Law and Politics

2020 MLK Celebration Luncheon – A Conversation with Civil Rights Leader Diane Nash

The fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Luncheon sponsored by the Office of the President and the Oversight Committee on Diversity and Inclusion had Diane Nash as the...

On the EU, Allies, and the State of European Democracy

Janne Matláry is a professor of international politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Defence University College. A specialist...

The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and Ethiopian Peacebuilding

Kroc Institute Communications Program Director, Hannah Heinzekehr, talks with Peter Wallensteen, the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies, and Kroc...

Advancing Human Rights

On Democracy and Difficult Questions

The idea behind this show is pretty simple: We invite scholars, makers, and professionals out to brunch for an informal conversation about their work, and then we turn those...

Professor Meghan Sullivan on Plato’s Republic

Professor Meghan Sullivan she speaks about Plato’s Republic (ca. 375 BC), as part of “The Book That Changed My Life” series from the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture....

Nuclear Disarmament and Pope Francis’ Visit to Japan

Kroc Institute Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies Jerry Powers sits down to talk with Professor Maryann Cusimano Love and Professor Tobias Winright about nuclear...

Tantur: Hill in the Holy Land Episode 3

St. Jerome, who famously translated the Bible into Latin working from the same cave system in which Jesus was born, said: “Five gospels record the life of Jesus. Four you will...

Living Stones

If they were jet-lagged, they didn’t show it. Just as the sun was rising on a Sunday in late July, a dozen Notre Dame undergraduate students filed into the lobby of the...

Contempt of Grace: Theological & Legal Error in William Barr’s Understanding of Religious Freedom

Professor Patricia Hackett provided a theological and jurisprudential response to Attorney General Barr’s speech on religious freedom in 2019. Professor Hackett has done PhD...

Professor Gerard Bradley on Catholic social teaching and the future of Catholic higher education

Gerard Bradley, professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, sits down with Lumen Christi to discuss his path to the legal academy, his research in Catholic social teaching, and the...

Mary Ellen O’Connell and Samuel Moyn on Legal Arguments for Prohibition of Force

This episode is the second part of a four part conversation featuring Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell talking about themes emerging from her 2019 book, “The Art of Law in the...