2018 Tocqueville Lecture: “Citizenship, Virtue, and the Constitution: Protecting Liberty and Preventing Tyranny”

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Location: Forum at Jenkins and Nanovic Halls (View on map )

The 2018 Tocqueville Lecture will be delivered by Robert P. George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

 

George has served as chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has also served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. George is also a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. His most recent book is “Conscience and Its Enemies” (ISI Books). George recently received a Leadership Award from the Heterodox Academy.

 

The lecture is free and open to the public. Media are welcome to attend the public lecture. For interview inquiries, contact Phillip Muñoz, Director of the Tocqueville Program, at (574) 631-0489.

 

Originally published at tocqueville.nd.edu.