Become a Student Fellow

The Georgetown Center for the Constitution affords law student the opportunity to join the Student Fellows Program.

The Student Fellows Program takes place each Fall semester at Georgetown Law. The program aims to connect Georgetown Law students with the nation’s leading experts on constitutional law. The program consists of lunchtime conversations followed by Q&A sessions with our distinguished guests. As a qualifying member of the Student Fellows Program, each Fellow will receive a special lifetime gift from the Center and the ability to indicate the qualification on your resume.

To become a Student Fellow, attend at least four Center-sponsored events in the Fall semester. Events are posted on our website, the OSL broadcast, and through our mailing list. To receive credit for your attendance, please complete the sign-in sheet.

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Fall 2025 Programming

The Ninth Amendment: It Means What it Says

• Randy Barnett (Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law, Faculty Director of the Center for the Constitution)

Tuesday, September 9th | 12:00 pm | McDonough 207

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Are We All Still Originalists Now?

• Ilan Wurman (Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota)

Thursday, September 18th | 12:00 pm | McDonough 201

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To Trust the People With Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment

•  Robert J. Cottrol (Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law at GW Law)

Tuesday, September 30th | 12:15 pm | McDonough 201

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The Religion Clauses

• Professor Stephanie Barclay (Professor at Georgetown Law & Faculty Co-Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution

Tuesday, October 7th | 12:10 pm | Room TBD

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Restoring Reconstruction

• Tyler Lindley (Associate Professor of Law at BYU Law School & Research Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution)
• Bradley Rebeiro (Associate Professor of Law at BYU Law School & Research Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution)

Wednesday, October 8th | 12:00 pm | McDonough 208

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Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

• Zaakir Tameez (Author & Constitutional Law Scholar)

Thursday, October 16th | 12:15 p.m. | McDonough 200

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Justice John D. Couriel: State Constitutionalism

• Justice John D. Couriel (Supreme Court of Florida)

Monday, October 20th | 12:00 p.m. | McDonough 208

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The Scope and Limits of Executive Power

• Eli Nachmany (Associate at Covington & Burling LLP & President of the Federalist Society’s D.C. Young Lawyers Chapter)
• Chad Squitieri (Assistant Professor of Law at Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law)

Wednesday, October 22nd | 12:00 pm | McDonough 208

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American Police Power Theory: State of the Field

• Christian Gonzalez-Rivera (Associate Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law & Former Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution)

Wednesday, November 5th | 4:00 p.m. | McDonough 202

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Open Fields Doctrine and the Fourth Amendment

• Laura Donohue (Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and National Security at Georgetown Law, Director of Georgetown’s Center on National Security and the Law, & Director of Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology)

Thursday, November 6th | 12:15 pm | McDonough 201

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The Meese Revolution: The Making of a Constitutional Moment

• Steven G. Calabresi (Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law)

Tuesday, December 2nd | 5:30 pm | Room TBD

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