Past Events
Chaim Saiman, Professor of Law, Villanova University, Leora Batnitzky, Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion, Princeton University
Cosponsors: The Tikvah Fund, The Ronald O. Perelman Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University
Daniel Mahoney, Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship, Assumption College; Eugene F. Rivers, III, Founding Director, Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies; David L. Tubbs *01, Associate Professor of Politics, The King's College. Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of King's Death and the Centenary of Solzhenitsyn's Birth.
Daniel J. Mahoney holds the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption...
Gerard V. Bradley, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School; William S. Brewbaker III, William Alfred Rose Professor of Law, University of Alabama; Samuel J. Levine, Director of the Jewish Law Institute and Professor of Law, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School. Moderated by Chaim Saiman, Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Each of the Abrahamic religious traditions relates to the idea of law in a variety of different ways: as covenant between God and man, as an ordering principle of natural and human behavior, or as a...
Cosponsor: Princeton University Library
Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution; Commentators: Gillian Metzger, Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Eric Nelson, Robert M. Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University, Jeffrey Tulis, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas, Amanda Tyler, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Professor McConnell’s lectures will address executive power and its limits under the U.S. Constitution. His lectures will argue that the actual process of formulating the executive power at the...
Cosponsor: James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School
The anti-discrimination laws were passed with great confidence in the 1960s and yet in the eyes of their intended beneficiaries, these programs have not achieved their initial promise, whether we...
Cosponsor: The Program in Law and Public Affairs
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
R. R. Reno, Editor, First Things
Using Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies as a departure point, R. R. Reno argues that the political consensus guiding the West since 1945—emphasizing openness and lowering the...
Arthur Brooks, President, American Enterprise Institute
The secret to stronger human connection isn't more data -- it's better stories. By learning to share our narratives -- and paying closer attention to others -- we can become more effective and more...
Cosponsors: Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Leadership Through Mentorship Program, Woodrow Wilson School, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Rick Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California-Irvine School of Law
In conversation with Keith Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Free and open to the public. Lunch is provided.
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Stuart Lecture Series on Institutional Corruption in America
Shep Melnick, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics, Boston College
How did Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972—initially a relatively non-controversial effort to remove institutional barriers to educational opportunity for women and girls—become so...
Keynote Address by Tisa Wenger *02, Associate Professor of American Religious History, Yale Divinity School
Conference organized by Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande and Toni Alimi, Religion
Cosponsors: James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, Department of Religion, University Center for Human Values, Program in Judaic Studies, Humanities Council, Near Eastern Studies, Center for Collaborative History, Program in American Studies, The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities