Law Review, among others.