A Conversation with Steve Vladeck and Tom Gerety

Steve Vladeck  and Tom Gerety:
How Far Have We Fallen? and What Will It Take to Climb Back?

Monday, October 20 at 3:30 p.m. ET

A conversation on the present crisis with Tom Gerety and Steve Vladeck, a leading scholar of constitutional law and the author of the best seller, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic (2023).  

Professor Vladeck teaches constitutional law and federal courts at Georgetown Law School and is a prolific writer and commentator on the response of the judiciary to the second Trump Administration and its assertions of executive authority.  He appears often on radio, TV and in podcasts.  He has his own influential Substack blog, One First, following the rulings and opinions (or lack thereof!) at the Supreme Court.  He graduated  from Amherst College in 2001 and then from Yale Law School in 2004, clerking on two U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. He went into law teaching at the University of Miami, where he served on the legal team that successfully challenged the legality of the Guantanamo Military Commissions. He taught at American University and the University of Texas before joining the law faculty at Georgetown.

He and his wife and children have a second home in the Berkshires.

Tom Gerety taught constitutional law through most of his career. He retired as Collegiate Professor of law and humanities at NYU.  He headed up the Brennan Center for Justice and was president of both Trinity and Amherst Colleges. He has law and philosophy degrees from Yale. 

Free and open to all, but pre-registration is required. 

This event will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel: OLLI: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College