The Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy

What is law?

Professor Steven Smith discusses how America’s founders answered this question and what their answer might offer originalist theories of Constitutional interpretation in his plenary lecture at our Fixing the Federal Courts Symposium in October.

Watch as @JordanBallor shares about our student programs in an interview with Greg Forster of the Karam Fellowship (karamfellowship.org) published earlier this fall.

Apply for our fully funded fellowship programs here: crcd.net/programs/.

You've still got time to sign up for this month's continuing legal education with JWI and CRCD! This Wednesday, November 11 at 2:00 pm, consider a "Requiem for Criminal Justice" with Gerry Bradley.

jameswilsoninstitute.org/events/requiem…

This weekend, scholars gathered at our fall faculty seminar to discuss excerpts from Tocqueville alongside selected works of 19th century American literature. It was a fruitful time of learning about the cultural and religious milieu of early America.

Fall into November with the RWR! We're diving into The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk. Enjoy this week's excerpt and let us know what you think.

crcd.net/review/excerpt…