College of Wooster to Celebrate Constitution Day Sept. 17

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WOOSTER, Ohio - Jeffrey Brand-Ballard, assistant professor of philosophy at George Washington University, will be the featured speaker when The College of Wooster celebrates Constitution Day on Monday, Sept. 17. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in Room 205 of Scovel Hall (944 College Mall).

Brand-Ballard, who is an affiliated faculty member at George Washington's School of Public Policy and Public Administration as well as associate director of the master's program in philosophy and social policy, will present "Must Judges Respect the Constitution?" His address will be based on his extensive research in the areas of ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. His latest work is a monograph, titled Limits of Legality: Adjudication, Practical Reason, and the Rule of Law, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. Among Brand-Ballard's published journal articles are "Why One Basic Principle?," "Contractualism and Deontic Restrictions," "Consistency, Common Morality, and Reflective Equilibrium," and "Reconstructing MacKinnon: Essentialism, Humanism, Feminism."

Constitution Day was established by Congress in 2004 to celebrate the signing of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1781. This document, which established our system of government, provides the foundation for the rule of law in the U.S. The College of Wooster honors the Constitution and the principles embedded within it each year by sponsoring an educational program that highlights its enduring value.

This year's lecture is sponsored by the Pre-Law Advising Program. For more information, contact Patrice Reeder at 330-263-2380 or preeder@wooster.edu.