Constitutional Crisis Hotline

Dorothy Roberts, a trailblazing scholar of reproductive justice, joins Julie and Jed to discuss the threats to constitutional democracy posed by prisons and the system of family policing. This episode explores the origins and contemporary relevance of abolition to ask whether it can make the world safer.

In this episode, Julie and Jed talk with American historian Jill Lepore, and political scientist Zachary Elkins about whether, why, how, and when the U.S. Constitution became impossible to amend.

Just hours after the oral arguments on Halloween (Mon, Oct. 31st) in Students for Fair Admissions v. the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, we asked five experts for their immediate reactions, analysis and predictions: Eleanor Brown (Penn St/Fordham Law, co-signer of Black Women Law Professors' amicus brief), Jonathan Feingold (Boston U. Law) and Vinay Harpalani (U. New Mexico Law) (co-authors of a critical legal studies brief questioning Legacy+ policies as a racial privilege), Tom Lee (Fordham Law, co-director of Fordham's Center for Asian Americans and the Law), and Kimberly West-Faulcon (Loyola Law) (expert on constitutional law and civil rights, former attorney at the NAACP). Two of our students join to ask questions: Tristan Betz and Josephine Amon.

In this episode, Julie and Jed debrief Chile’s vote in September to reject a newly drafted constitution with Samuel Issacharoff, Sergio Verdugo, and Camila Vergara.

In this episode of Constitutional Crisis Hotline, our guest Dahlia Lithwick talks with our students about women lawyers’ heroic efforts to save American democracy and the challenges that lie ahead.

In this episode, Julie and Jed talk with Sanford Levinson and Samuel Moyn about modern challenges to constitutionalism in the U.S. and abroad.

Join Fordham Law School professors Jed Shugerman and Julie Suk as we navigate breaking news about democracies breaking. With threats to constitutional democracy at home and abroad surfacing almost daily, Jed and Julie will have real debates assessing them. Are we in a constitutional crisis yet? Is the U.S. Constitution itself the crisis? How can the law help?