Notre Dame - Constitutional Studies Lectures

Join us for a lecture by Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) on the future of American democracy. Congresswoman Liz Cheney serves as Wyoming’s lone member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was first elected in 2016 on a platform of restoring America’s strength and power in the world, and pursuing conservative solutions to create jobs, cut taxes and regulation, and expand America’s energy, mining and agriculture industries.

Rep. Cheney discusses the moment George Washington declined to run for a third term as President and the painting done by George Trumbull which depicted the moment. This painting now hands in the rotunda in the US Capital. Trumbull said the moment initiated the tradition of peaceful power transition in the United States. A tradition which Rep. Cheney says was not honored on January 6, 2021.

Learn more about the Notre Dame Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Studies: https://constudies.nd.edu/

Recorded October 14, 2022 at the University of Notre Dame.

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The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the University of Notre Dame, the College of Arts and Letters, or the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.

Alexandra DeSanctis Marr '16 is a staff writer for National Review and a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She co-authored Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing (2022) with Ryan T. Anderson.

Alexandra discusses the broader implications of abortion on both individuals and society at large, emphasizing the necessity of establishing a comprehensive pro-life stance. She argues abortion doesn't just affect the unborn, but also women, families, and societal structures. Drawing from here research for her co-authored book she explores why the pro-life argument extends beyond the moral status of the unborn, and addressing how abortion impacts relationships, law, culture, and medical ethics.

Learn more about The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government: https://constudies.nd.edu/

Recorded September 21, 2022 at the University of Notre Dame.

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The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the University of Notre Dame, the College of Arts and Letters, or the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.

Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. Professor Bejan writes about political theory and history, bringing past perspectives to bear on contemporary questions. She has written extensively on themes of free speech, civility, tolerance and equality in historical contexts ranging from ancient Athens to 20th-century analytic political philosophy.

Public lecture titled: "How to Protect Free Speech from Big Tech", by Philip Hamburger, Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Presented by the Notre Dame Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at the University of Notre Dame. More information at constudies.nd.edu

We kick off the Spring 2022 semester with a panel discussion on the future of American politics after Dobbs v. Jackson, "What Happens if Roe is (Not) Overturned?". Featuring former Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Prof. Sherif Girgis (ND Law School), and Prof. Christina Wolbrecht (ND Political Science), conversation will focus on the potential political and legal outcomes of one of the Supreme Court's most controversial cases of this term.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful enterprises. A first-generation American, he is the founder and Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences, a new type of biopharmaceutical company focused on the application of technology to drug development. He founded Roivant in 2014 and led the largest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016, eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA-approved products.

Mr. Ramaswamy was born and raised in southwest Ohio. He graduated summa cum laude in biology from Harvard in 2007 and began his career as a biotech investor at a prominent hedge fund. Mr. Ramaswamy continued to work as an investor while earning his law degree at Yale, where he was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. He was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2015 for his work in drug development. In 2020 he emerged as a prominent national commentator on stakeholder capitalism, free speech, and woke culture. He has authored numerous articles and op-eds, which have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Newsweek, and Harvard Business Review. Mr. Ramaswamy serves on the board of directors of the Philanthropy Roundtable and the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.

Join us for a lecture by Vivek Ramaswamy on his new bestselling book, "Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam."

Vivek Ramaswamy is a New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful enterprises. A first-generation American, he is the founder and Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences, a new type of biopharmaceutical company focused on the application of technology to drug development. He founded Roivant in 2014 and led the largest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016, eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA-approved products.

Mr. Ramaswamy was born and raised in southwest Ohio. He graduated summa cum laude in biology from Harvard in 2007 and began his career as a biotech investor at a prominent hedge fund. Mr. Ramaswamy continued to work as an investor while earning his law degree at Yale, where he was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. He was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2015 for his work in drug development. In 2020 he emerged as a prominent national commentator on stakeholder capitalism, free speech, and woke culture. He has authored numerous articles and op-eds, which have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Newsweek, and Harvard Business Review. Mr. Ramaswamy serves on the board of directors of the Philanthropy Roundtable and the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.

"Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics" Book Panel featuring authors David E. Campbell, Notre Dame; and Geoffrey C. Layman, Notre Dame. Panelists include: Scott Appleby, Notre Dame; Eileen M. Hunt, Notre Dame; and Andrew R. Lewis, University of Cincinnati. Presented by: The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government and the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy on August 27, 2021 at the University of Notre Dame. con studies.nd.edu

"Islam, Freedom, & Natural Law" by Mustafa Akyol of the Cato Institute.

Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, where he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. Since 2013, he has also been a frequent opinion writer for the New York Times, covering politics and religion in the Muslim world. Presented by the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government at Notre Dame, the Ansari Institute and World Religions World Church Program in the Notre Dame Theology Department on September 29, 2021. constudies.nd.edu

Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the 2021 Tocqueville Lecture on September 16, 2021 at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at Notre Dame.

Presented by the Notre Dame Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.

More information about the lecture can be found at constudies.nd.edu.

About Justice Thomas

Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, was born in the Pinpoint community near Savannah, Georgia on June 23, 1948. He attended Conception Seminary from 1967-1968 and received an A.B., cum laude, from College of the Holy Cross in 1971 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. He was admitted to law practice in Missouri in 1974, and served as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, 1974-1977; an attorney with the Monsanto Company, 1977-1979; and Legislative Assistant to Senator John Danforth, 1979-1981. From 1981-1982 he served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1982-1990. From 1990-1991, he served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. President Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and he took his seat October 23, 1991. He married Virginia Lamp on May 30, 1987 and has one child, Jamal Adeen by a previous marriage.

Private lecture delivered by Prof. John Yoo (University of California Berkeley School of Law) to Prof. Phillip Muñoz's Constitutional Law Class on April 13, 2021.

Prof. Yoo discussed the history and development of executive power and the Constitution, and shared stories from his time in Washington, D.C. on 9/11.

John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

His tenth book, Defender-in-Chief: Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, was published last year by St. Martin’s Press. Professor Yoo’s other books include Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War, Point of Attack: Preventive War, International Law, and Global Welfare, and Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George Bush.

Professor Yoo has served in all three branches of government. He was an official in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on national security and terrorism issues after the 9/11 attacks. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He has been a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and federal appeals Judge Laurence Silberman.

Professor Yoo graduated from Yale Law School and summa cum laude from Harvard College. At Berkeley, Professor Yoo directs the Public Law and Policy program and the Korea Law Center and is a winner of the Federalist Society’s Paul Bator award.