Professor Ken Kersch of Boston College will present “The Development of Constitutional Conservatism” on March 29 at 3 p.m. at Cartwright Hall, Room 213. The lecture, which is part of the Drake Constitutional Law Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series, is free and open to everyone.

Kersch is a professor of political science and was the founding director of Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. He is currently a distinguished research fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Kersch’s chief interests are in American political and constitutional development, American legal history, and American political thought. He is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Edward S. Corwin Award, the J. David Greenstone Prize from APSA’s politics and history section, and the Hughes-Gossett Award from the Supreme Court Historical Society. He has authored numerous articles and books, including The Supreme Court and American Political Development and Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law. He is also completing a series of books on conservative constitutional thought in the postwar U.S. and a book on American political thought.

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— Kayla Choate, Law School