Each year the program focuses on a specific topic that connects students to contemporary constitutional issues. Prior topics include:
- Racism and Lawlessness in the South, 2002-2004 and 2007-2008
- Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the- Century Lynching that Launched 100 Years of Federalism, by Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips
- World War II Japanese American & Executive Orders, 2005-2006, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018
- Hirabayashi v. United States (1943)
- Yasui v. United States (1943)
- Korematsu v. United States (1944)
- Ex Parte Endo (1944)
- From Tinker to Morse: Student Speech – How Free?, 2008-2009
- Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
- Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
- Texas v. Johnson (1989)
- Morse v. Frederick (2007)
- Constitutional Rights on Campus: How Free?, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011
- Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
- Morse v. Frederick (2007)
- Layshock v. Hermitage (2008)
- Safford v. Redding (2009)
- Immigrants and the Constitution, 2011-2012
- Plyler v. Doe (1982)
- Westminster School District of Orange County v. Mendez (1947)
- Knauff v. Shaughnessy (1950)
- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)
- Due Process and Criminal Trials, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015
- Cage v. Louisiana (1990)
- Griffin v. California (1965)
- Batson v. Kentucky (1986)
- Irvin v. Dowd (1961)