POL 315 Constitutional Interpretation
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program [Dist. Area: SA]

This course is a study of the structure of the American constitutional system and of the meaning of key constitutional provisions. Students will critically evaluate competing theories of, and approaches to, constitutional interpretation.

POL 490 Integrity and Political Responsibility
Instructor: Dr. R.J. Snell, Visiting Lecturer [Dist. Area: EM or SA]

Dissidents from the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, among others, considered integrity of thought and word to be exercises of political responsibility. The work of the philosopher or author was political engagement, just as such, since tyranny was possible because of ideology, “the lie”. Political participation and freedom remained for those who thought and spoke the truth as they understood it. This seminar explores a select group of dissidents, each of whom encouraged the “solidarity of the shattered” through the political responsibility of the intellectual, existential, and spoken truth.*

*N.B.: This course is not open to First Year Undergraduates. First year students who are interested in taking this seminar should email Dr. Snell ([email protected]).

POL 316 Civil Liberties
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the James Madison Program [Dist. Area: CD or EM]

POL 563 / PHI 526 Philosophy of Law
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the James Madison Program
*Please note: this course is open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students only.

POL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship: The Art of Statesmanship and the Political Life
Instructor: Shilo Brooks, Lecturer in Politics and Executive Director of the James Madison Program [Dist. Area: EM or LA]

POL 488 / HUM 448 / AMS 488 Secession, the Civil War, and the Constitution
Instructor: Allen Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar, Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship [Dist. Area: DA]

FRS 166 Power and Morality in Greek Literature
Instructor: Adam Thomas, Assistant Director of the James Madison Program [Dist Area: EM or LA]
*Please note: this is a seminar for first-year students only.

POL 315 Constitutional Interpretation
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program [Dist. Area: SA]

This course is a study of the structure of the American constitutional system and of the meaning of key constitutional provisions. Students will critically evaluate competing theories of, and approaches to, constitutional interpretation.

POL 491 / CLA 491 / HUM 490 The Politics of Higher Education: Competing Visions of the University
Instructor: Allen Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; John Londregan [Dist. Area: SA]

This course will examine the history, contemporary reality, and likely future of higher education, especially in the United States but also abroad. We will consider the changing and often conflicting ideals and aspirations of parents, students, instructors, and administrators from classical Rome to Christian institutions in the European Middle Ages to American athletic powerhouses today, seeking answers to fundamental practical, economic, and political questions that provoke vigorous contemporary debate.

POL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship: The Art of Statesmanship and the Political Life
Instructor: Shilo Brooks, Executive Director of the James Madison Program and Lecturer in Politics

POL 316 Civil Liberties
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program

POL 563 / PHI 526 Philosophy of Law
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program

FRS 130 Contours of American Thought
Instructor: Allen Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship

POL 315 Constitutional Interpretation
Instructor: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions

POL 331 / HUM 305 Abraham Lincoln Politics: Concepts, Conflict, and Context
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director, Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship

FRS 183 The Collapse of Civilization
Instructor: Shilo Brooks, Assistant Director of the James Madison Program and Lecturer in Politics

POL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship: The Art of Statesmanship and the Political Life
Instructor: Shilo Brooks, Assistant Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in the Department of Politics

POL 493 The Philosophy of Law in America
Instructor: R.J. Snell, Director of Academic Programs, The Witherspoon Institute

POL 494 Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Inquiry
Instructor: Marc DeGirolami, Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics; Cary Fields Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and Religion at St. John's University

FRS 130 Contours of American Thought
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship

FRS 184 Virtues and the Meaning of Life in Different Cultures
Instructor: Ronen Shoval, 2022-23 Associate Research Scholar; Ph.D. in Jewish Political Thought, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense

FRS 103 Contemporary Natural Law Theory
Instructor: Thomas Howes, 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Research Associate; Ph.D. in Philosophy, Catholic University of America 

FRS 105 American Identity at a Crossroads?
Instructor: Nasser Hussain, 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Politics; Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University 

POL 488 / HUM 488 / AMS 488 Secession, the Civil War, and the Constitution
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship

FRS 146 Central Dilemmas of Israeli Politics
Instructor: Benjamin Schvarcz, 2021-2022 Postdoctoral Research Associate; Ph.D. in Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

POL 491 / CLA 491 / HUM 490 Politics of Higher Education: Competing Visions of the University
Instructors: Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program; McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities

FRS 105 American Identity at a Crossroads?
Instructor: Nasser Hussain, 2021-22 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate; Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University 

POL 315 Constitutional Interpretation
Instructor: Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program; McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence 

POL 332 / HUM 339 Topics in American Statesmanship: Abraham Lincoln's Politics: Concepts, Conflict and Context
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities

FRS 128 The Most Sacred of All Property: The Philosophical Case for Protecting Religious Liberty
Instructor: Thomas D. Howes, 2020-2021 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate 
 

POL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship: Woodrow Wilson: Progressive, Villain?
Instructor: Matthew J. Franck, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in Politics 

HUM 363 / AMS 364 Writing Lincoln: Biography, Film, Literature
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities

POL 488 / HUM 488 / AMS 488 Secession, the Civil War, and the Constitution
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities

HIS 471 / HUM 471 / AMS 471 Abraham Lincoln and America, 1809-1865
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship; Senior Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities

POL 320 Judicial Politics
Instructor: John Kastellec, Associate Professor of Politics

POL 325 The Presidency and Executive Power
Instructor: Lauren A. Wright, Associate Research Scholar in Politics and Public Affairs

POL 326 Constitutional Difficulties in the Age of Trump
Instructor: Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics

POL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship -- The Early American Republic: Judicial Career of John Marshall
Instructor: Matthew Franck, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in Politics

FRS 114 Uncompromising Political Perfection: Plato, Huxley, and Our Future EM
Matthew Franck, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in Politics

FRS 172 Alexander Hamilton: The Life, Thought, and Legacy of an American Original HA
Bradford Wilson, Executive Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in Politics; Faculty Fellow, Butler College​

POL 332 American Statesmanship -- The General as Statesman: Allied Leadership and Operation OVERLORD ​HA
Kevin J. Weddle *03, 2018-19 Spring Garwood Teaching Fellow; Professor of Military Theory and Strategy, US Army War College

FRS 110 War, National Security, and the Constitution SA
Michael Stokes Paulsen, Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas; Spring 2018 Visiting Professor in Politics and James Madison Program Visiting Fellow

FRS 172 Alexander Hamilton: The Life, Thought, and Legacy of an American Original HA
Bradford Wilson, Executive Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in Politics; Faculty Fellow, Butler College​

POL 488 Secession, the Civil War, and the Constitution HA
Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professorof the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College; 2017-18 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting Fellow

*POL 332 (HA): Topics in American Statesmanship - Abraham Lincoln
Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College; 2017-18 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting Fellow

FRS 164: The Idea and the Reality of Justice
David F. Forte, 2015-16 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting Fellow

POL 332: Topics in American Statesmanship - The Successful President
David F. Forte, 2015-16 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Garwood Visiting Fellow

FRS 195: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. EM
Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, Emeritus; Senior Scholar, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions