Constitution Day: "Virtue and Duty in Constitutional Politics"
September 18, 2025
4-5 p.m. – Free!
Moot Courtroom
CSU College of Law - 1801 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115
Join us for a discussion led by Professor Christina Bambrick, the Filip Family Assistant Professor of Political Science that will examine the conventional understanding of liberalism. From a civic perspective, prior research and scholarship has developed the idea of "liberal virtues" and from the perspective of constitutional thought, scholars and jurists have increasingly extended the reach of constitutional rights to create duties for private actors, a phenomenon known as the horizontal application of rights.
Quite often liberal commitments and institutions are criticized for fostering rights-obsessed citizens adding to polarization in terms. of civic and constitutional modifications.
About the speaker:
Christina Bambrick is the Filip Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in constitutional theory, with interests in comparative constitutionalism, American constitutionalism, and the history of political thought. Bambrick's book, Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere: A Comparative Inquiry, was published with Cambridge in 2025. It examines the horizontal application of rights to non-state actors in comparative constitutionalism, specifically in the United States, India, Germany, South Africa and the European Union. Bambrick received her doctorate in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and taught at Clemson University before coming to Notre Dame.