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The Walter Berns Constitution Day
Lecture Series
A scholar of political philosophy and constitutional law, Walter
Berns has written extensively on issues of American government and
its Founding principles. He is the author of 10 volumes and has
published widely in professional and popular journals and America’s
leading newspapers. He is the John M. Olin University Professor
Emeritus at Georgetown University and served as a resident scholar
at AEI. He has taught at Louisiana State University, Yale University,
Cornell University, Colgate University, and the University of
Toronto. He earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in political
science at the University of Chicago. Berns served on the National
Council on the Humanities from 1982 to 1988 and on the Council
of Scholars in the Library of Congress from 1981 to 1985. He was
also a delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2005.
In September 2011, AEI president Arthur Brooks announced
that henceforth the Program on American Citizenship’s annual Constitution
Day celebration would be named in honor of Walter Berns
in appreciation of his scholarly legacy in this field and his many
years of contributing to the work of AEI.
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