Walter Berns

Dr. Walter Berns

John M. Olin University Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University

Topics: Civil Rights • Free Speech & Election Law • Religious Liberties

Walter Berns is the John M. Olin University Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Chicago (where he earned a Ph.D. in political science), and at Cornell and Yale Universities. His government service includes membership on the National Council on the Humanities, the Council of Scholars in the Library of Congress, the Judicial Fellows Commission, and in 1983 he was the alternate United States representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. He has been a Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright Fellow and a Phi Beta Kappa lecturer. He is the author of numerous articles on American government and politics in both professional and popular journals; his many books include In Defense of Liberal Democracy, The First Amendment and the Future of American Democracy, Taking the Constitution Seriously, and Making Patriots. President George W. Bush awarded him the 2005 National Humanities Medal for his scholarship on the history of the constitution.

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1991 National Student Symposium

On March 1-2, 1991, the Federalist Society's Yale Law School student chapter hosted the annual...

Panel III: The Bill of Rights and Governmental Structure: Republicanism and Mediating Institutions [Archive Collection]

1991 National Student Symposium

On March 1-2, 1991, the Federalist Society's Yale Law School student chapter hosted the annual...