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  1. ‘Free Exercise’ Documentary Shares Tenured Story of America’s Fight for Religious Liberty

    February 04, 2025

    Richard Garnett of the University of Notre Dame School of Law is featured a documentary that recounts how the Founding Fathers enshrined the free exercise of religion into the American experiment, the ongoing religious landscape, and current challenges related to faithful observance. 

  2. Catholics back new pro-family agenda on technology and human flourishing

    February 04, 2025

    Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan T. Anderson, author and University of Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen, and Princeton University’s Robert P. George are among the 28 signatories of the declaration on technology, “A Future for the Family: A New Technology Agenda for the Right.”

  3. Where will the Supreme Court draw the church-state line in the Oklahoma school case?

    February 03, 2025

    "It's a mistake to think of the United States as a 'Christian nation,' even though, of course, Christians and Christianity have, from the beginning, played important roles in American law and life," University of Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett told me.

     

  4. ‘We have been living under a lawless regime’: Catholics celebrate Trump overhauls

    January 21, 2025

    “We have been living under a lawless regime for quite some time,” said political theorist and University of Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen in two Jan. 20 posts on X lambasting the outgoing Biden administration and praising the new president for emphasizing a “common sense” approach to public policy.

  5. Trump’s intellectuals will betray his base

    December 11, 2024

    Trump is back, as garish and triumphant as ever. But this time, and far more than his victory in 2016, he comes with friends. I don’t just mean the Hegseths and Lutnicks of the world — I mean intellectual backers, some with real heft, and who in different ways shape and reflect Trump’s worldview in economics, education and law. Appropriately for someone as idiosyncratic as the President-elect, they come from many sources. Some, like Patrick Deneen, are genuinely serious intellectuals. Others, like Raw Egg Nationalist, are little more than internet trolls.

  6. How Religious Were the Founders?

    December 02, 2024

    Join Jane Calvert, author of Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson, Vincent Phillip Muñoz, author of Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses, and Thomas Kidd, author of God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution, for a discussion on religious liberty and the founders. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

  7. Notre Dame Law School hosts symposium on the philosophical foundations of legal precedent

    November 18, 2024

    Notre Dame Law School hosted the Symposium for Philosophical Foundations of Precedent on October 31 at the University of Notre Dame. Speakers included Sherif Girgis, Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School. The symposium featured insights from a number of guest scholars, as well, including Notre Dame Law professors Paolo Carozza, Randy Kozel, Samuel Bray, Jeff Pojanowski, Francisco Urbina, and Richard Garnett.

  8. Jay Bhattacharya discusses research, takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic

    November 18, 2024

    On Nov. 15, the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government held its last event of the semester, “The End of Free Speech is the End of Science.” Co-sponsored by the College of Science, the two-hour long event featured speaker Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy at Stanford University.

  9. Governor Ron DeSantis speaks while student protesters gather in opposition

    November 11, 2024

    On Friday afternoon, Florida governor Ron DeSantis spoke in DeBartolo Hall, discussing his tenure as governor of Florida and the future of the conservative movement. The lecture was hosted by the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government and was this year’s Jeanie Poole O'Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture.

  10. Author, Distinguished Scholar Vincent Phillip Muñoz Visits Taylor

    November 11, 2024

    As part of its annual observance of Constitution and Citizenship Day, on Wednesday, September 25, Taylor hosted Dr. Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. 

  11. Ron DeSantis visits Notre Dame, speaks on campus

    November 08, 2024

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis today gave a lecture on the Notre Dame campus. In addition to giving a lecture, DeSantis participated in a seminar with students.

  12. Civility in Disagreement: John Yoo and Harry Litman Engage in Lincoln-Douglas Debate

    November 08, 2024

    Ahead of Notre Dame’s matchup with Stanford on Oct. 12, two Californians assembled on Notre Dame’s campus for an entirely different type of confrontation. John Yoo and Harry Litman — both prominent law professors and former government officials, but with opposing political views — met to engage in a political and legal debate on matters relevant to the upcoming presidential election. 

  13. Return of the ‘full armor of God’: Ron DeSantis to deliver post-election speech at Notre Dame

    November 05, 2024

    “One of our aims at the center is to inspire Notre Dame students to become leading citizens who serve the public good. We do that, in part, by introducing them to our nation’s current leaders, especially leading Catholic politicians,” said Center Director Vincent Phillip Muñoz.

     

  14. Notre Dame Law Professor Discusses Religious Freedom

    November 05, 2024

    On Monday, Notre Dame Law school professor Richard W. Garnett delivered a timely lecture titled “Freedom of Religion in Catholic Teaching and Constitutional Law.”

     

  15. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to Visit Notre Dame This Week

    November 04, 2024

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is coming to Notre Dame on Friday.

    He’ll be speaking at 4 p.m. at DeBartolo Hall. The university says DeSantis will speak as part of the school’s program on the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.

    In addition to giving a lecture, DeSantis will participate in a seminar with students.

    All tickets for the event have been allocated, but the talk will be livestreamed on the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government’s YouTube channel.

  16. Saving Religion from Incoherence

    January 28, 0025

    It should not be surprising that this set of attitudes has found its way into American constitutional law. It has been accepted and even promoted by jurists and scholars who embrace very different methodological commitments, originalist and otherwise. The consensus persists even though the historical record at the founding suggests, as Professor Vincent Phillip Muñoz has argued, a comparatively narrow, but well-defined set of criteria concerning the worship of God and relating to, as James Madison put it, “the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it.”