Ann and Bill Moreau Constitution Day Lecture

Endowed in honor of Sen. Birch Bayh, this annual event brings together distinguished speakers, students, faculty, dignitaries and community members.
Group of students hand out pocket Constitutions

Guest Speaker Linda Greenhouse, September 2025

What is the proper role of the judiciary in moments of institutional imbalance? When does judicial restraint become abdication? In this lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, and law professor Linda Greenhouse explored how the Court is navigating these questions at a moment of profound stress in American democracy. Rather than prescribing answers, she offered a framework for understanding the competing visions of constitutional governance that are shaping the Court’s decisions—and the future of the separation of powers.
 
Collage of photos showing Linda Greenhouse and guests
 
 

 Group of students arriving for Constitution Day

 

Constitution Day audience members and special guests

Professor Logan Strother and Professor Jesse Crosson

Guest Speaker Jason Berman, September 2024

Mr. Berman, Sen. Birch Bayh's former Chief of Staff, spoke on the Electoral College, its history and impacts on presidential selection. Mr. Berman was Sen. Bayh's right-hand man during his campaign to transform presidential elections, giving Berman a behind-the-scenes look at the wild and winding politics of amending the U.S. Constitution. 

 Berman speaking to the audience

 

Guest Speaker John Feerick, September 2023

Dean Emeritus of the Fordham School of Law John Feerick spoke about the 25th Amendment and his experiences with former Indiana Senator Birch Bayh, who was essential to the passage of that legislation.

Exponent article on Feerick's lecture

 

John Feerick, Jesse Crosson and Logan Strother

 

 

Feerick and dignitaries having lunch

Esteemed guest speaker John Feerick, Fordham School of Law, enjoying luncheon with local dignitaries prior to his talk Presidential Succession and Fitness for Office.