Maclain Conlin is a senior attending Carrollton Latin School who is passionate about constitutional law and North Carolina legal history. His work has appeared in the Carolina Journal, the Princeton Legal Journal, and the Originalist Angles Law Review, where he was recently appointed managing editor. He has won Moot Court competitions hosted by Yale, Duke, and UC San Diego, and his legal scholarship has been recognized by the University of Oxford as well as the Federal Bar Association. This past summer, he completed an internship with Justice Trey Allen of the North Carolina Supreme Court, and he looks forward to sharing the history of that remarkable Court with other high school students.
John Louis Taylor (1769 – 1829)
When the North Carolina Supreme Court was established in 1819, John Louis Taylor became its first chief justice, a post that he would hold until his death in 1829. During his time on the court, he would profoundly shape American law and establish the North Carolina Supreme Court as a source of new legal ideas....