SCOTUS Justice invited to give Tocqueville Lecture and to co-teach 1-hour class at Univ. Notre Dame

ND News (Sept. 2021)

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas will deliver the 2021 Tocqueville Lecture for the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16 2021. The lecture will be delivered to a public and campus audience, including Notre Dame students, faculty and staff, in the Leighton Concert Hall of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Tickets for limited public seating are free and available one hour prior to the event. The queue for tickets will be accommodated no more than two hours before the event. 

As part of his visit, Thomas will co-teach a one-credit undergraduate course with Vincent Phillip Muñoz (prof. of political science and Law School prof.), who is also the founding director of the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government. The course will explore both Thomas’s jurisprudence and his journey to the Supreme Court. Course readings, which will include some of the justice’s most important Supreme Court opinions and his autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son,” will allow students to address leading themes in American politics and law, including  matters of race, class, gender and religious freedom.