9/18/2025 CSU|LAW Constitution Day Program

On Thursday, September 18, 2025, CSU|LAW is presenting a Constitution Day program at 4pm in the Moot Court Room – Virtue and Duty in Constitutional Politics.  The speaker will be Christina Bambrick, Filip Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame.  The program will examine two proposals to shore up liberal institutions and political life that involve modifying conventional understandings of liberalism – “liberal virtues” and “horizontal application of rights.”  Inasmuch as liberal commitments and institutions are criticized for fostering atomized, rights-obsessed citizens, liberal virtues and horizontal application may meet these short-comings by drawing from such age-old concepts as virtue and duty.  However, these proposals also invite questions about how such civic and constitutional modifications ultimately fit within the larger liberal tradition.  The CSU|LAW Constitution Day program is free, and there is a Zoom registration option.  September 17 is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787, as well as “recognizes all who, by coming of age or by naturalization, have become citizens.” [See Pub. L. No. 105-225, § 106, 112 Stat. 1255, August 12, 1998.]