Each year, UNC School of Law organizes the campus-wide Constitution Day celebration to commemorate September 17, the day on which the Constitution of the United States was signed. Constitution Day allows schools and colleges across the country to reflect on United States history, the deeper meanings within the Constitution and the hopes it represents for the future.

The Law School will celebrate the federal observance this year on September 17 with a presentation by Associate Professor of Law Marcus Gadson exploring themes from his book Sedition: How America's Constitutional Order Emerged from Violent Crisis in Room 5048 at 12:00 p.m. The talk will examine how moments of constitutional crisis shaped the framework of American constitutionalism, tracing episodes when dissent and disorder threatened to destabilize the young republic and how leaders responded—sometimes repressively, sometimes with reform—in ways that forged the institutions and norms we now take for granted.

This will be a free and open-to-the-public event recorded by C-SPAN. Lunch will be provided.