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Kommers to present right-to-life and constitutional law lecture in Louisville November 9

Donald Kommers, a government and law professor at the University of Notre Dame, will present a lecture titled Abortion and the Death Penalty: The United States versus Europe at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 (Wednesday) at Spalding Universitys Egan Leadership Center Lectorium in Louisville, KY.  The lecture is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be offered.

Kommers is the Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He also holds a joint appointment on the Notre Dame Law Faculty. The co-author of a leading coursebook in American constitutional law, he teaches courses and seminars on constitutional law and the U.S. Supreme Court in the government department and advanced courses in the Law School on European legal institutions and constitutional law (American and comparative).

After graduating with honors from the Catholic University of America, Kommers served for two years in the United States Marine Corps. His advanced degrees in political science are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also studied law. On July 24, 1998, he received an honorary doctor of laws degree (Dr.Jur.) from Heidelberg University in Germany.

Sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of Greater Louisville, Kommers lecture is a presentation of the Notre Dame Alumni Associations Hesburgh Lecture Series.  Offered each year through Notre Dames network of more than 200 alumni clubs, the Hesburgh Lectures are delivered by Notre Dame faculty members nominated by their colleagues and the deans of the Universitys colleges and law school.  The series is named for Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of Notre Dame.

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