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On the first day of Gov 249, Survey of Constitutional Law, Professor Philip Klinkner asked my class what we were most nervous about. As we went around the room, it became clear that almost everyone was concerned about one assignment: the moot courts. 

Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico is gaining a different perspective this year by swapping his classroom on College Hill with one in Sweden. Anechiarico and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Jonas Brodin, a faculty member of The Swedish Program at the Stockholm School of Economics, have exchanged roles, with Brodin teaching courses in public policy at Hamilton and Anechiarico teaching comparative policy and justice studies in Stockholm.

Professor of Government Robert W.T. Martin's essay titled “What Did the Founding Fathers Think of Fake News?” appearing on the History News Network site called on Americans to take the role of the press more seriously.

“Founding Fathers spirit found in Kaepernick protest,” an opinion piece published by The Hill on Sept. 1, argued that the San Francisco quarterback’s decision to remain seated during the national anthem was an expression of his right to freedom of speech. This is the third opinion piece written by Charles Dunst '18 that The Hill has published in the last two months.

Jim Jacobs, a professor of law and director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University School of Law visited campus to lecture on the current state of gun control legislation in the United States through the Levitt Center's Security program. Jacobs, who was on the hill at the invitation of Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico, attracted a standing room only audience of students and local residents at his April 15 lecture in the KJ Red Pit.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History John Ragosta pondered the question of whether President Thomas Jefferson would have opposed the official Thanksgiving holiday in an invited column on the University of Virginia Thoughts from the Lawn blog that appeared on Nov. 5. Ragosta is the author of the forthcoming book Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed.