CONFERENCE: “Who Gets to Make Law?”

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

Friday, April 28, (Sternberg Salon, French House/ Honors College)

3:30 – 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture: J. Budziszewski, “Who Gets to Make Law?” [VIDEO]

5:00 pm, Reception

Saturday, April 29, (218 French House/ Honors College)

10:00 – 11:15 am, Panel One: The Constitutional Tradition

Mary Keys, “Augustine’s Constitutionalism”

Murray Dry, “Executive Power in the Founders’ Constitution and American Constitutionalism Today”

11:15 – 11:30 am, coffee break

11:30 am – 12:45 pm, Panel Two: Democratic Inclusion?

Nichole Bauer, “Women! Who Cares? Do They Really Matter?”

Albert Samuels, “Reconstruction, Reaction, Rinse, and Repeat”

12:45 – 1:45 pm, lunch

1:45 – 3:00 pm, Panel Three: J. Budziszewski, “Recap: Who Gets to Make Law?”

 

Press Release — coming

 

CONFERENCE DETAILS:

On behalf of the Eric Voegelin Institute, I’m very pleased to announce a faculty-student conference at Louisiana State University on Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29: “Who Gets to Make Law?.”  

We begin Friday afternoon at 3:30 pm with a keynote lecture by J. Budziszewski, Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas.  Author of a number of books, including several extensive commentaries on parts of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica and several books on natural law, Dr. Budziszewski blogs as The Underground Thomist.

Dr. Budziszewski’s lecture will be held in the Sternberg Salon of the French House on the LSU campus, home of the Ogden Honors College, and a reception will follow.  The lecture will be available live via Zoom as well.

On Saturday we will have three sessions, with discussions led by faculty panelists, focusing on different issues related to our topic.  (These can also be attended on Zoom if you prefer.). Panels will begin at 10:00 am and will conclude at 3:00 pm. Panelists will include Nichole Bauer, Associate Professor of Political Science, LSU; Murray Dry, Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College; Mary Keys, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame;  and  Albert Samuels, Professor of Political Science, Southern University.  Panels will be held in French House 218, home of the LSU Ogden Honors College.   Lunch will be served.

The conference is open to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty from any university in the region, as well as interested members of the public.  For additional information, feel free to contact me at poston@lsu.edu or call the number below.

Parking is available on the LSU campus in the lot behind the Visitor’s Center at the corner of Highland and Dalrymple; also, there should be room in the garage attached to the Barnes and Noble bookstore.  (On Saturday, you should be able to park on the streets if you prefer.)

We hope you can join us for what we anticipate will be a lively and enlightening couple days.