Notre Dame - Constitutional Studies Lectures

Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A former Dean of Yale Law School, Professor Kronman teaches in the areas of contracts, bankruptcy, jurisprudence, social theory, and professional responsibility. Among his books are Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life (Yale University Press, 2007), and his latest book, Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan (Yale University Press, 2016).

Presented by the Constitutional Studies Program and the Program of Liberal Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame.

Asma Uddin is author of When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America's Fight for Religious Freedom and the forthcoming The Politics of Vulnerability: How to Heal Muslim-Christian Relations in a Post-Christian America. She is an Inclusive America Project Fellow at the Aspen Institute, where she is leading a project on Muslim-Christian polarization in the U.S. Ms. Uddin was formerly legal counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and has held academic fellowships at Georgetown, UCLA, and Brigham Young University Law School. She is also an expert advisor on religious freedom to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Presented by the Constitutional Studies Program and Tocqueville Program on April 13, 2021

Jeremy D. Bailey holds a dual appointment in Political Science and the Honors College at the University of Houston. His research interests include executive power, constitutionalism, and American political thought and development. His recent publications include: The Idea of Presidential Representation: An Intellectual and Political History (University Press of Kansas, 2019), and James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Virtual debate hosted on April 1, 2021 by the Constitutional Studies Program between Jesse Wegman, New York Times, and Trent England, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.

Jesse Wegman is a member of the New York Times editorial board, where he has written about the Supreme Court and legal affairs since 2013. His recent book is Let the People Pick the President: the Case for Abolishing the Electoral College (St. Martin’s Press, 2020).

Trent England is the David and Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. He is also the founder and executive director of Save Our States, which educates Americans about the importance of the Electoral College. Trent is a producer of the feature-length documentary “Safeguard: An Electoral College Story.”

Presented by the Constitutional Studies Program and The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier.

James E. Fleming is The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. He writes on constitutional law and constitutional theory and is the author or co-author of five books, including: Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2015), Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard University Press, 2013), and American Constitutional Interpretation (4th ed., Foundation Press, 2008) (with Walter F. Murphy and Stephen Macedo of Princeton University and Sotirios A. Barber).

Recorded March 9, 2021

Presented by the Constitutional Studies program at the University of Notre Dame.

Check out our latest event, a panel on "The Second Trump Impeachment" with Benjamin Kleinerman (Baylor University), Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin), and John Yoo (University of California at Berkeley).

Panel recorded on February 3, 2021. Presented by the Constitutional Studies program at the University of Notre Dame and The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier.

About the Panelists:

Benjamin A. Kleinerman is a Professor of Political Science at Baylor University where he teaches classes on political thought and political institutions. He also is on the Board of Directors of the Jack Miller Center. Kleinerman is the author of The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power.

Jeffrey Tulis is Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book (co-authored with Nicole Mellow) is Legacies of Losing in American Politics (Chicago, 2018). Tulis authored The Rhetorical Presidency in 1987, considered the preeminent scholarship on the evolution of presidential rhetoric.

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 most recent book is Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, published July 2020.

This is a recording of our panel featuring Sohrab Ahmari, New York Post, and Yuval Levin, American Enterprise Institute. "Rethinking Conservatism After Trump" was recorded on Jan 26, 2021.

Sohrab Ahmari is the op-ed editor of the New York Post, a columnist for First Things, and a contributing editor of the Catholic Herald. Previously, he served as a columnist and editor with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London, and as senior writer at Commentary. His next book, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, will be published in May by Convergent/Random House.

Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. The founding and current editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor of The New Atlantis and a contributing editor to National Review. His most recent book is: A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream (Basic Books, 2020).

Presented by the Constitutional Studies program at the University of Notre Dame.

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Panel discussion with: Prof. Christina Bambrick (ND Political Science), Prof. Richard Garnett (ND Law School), Former Indiana Senator Joseph Donnelly, and Prof. Vincent Phillip Muñoz (ND Political Science)

Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield University, and the author of: The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). He is the editor of The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches (Hackett, 2016) and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2016).

Dr. Samuel Gregg is research director at the Acton Institute. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, ethics in finance, and natural law theory. He has an MA from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy and political economy from the University of Oxford.

Event presented by Constitutional Studies, the Tocqueville Program at the University of Notre Dame, and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.