University Constitution Day Lecture
The Program in American Studies organizes the University’s annual Constitution Day lecture, commemorating the September 17, 1787 signing of the United States Constitution and exploring permutations of constitutional law to the present day.
Lecture Archive
Constituting Justice: Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign
Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 4:30 pm
Speaker(s):
F%*# Free Speech: An Anthropologist’s Take on Campus Speech Debates
Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 4:30 pm
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Who Belongs? The Limits of American Citizenship
Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 4:40 pm
Speaker(s):
Frank H. Wu
UC Hastings College of the Law
Slavery and the U.S. Constitution
Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 4:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Sean Wilentz
Department of History
Sarah Rivett
Department of English
Search and Seizure in the Snowden Era
Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 4:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Rush Holt
U.S. Representative, New Jersey's 12th Congressional District
Two Roads from 1787: Elective Dictatorship or Deadlock?
Wed, Sep 18, 2013, 4:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Alan Ryan
The Belief in Things Unseen: Frederick Douglass and the Constitutional Imagination
Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 4:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Imani Perry
Professor of African American Studies
Labor and the Constitution: What Rights Do Americans Have in the Workplace?
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 4:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Paul Frymer
Associate Professor of Politics
The Constitution in a Time of War: The Trial of Minoru Yasui
Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 4:30 pm
Speaker(s):
The Honorable Denny Chin
United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit
How Small Emergencies Undermine Big Constitutional Principles
Mon, Sep 21, 2009, 4:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Kim Lane Scheppele
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School
George W. Crawford
Professor of Law, Yale Law School