“What Really Happened in the Dred Scott Case?” Harvard Law School, 2007; Baylor University, 2007.
“The Incomplete Constitution and the Invention of Judicial Review," University of Chicago, 2006; Claremont McKenna College, 2008.
“Human Dignity, Human Rights, and the Basis of Justice,” University of Virginia, 2007.
“From Hamilton to Hamdan: Constitutionalism and the `War on Terror’”, Constitutional Day Lecture, Tufts University, 2007; New Hampshire Institute of Politics, 2007.
“Tocqueville – Hot, Hot, Hot," National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institute, 2007.
“Was Leo Strauss an Esoteric Writer?” Claremont McKenna College, 2005.
“Giving the Barber a Trim: The Constitution and Welfare Rights," Bowling Green State University, 2005.
“How the Supreme Court Got Such Big Britches," Baylor University, 2005.
“The Fullness of Being: Aquinas and the Modern Critique of Natural Law," Palermo, Italy, 2005.
“Strauss—Modernity—America," New School for Social Research, 2005.
“The Supreme Court and the Problem of Liberty in American Constitutionalism," Earhart Foundation, 2005.
“Natural Rights and Imperial Constitutionalism,” Indiana University, 2004.
“Must Political Theory Be Secular?” Texas A&M University, 2004.
“On the Theory of the Declaration of Independence," Bellarmine University, 2004.
De(a)dication: Lincoln at Gettysburg, Gettysburg and 9/11,” Bellarmine University, 2004; Furman University, 2004; University of Texas, 2003, University of Chicago, 2003; University of Houston, 2003.
“The EU’s Federalism Deficit: a Madisonian Perspective,” Lisbon, Portugal, 2004.
“On Waldron’s Locke," Southern Political Science Association, 2005.
"The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men, or How the Supreme Court Got such Big Britches," University of Michigan 1999; Bucknell University, 2000; University of Toronto 2000.
"Thinkin’ About Lincoln," President’s Day Speech, Juniata College, February 2000.
McKenna Lecturer, University of Dallas, April 2000.
"At the Crossroads: Leo Strauss on the Coming of Modernity," APSA 1999.
Respondent, Round Table Discussion of Michael Zuckert, The Natural Rights Republic, American Political Science Association, 1999.
"Machiavelli and Shakespeare: New Modes and Orders in Midsummer Night's Dream," Midwest American Political Science Association, April 1997.
"The Civil Rights Act of 1866: A Structural Analysis," University of Minnesota Law School, January, 1997; Chicago-Kent School of Law, March 1997.
"Thinkin' about Lincoln," Presidents' Day Convocation, Carleton College, February 1997.
"Natural Law and Natural Rights," The Association of American Law Schools , January 1997.
Round Table Discussion "Equality in the Declaration of Independence," American Political Science Association, Fall 1996.
"Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson: A Study in Character," American Political Science Association, Fall 1996.
"America before Modernity: Pilgrims, Puritans and the Origins of the American Political Tradition," Boston College, Spring 1996.
"Big Government and Rights," Michigan State University, Fall 1995.
"New Rawls and Constitutional Theory," University of Notre Dame, April 1994.
"Natural Rights and the New Republicanism," Harvard University, April 1994.
"Natural Rights and American Republicanism," (5 lecture series), Frank Covey Lectureship in Political Analysis, Loyola University of Chicago, March 1994.
"Is Egalitarian Liberalism Compatible with Limited Government?" American Public Philosophy Institute conference on Natural Law and Modern Liberalism, Washington, DC, Fall 1993.
"New Rawls and Constitutional Theory: Does It Really Taste That Much Better," Bowling Green State University, Fall 1993.
"Toward a Theory of Corrective Federalism," N. E. H. Conference on the Future of Federalism," Temple University, November 1992.
"Jefferson's Political Legacy," University of Virginia, October 1992.
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