Past Events
Michael J. Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Sponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs; Book sale/signing and reception to follow.
Michael J. Klarman is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School, where...
Cosponsors: The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, The Program in American Studies
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
Stuart Taylor, Jr. '70, Author; Contributing Editor, National Journal
The evidence that American universities are doing grave damage to our constitutional values -- largely disregarded by the public -- is sitting in plain view. Censorship of views disliked by the...
Cosponsor: The Program in Law and Public Affairs
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Gastón Espinosa, 2016-17 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life; Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religion, Claremont McKenna College
Professor Espinosa explores the religious influences on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and the critical role of race and religion in the 2016 election. He will expose the ways in which candidates...
Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, Emeritus; Senior Scholar in Politics and the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University; Introduction by Jill S. Dolan, Dean of the College; Annan Professor in English, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
Robert P. George holds Princeton’s McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence and is the founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He served as...
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Matthew J. Franck, Director, William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, The Witherspoon Institute; Lucas Morel, Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University; Diana Schaub, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland
This panel of distinguished scholars contribute to the discussion of Princeton's 2016 Pre-Read of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in the Defense of Equality by...
Abrahamic Faith in the “Age of Feeling” – Professor Robert George and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in Dialogue
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, President and Co-Founder, Zaytuna College; and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
Hamza Yusuf is President and Senior Faculty Member of Zaytuna College, America’s first accredited Muslim liberal arts college. He is an advisor to Stanford University’s Program in...
Cosponsor: The Muslim Life Program, Office of Religious Life
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Fergus M. Bordewich, Author, The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
In The First Congress, Bordewich tells the astonishing story of the most productive Congress in American history. When the members of the First Congress met in New York, in 1789, the new...
Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture
Frank H. Wu, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of Law;
Respondent: Stanley N. Katz, Lecturer with rank of Professor in Public and International Affairs; Director, Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
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Cosponsors: James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Program in American Studies, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Office of the Provost
Annual Princeton University Reunions Event
Mitch Daniels ‘71, President, Purdue University; Former Governor of Indiana; Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. ’71 is the 12th president of Purdue University, a post he assumed in January 2013 at the close of his term as Governor of Indiana. He was elected governor in...
May 16, 2016 to May 17, 2016
The Annual Robert J. Giuffra '82 Conference
Presentation of the 2016 James Q. Wilson Award for Distinguished Scholarship on the Nature of a Free Society to Allen C. Guelzo.
Presenter: Alan Charles Kors, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions
Keynote Address: Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era, Gettysburg College
Keynote Address: Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era, Gettysburg College
It is a sobering reflection that the progress of free institutions has often come at the cost of much blood spilled in the midst of rebellion and civil war. This is true of the great movements toward...
Cosponsor: The Association for the Study of Free Institutions at Texas Tech University