The Legacy of Natural Rights | 2026 True Lectures, Part 3 (Finale)

Jud Campbell is a professor of law and the Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and has been a visiting professor of law at the Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Chicago Law School. Tom West holds the Potter Chair in Politics at Hillsdale College. He received his B.A. from Cornell and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. He is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. West is the author of the 2017 book The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom. His earlier book on the founding is Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America. Philip Hamburger teaches constitutional law and its history at Columbia Law School, where he is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at AEI and the CEO of the New Civil Liberties Alliance—a civil rights organization dedicated to protecting all Americans from the administrative state and other threats to constitutional freedoms. Before coming to Columbia, he was the John P. Wilson Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He is a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has served on the board of directors of the American Society for Legal History. Inaugurated in the fall of 2024, the True Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of Tad and Jenn True. This annual lecture series was created to foster the production of scholarly manuscripts of great significance by major scholars that relate to the principles and practices of American Constitutionalism. Visit the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government: https://constudies.nd.edu/ *** The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the University of Notre Dame, the College of Arts and Letters, or the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.