The CCCG joins the ND American Constitution Society in hosting a discussion on the power of campaign money in judicial elections.
On Monday, March 18 in Eck 1130, Michael S. Kang and Joanna M. Shepherd join Notre Dame Law School to discuss their new book, Free to Judge: The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections…
Alexander Chula is a Thai-British medical doctor and writer, living and working in London. He studied Classics at Oxford then medicine at the University of London.
His first book, Goodbye, Dr Banda, was published by Polygon in 2023. He has also written for The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and The Critic in the UK…
Book Chapter Workshop for Sam Piccolo (Gustavus Adolphus, Political Science) with distinguished guest discussant, David Temin (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Political Science).…
Eileen M. Hunt is a Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame. She is the author or editor of ten books on topics ranging from tracing the place of the family in Enlightenment political thought to charting the legacies of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) for children's rights, bioethics, and AI ethics. Her latest book—The First Last Man—…
More event details, including location, will be announced soon.
Carson Holloway is Ralph Wardle Diamond Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. He is the author of Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding?…
The CCCG joins the ND American Constitution Society in hosting a lecture on protecting competition in the American economy.
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Antitrust Division, joins ACS at NDLS to discuss his advocacy for strong and meaningful antitrust enforcement and competition policy. Mr. Kanter has been a partner in the Washington, D.C. offices of two national law firms and was the founder of a boutique antitrust law firm dedicated to promoting antitrust enforcement. Mr. Kanter began his career as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition. He earned his J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and his B.A. from State University of New York at Albany.…
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Connections Series events are specially designed for faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs to strengthen our sense of community, highlight the work of interdisciplinary institutes, centers, and other academic units, and build a culture of scholarly connection across disciplines, colleges, and schools.
During the spring 2024 semester, the the Connections Series will focus on the new Strategic Framework…
Featuring David R. Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University April 10-12, 2024 Professor David Armitage, a leading scholar of political thought and international law, will give a trio of lectures on the topic of his next book—on the surprising connections between opera and international thought—which will be open to all students, faculty, and the public. All lectures and receptions will be held in the Morris Inn's Smith Ballroom.…
Featuring David R. Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University April 10-12, 2024 Professor David Armitage, a leading scholar of political thought and international law, will give a trio of lectures on the topic of his next book—on the surprising connections between opera and international thought—which will be open to all students, faculty, and the public. All lectures and receptions will be held in the Morris Inn's Smith Ballroom.…
Joe Soss is the inaugural Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Service at the University of Minnesota, where he holds faculty positions in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Sociology. His research and teaching explore the interplay of democratic politics, societal inequalities, and public policy. He is particularly interested in the political sources and consequences of policies that govern social marginality and shape life conditions for socially marginal groups. His coauthored book, Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (2011), was selected for the 2012 Michael Harrington Award (APSA, New Political Science) and the 2012 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award (ASA, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities), the 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award (American Library Association), and the 2015 Herbert Simon Award (APSA, Section on Public Administration). In 2010, he received the campus-wide Outstanding Faculty Award from the University of Minnesota's Council of Graduate Students (COGS). In 2013-14, he served as Dale T. Mortensen Senior Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. In 2016, Professor Soss was honored with the University's campus-wide award for outstanding contributions to graduate education, named a Distinguished University Teaching Professor, and inducted into the UMN Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Outside his academic work, Soss is an active musician and recently released an album, The Sound of Sweet Ruin.…
Featuring David R. Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University April 10-12, 2024 Professor David Armitage, a leading scholar of political thought and international law, will give a trio of lectures on the topic of his next book—on the surprising connections between opera and international thought—which will be open to all students, faculty, and the public. All lectures and receptions will be held in the Morris Inn's Smith Ballroom.…
Professor Thurston's research is on American political development, political economy, and public policy, with a particular interest in how politics and public policy shape market inequalities along the lines of race and gender. She is the author of At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination and the American State (Cambridge University Press, 2018), her research has been published in Studies in American Political Development; Politics, Groups, and Identities; and the Journal of Public Policy, and commentaries have appeared in The Daily Beast, Ms., and The Monkey Cage (Washington Post), among others.…
The CCCG joins the ND American Constitution Society in hosting Stephen Vladeck to discuss his new book.
Stephen Vladeck, the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law, joins NDLS to discuss his New York Times bestselling book, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic." Professor Vladeck is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts, constitutional law, national security law, and military justice. He has argued over a dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and various lower federal civilian and military courts. Learn more about Professor Vladeck here.…
Kalin (McKenzie) Bennett is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on intergroup attitudes, ethnocentrism, social justice movements, political psychology, and the principle-policy gap.
Bennett's research focuses on White allyship, specifically examining predispositions and the crystallization of attitudes into behavioral manifestations. Her ongoing projects delve into establishing causal links between cognitive orientations and observable behavioral aspects of White allyship. Furthermore, she investigates the impact of performative allyship on social justice objectives and goals.
Jaclyn Kaslovsky is an Assistant Professor at Rice University who specializes in American politics. Her research focuses on Congress, representation, and women in politics. In her current work, Professor Kaslovsky analyzes how legislators choose to allocate their resources, including their time and staff, and the effect of these choices on the legislator-constituent relationship. In doing so, she seeks to provide an update to the traditional “home-style” literature that explains congressional members’ attention to their home districts. Professor Kaslovsky's other projects leverage unique time series and congressional speech datasets to explore the consequences of increasing diversity in Congress for representation and how legislator behavior has evolved over time.…
Notre Dame Graduate Conference in Political Theory and Constitutional Studies. All day, panel times TBD, with one at our regular Colloquium time of noon-2pm.…