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  1. Barrett Calls Political Violence ‘Grotesque,’ Urges Civility (1)

    September 12, 2025

    Responding to a question Friday at the University of Notre Dame about political violence and the campus slaying of Kirk in Utah, Barrett lamented the way she said people increasingly handle differences, especially online.

  2. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett tells Notre Dame crowd to attack ideas, not people

    September 12, 2025

    SOUTH BEND — United States Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett visited the University of Notre Dame on Friday, Sept. 12, for the school's 2025 Jeanie Poole O’Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture, sharing insights into her career, legal perspectives and experiences balancing work and family.

  3. Notre Dame Alum, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks on campus

    September 12, 2025

    Friday's talk at Notre Dame comes after a week of travel for Barrett, who's been highlighting her book "Listening to the Law."

    Speaking on her lessons in the book Friday, during her conversation with Vincent Phillip Muñoz, director of Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, she said her role as a justice is to apply the law.

  4. Justice Amy Coney Barrett discusses book, constitutional originalism during Notre Dame visit

    September 12, 2025

    “I love the court and I love the Constitution, and I want to share it with people," Barrett said during a visit to the University of Notre Dame on Friday. "I want to invite people in. And I think it’s easier to have confidence in institutions when you understand them and you know what happens in them.”

  5. Justice Amy Coney Barrett to discuss new book at Notre Dame

    August 31, 2025

    Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett will visit the University of Notre Dame to discuss her upcoming book. 

  6. The Battle over the Ten Commandments in Schools Returns

    August 27, 2025

    In the past two years, both Louisiana and Arkansas have enacted laws that would mandate the presence of the Ten Commandments in public-school classrooms. But legal rulings—including from the Supreme Court—going back at least to 1980 have blocked precisely such measures. Richard Garnett explains that the issue has returned because the Court has moved away from the so-called Lemon test for evaluating religion-infused legislation, named after the 1971 case of Lemon v. Kurtzman.

  7. The Ten Commandments and a “secular purpose”

    August 20, 2025

    Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Notre Dame Law Professor Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

  8. The myth of academic freedom

    August 17, 2025

    Professor Patrick Deneen, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, writes about what he calls "the myth of academic freedom: [that] we believe in free expression for all -- except for those we despise."

  9. JD Vance Could Lead the Post-Liberal Elite — An Interview with Patrick Deneen

    August 04, 2025

    Patrick Deneen recently visited Hungary to participate in several discussions during the 5th MCC Feszt in Esztergom, organized by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, where he was also kind enough to sit down with Hungarian Conservative for a conversation. Topics included how Donald Trump’s second presidency has initiated the elite transformation proposed in his latest hit, who might carry that transformation forward once Trump is gone, and how these developments could affect Europe.

  10. From marginal religious groups to mainstream Christians, there's a shift in Supreme Court cases

    August 02, 2025

    Richard Garnett, who teaches classes on religious cases, discusses how the history of religious freedom in America has largely been shaped by legal cases involving minority religions.

  11. Defending the Declaration of Independence From the Far Left and New Right

    July 21, 2025

    RealClearPolitics podcast discussing Professor Muñoz's article, which addresses the Declaration of Independence. 

  12. Rescuing the Declaration From Left- and Right-Wing Polemics

    July 20, 2025

    Professor Phillip Muñoz and Professor Patrick Deneen tackle crucial interpretations of the Declaration of Independence, exploring its impact on American society and our understanding of freedom.

  13. Brown v. Board of Education: Separate Is Not Equal

    July 15, 2025

    Sherif Girgis, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, explains how and why this 1954 Supreme Court decision has had such a lasting impact on American life.

     

  14. ‘Public’ ≠ State’ Or ‘Government’

    June 25, 2025

    In its recent nondecision in St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic School v. Drummond, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an obtuse Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that excluded St. Isidore’s from the state charter school program. Notre Dame Law Professor Richard Garnett, in a fine article at Law & Liberty, explains why they got it wrong.

  15. An interview with Christina Bambrick

    June 18, 2025

    JMC Resident Historian Elliott Drago sat down with JMC Fellow Dr. Christina R. Bambrick to discuss her new book, Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere: A Comparative Inquiry (2025). Dr. Bambrick is assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.

  16. Supreme Court appears sympathetic to Catholic charter school using public funds

    April 30, 2025

    Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett comments on a Supreme Court case leaning in favor of an Oklahoma Catholic school being the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter institution.

  17. Holocaust Remembrance Day: Recognizing ‘the gravity of what happened’

    April 27, 2025

    A trip to Poland makes the horrors of the Holocaust really hit home, University of Notre Dame professor Emilia Justyna Powell told members of Temple Israel Valparaiso Friday during a Holocaust Remembrance Day service.

  18. Interview with Patrick Deneen: Catholicism, Democracy, and the Future of Political Order

    April 16, 2025

    Patrick Deneen spoke at the Tocqueville Center on Catholicism in America on April 15-16, 2024.

  19. 8 Facts About the Priest Seen at the White House With JD Vance

    March 18, 2025

    A much-viewed video of U.S. Vice President JD Vance giving a tour of the White House to a Catholic priest in a white habit on St. Patrick’s Day has drawn interest in the priest. Father Henry Stephan is a member of the Dominican order — hence the white cassock. The video shows Vance leading the priest into the White House Briefing Room and then through a back door further into the White House.

  20. Experts debate current state of global illiberalism

    March 03, 2025

    Patrick Deneen, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and Sam Moyn, a professor of law and history at Yale University, discussed illiberalism and post-liberal society, drawing upon examples of infringements on freedoms like free speech and decreased respect for democracy.