On February 5, Professor Richard Kay will present his paper, "Constituent Authority," at the Second Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Professor Kay has been on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Law since 1974 and is currently the Wallace Stevens Professor of Law. He teaches courses in constitutional law, comparative law and commercial law. He is treasurer of the American Comparative Law Society and an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He is a past chair of the Constitutional Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Kay has been an invited speaker and panelist at numerous academic conferences in the United States and abroad. He is the co-editor of European Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 3d. ed. 2008) and Standing to Raise Constitutional Issues: Comparative Perspectives (Bruylant, 2005) and the author of more than fifty articles and reviews on constitutional law, constitutional theory and comparative law.