November 12: 2025 Gardner Lecture

Location: Bartlett Center - Mount St. Mary's Seminary & School of Theology

Richard W. Garnett, J.D.

Join Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM) for the 2025 Gardner Lecture on Wednesday, November 12, at 7:30 p.m. inside the Bartlett Center at MTSM.

The lecture will be given by Richard W. Garnett, J.D., the Paul J. Schierl Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. The title of the lecture is “Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment.”

Protecting religious freedom is critical for democratic order and constitutional rule of law. It is essential that the principles of religious freedom inherent in the First Amendment be respected and defended for a fair, free, and civil society. In his lecture, Professor Garnett will outline the history of religious liberty in America and discuss some recent and upcoming religious-freedom cases before the United States Supreme Court.

The 2025 Gardner Lecture is open to the public and admission is free.

About Professor Garnett
Richard Garnett, J.D., is the Paul J. Schierl Professor of Law at The University of Notre Dame Law School. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, criminal law, the First Amendment, and law and religion. Professor Garnett is a leading authority on questions and debates regarding religious freedom and church-state relations and is the founding director of Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State, and Society. He is co-author of “Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment” (5th ed., 2022).