Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series

Jud Campbell is a professor of law and the Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and has been a visiting professor of law at the Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Chicago Law School. Tom West holds the Potter Chair in Politics at Hillsdale College. He...

Jud Campbell is a professor of law and the Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and has been a visiting professor of law at the Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Chicago Law School. His academic focus is constitutional history and First Amendment law...

Jud Campbell is a professor of law and the Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and has been a visiting professor of law at the Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Chicago Law School. His academic focus is constitutional history and First Amendment law...

The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all Notre Dame students, alumni, and the general public. The course, “1776: The Ideas that Made the Modern World,” will be taught by Vincent Philip Muñoz, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional...

The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all Notre Dame students, alumni, and the general public. The course, “1776: The Ideas that Made the Modern World,” will be taught by Vincent Philip Muñoz, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional...

The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all Notre Dame students, alumni, and the general public. The course, “1776: The Ideas that Made the Modern World,” will be taught by Vincent Philip Muñoz, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional...

While the concept of disenchantment has gained popularity over recent years as the way of addressing the malaise of modernity, is it really an adequate way of accounting for the iconoclasm that permeates our cultural moment? What is actually happening is something of profound religious significance, the moment when Nietzsche's famous Madman, dismissed in the nineteenth-century parable as insan...

The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all Notre Dame students, alumni, and the general public. The course, “1776: The Ideas that Made the Modern World,” will be taught by Vincent Philip Muñoz, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional...

In this public lecture, Sam Tanenhaus will explore the ways that Catholicism and Catholic interlocutors shaped and reshaped the thought of William F. Buckley Jr. on a variety of issues ranging from Church teachings to debates on communism, civil and human rights, family values, and free markets. Ten years before his death in 2008, Buckley chose Tanenhaus to tell the full uncensored story of his li...

The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all Notre Dame students, alumni, and the general public. The course, “1776: The Ideas that Made the Modern World,” will be taught by Vincent Philip Muñoz, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional...

In today's toxic battle between conservatives and progressives, sometimes truth and compassion take a backseat to winning at all costs. Justin Giboney, the author of  Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around , believes a movement from America's past can help us navigate through this moment more faithfully. He'll discuss how the Civil Rights generation would apply Christian principles to to...

Birzer's lecture will examine the confluence of ideas in 1776 between America and Scotland. The two most important Americans influenced by Scottish thought were James Wilson and James Madison (through Princeton). As such, Birzer will explore the intersection of rights and traditions as found in the Declaration of Independence and in the works of Adam Smith. It’s a perfect collision of the two...

The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all Notre Dame students, alumni, and the general public. The course, “1776: The Ideas that Made the Modern World,” will be taught by Vincent Philip Muñoz, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional...

The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all Notre Dame students, alumni, and the general public. The course, “1776: The Ideas that Made the Modern World,” will be taught by Vincent Philip Muñoz, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional...

Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics: science, universities, and serious journalism. Each was politicized and degraded under Covid, falling victim to the moral and epistemic tribalism that disfigures our politics and culture. Based on his book,  In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us,  co-authored with Frances Lee...

Join our distinguished panel for a discussion of "Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit" by William C. Mattison III. Growing in Virtue is the only comprehensive account of growth in virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Our conversation explores the intellectual rigor and accessibility of these topics, making them relevant to individuals of any or no religious affiliation, yet deeply ro...

Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, biblical scholar, and political theorist. He currently serves as the President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, and is the Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. Dr. Hazony is the author of "The Virtue of Nationalism and Conservatism: A Rediscovery." He graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in East Asian Studies and completed his Ph...

Christina Bambrick is the Filip Family Assistant Professor of Political Science specializing in constitutional theory. Her research and teaching interests range from American and comparative constitutionalism to republican theory and the history of political thought. Bambrick's book, "Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere: A Comparative Inquiry" (Cambridge 2025) examines the horizontal applicatio...

Alexander Chula is a Thai-British medical doctor and writer, living and working in London. He studied Classics at Oxford then medicine at the University of London. His first book, "Goodbye, Dr Banda," was published by Polygon in 2023. He has also written for The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and The Critic in the UK, and for The New Criterion and National Review in the US.Dr. Chula'...

Carson Holloway is Ralph Wardle Diamond Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. He is the author of "Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding?" (Cambridge University Press, 2015)...

John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among his many books include The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court (2023, with Robert Delahunty) and Defender-in-Chief: Trump’s Fight for Preside...

The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government is joined by Notre Dame Law School's Program on Church, State & Society and the Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic to host its inaugural True Lecture Series, programming made possible by Tad and Jenn True. John Witte, Jr. is Woodruff University Professor, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Law and Rel...

The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government is joined by Notre Dame Law School's Program on Church, State & Society and the Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic to host its inaugural True Lecture Series, programming made possible by Tad and Jenn True. John Witte, Jr. is Woodruff University Professor, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Law and Religio...

Join Charles R. Kesler, Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, as he discusses the editing process of the Declaration of Independence. With his understanding of American political thought and history, Professor Kesler shares insights into the role editors play in shaping our understanding of pivotal historical documents. Professor Kesler's narrative is filled with historical det...

This debate features two articulate law professors and former government officials with very different political perspectives:Professor John Yoo is the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, a Republican, former deputy assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush Administration, former general counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has served in a...