We are pleased to announce the winners of the “my body, my choice” essay competition! You can click on the individual’s names to read their essay. 1st place: Renxi Li 2nd place: Aaron Dorf 3rd …
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Disinvited Dinner
The Disinvited Dinner celebrates and affirms a culture of free speech and First Amendment principles, the importance and meaning of academic freedom, and the search for Truth by offering a platform to someone whose speech …
New Publication
Read Graduate Fellow Kirsten Birkhaug’s new essay, “What we can find between the pages”, in The Constitutionalist.
Join the CSLD Catholic Social & Political Thought Spring Reading Group!
Join as at Meiklejohn House from 7:00 – 8:30 pm every other Tuesday this semester as we work our way through St. Augustine’s Confessions! A masterful work of theology and political theory, Augustine’s account of his …
New Issue of Constitutional Studies Now Available!
Ft. articles by Mark Graber, Jeffrey Tulis, Anna Fruhstorfer, Fruzsina Gardos-Orosz, Yaniv Roznai, Gary Jacobsohn, Miguel Schor, Howard Schweber, and Joesph Cozza.
New Publication
CSLD’s Philip Bunn has published a new article, “Transcendent Rebellion: The Influence of Simone Weil on Albert Camus’ Esthetics” (Perspectives on Political Science, 2021).
Call for Papers: MCSII Civil Liberty Symposium, April 18-19 2022
The Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation (MCSII) will host its third annual Civil Liberty Symposium April 18 and 19, 2022. Paper/session proposals are invited on any topic pertaining to civil liberties or their relationship to institutions and innovation.
Deadline for proposal submission: Friday, January 28, 2022
Article enters third month on Cambridge Core Most Read Article list!
Richard Avramenko and Brianne Wolf‘s article, Disciplining the Rich: Tocqueville on Philanthropy and Privilege, enters third month on Cambridge Core Most Read Article list!
2021 Undergraduate Essay Scholarship Awards
Thank you to all who submitted for the Undergraduate Essay Competition this year. Our topic was: “Should the United States make military or national service compulsory?” Congratulations to our top 3 scholarship recipients and two …
Lawmaking in a Pandemic
The Plague, Power, & Policy: Lawmaking in a Pandemic conversation held last week is posted on our YouTube channel. Check it out!