Cultivating Citizenship. Creating a Free and Virtuous Society.
Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government seeks to cultivate thoughtful and educated citizens by supporting scholarship and education concerning the ideas and institutions of constitutional government.
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Potenziani Minor in Constitutional Studies
The core mission of the Center is to educate, mentor, and support students during their academic careers at Notre Dame and beyond. In the classroom, we teach students the principles of constitutional government, the American political tradition, U.S. constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism, and more. Building on courses across the College of Arts & Letters, the Potenziani Minor in Constitutional Studies is designed to encourage students to confront fundamental questions concerning justice, the rule of law, and human flourishing.
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Professors review major SCOTUS cases of the term, highlights upcoming proceedings
September 22, 2026
In honor of Constitution Day, the University of Notre Dame‘s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government hosted a 2025-2026 Supreme Court review on Friday afternoon. Speakers included law professor and director of the Program on Church, State & Society Richard Garnett and law professor Derek Muller.
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Sherif Girgis joins the Harvard Law faculty
September 21, 2026
Harvard Law School announced that Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government Faculty Affiliate Sherif Girgis will join its faculty as a tenured professor of law, effective January 1, 2027. Girgis, a renowned scholar in constitutional law and philosophy who has taught at Notre Dame Law School since 2021, previously served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in spring 2026.
