Class Colloquium 6: Akhil Amar: The Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, and the Constitution

Class Colloquium 6: Akhil Amar: The Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, and the Constitution

ByArthur Segal

On October 28th at 1:30 pm Eastern, Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar will present trenchant observations about the Executive Branch and his recent research into the Vice Presidency and the Constitution.  With a possible electoral crisis in November, having his views and live Q&A may be especially salient.

Join us on the 28th and see why Professor Amar won the DeVane Medal for teaching as well as the Sterling chair for scholarship.   Register in advance now.

Connecting Across the Racial Divide: Two Men at Yale

Connecting Across the Racial Divide: Two Men at Yale

ByWayne Willis

In September ’65, two freshmen arrived at Bingham Hall, assigned to the same entryway. Both had come from highly segregated high schools.  One was black, and he confessed such shock at the sea of white faces that “I couldn’t tell you all apart!  So, I just said ‘hi, there’ and hoped I didn’t need your…

Democratic House chairs: Here’s how we can protect democracy from a lawless president

Democratic House chairs: Here’s how we can protect democracy from a lawless president

ByJohn Yarmuth

Editor’s Note: This is an op-ed John co-authored with other Members of Congress.

In the years following the Watergate scandal, Congress enacted a series of landmark reforms to protect our democracy and restore Americans’ faith in government. […] Though some presidents have bridled at those laws or stretched them, they have fundamentally abided by their limits for 50 years. Until Donald Trump.