Past Events
The Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles
James W. Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
Endowed by the late Herbert "Wiley" Vaughan, founding member of the Madison Program's Advisory Council, the Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles is an endowed Princeton...
Rémi Brague, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I)
Professor Brague suggests that it is commonly admitted that the present struggle is fought between theocracies and democracies. Now, "theocracies" are not always the rule of priests. The word was...
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Jack Wade Nowlin, Associate Professor of Law and Jessie D. Puckett, Jr., Lecturer in Law University of Mississippi
Professor Nowlin’s talk engages a significant but often neglected question in American constitutional law: Whether the U.S. Supreme Court can itself be said to violate the Constitution through an...
Cosponsor: The Pace Center
September 16, 2005 to September 17, 2005
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In Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980), John Finnis did for the tradition of natural law theory what his great teacher, H.L.A. Hart, had done 20 years earlier in The Concept of Law for the...
Cosponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Reverend Jim Wallis, Founder of Sojourner Magazine and Cornel West, Princeton University
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Nat Hentoff, Columnist, The Village Voice; Stuart S. Taylor, Jr., Columnist, National Journal; John Yoo, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Moderator: Keith E. Whittington, Associate Professor of Politics and Acting Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
Moderator: Keith E. Whittington, Associate Professor of Politics and Acting Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
Panel in the Woodrow Wilson School's Princeton Colloquium on Public & International Affairs, “Rethinking the War on Terrorism”
William Scheuerman, University of Minnesota; George Kateb, Princeton University; Jan-Werner Muller, Princeton University
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Cosponsors: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies [PIIRS], Council of the Humanities, University Center for Human Values
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Hadley Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions, Amherst College; Consulting Scholar, James Madison Society
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
Gary J. Jacobsohn, Patterson-Banister Professor of Government and H. Malcolm Macdonald Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Law, University of Texas at Austin
This very special annual lecture celebrates the work of the late Walter F. Murphy, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, Princeton University, and his dedication to excellence in the study...
Randy E. Barnett, Austin B. Fletcher Professor at Boston University School of Law
Cosponsor: University Center for Human Values