The nation’s best teachers come to OU every spring for a day of teaching and discussion about some aspect of the Constitution. This has been a signature event for the campus and the community since 2012, and thousands of students and citizens have attended the lectures. Recent topics include “Native Nations and the Constitution” and “The Supreme Court and the Constitution.” Teach-In is supported by the generosity of donors, especially the Horizon Foundation.
Location: The University of Oklahoma Memorial Union
900 Asp. Ave. Norman, OK
REGISTRATION INFORMATION COMING SOON
Session | Time |
|---|---|
Introduction and Welcome | 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. |
| Session I | 9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. |
| Session II | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
| Lunch | 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
| Session III | 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
| Session IV Panel | 3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
The University of Texas at Austin
Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law Professor
Richard Albert is an expert on constitution-making and constitutional design. An advisor to governments and parliaments on constitutional reform, he has published over 30 books on constitutions, democracy, and the rule of law. He is a graduate of Yale, Oxford and Harvard, a former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada, the immediate-past Co-President of the International Society of Public Law, and currently the only non-Jamaican serving on the 15-person Constitutional Reform Committee advising the Government of Jamaica on writing and enacting a new constitution.
The University of Michigan
Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies
Kenneth Lowande is associate professor of political science and public policy, and a faculty associate in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He studies how presidents use power, how Congress oversees the executive, and how unelected officials implement policy. His new book, False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age was published in October 2024.
The University of Michigan
James G. Phillipp Professor
Julian Davis Mortenson is a legal historian, constitutional litigator, and award-winning teacher who specializes in the constitutional and political history of early America. His current book project, which is under contract with Harvard University Press, develops a comprehensive account of presidential power at the American founding. It seeks to establish a new historical paradigm for the lived history of executive power by showing that the 18th century presidency was understood not as the amorphous locus of unspecified sovereign rights, but as the pragmatic instrument of a legislative agenda over which the occupant of the office had enormous influence.
Bowdoin College
Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government
Andy Rudalevige studies American political institutions, with an emphasis on the modern presidency, the executive branch, and interbranch relations. In 2016-17, he was president of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section. He is an honorary professor at University College London affiliated with UCL's Centre on United States Politics, a senior fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Rudalevige's most recent book is By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power (Princeton University Press), which tracks the role of the wider executive branch in the formulation of directives normally thought of as “unilateral” and the challenge posed to presidential management as a result. In 2022 By Executive Order won the Richard E. Neustadt Prize from the American Political Science Association honoring the best book on the presidency as well as the Louis Brownlow Prize as best book in public administration from the National Academy of Public Administration.
Vanderbilt University
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor
Sharece Thrower is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include American political institutions, separation of powers politics, inter-branch policymaking, executive power, and representation. She is a co-author of the book Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power (Princeton University Press, 2022), which received the 2022 Alan Rosenthal Prize and the 2023 Richard E. Neustadt Award. Prior to arriving at Vanderbilt, Dr. Thrower was an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 2013 and her BA in political science and economics from The Ohio State University in 2008.
