Guardrails and Government — The Trump Administration as a Constitutional Stress Test

  • Tuesday, April 14, 2026
  • 7:00 PM
  • Online via Zoom
  • 488

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OLLI at BCC Distinguished Speakers Series
Sponsored by Kimball Farms Life Care

Tom Gerety with Eugene R. Fidell on:

Guardrails and Government — The Trump Administration as a Constitutional Stress Test

Jointly offered with Bard LLI

Tuesday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. ET

Online via Zoom
Free and Open to All

Dr. Gerety will continue a series of programs on our laws and Constitution under Trump, in conversation with Eugene R. Fidell of Yale Law School. This talk will focus in particular on the war with Iran.

Eugene R. Fidell is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School. In addition, he is of counsel at the Washington, D.C., firm Feldesman LLP, where his practice focuses on military law. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard following graduation from Harvard Law School, and co-founded the National Institute of Military Justice. His books include Military Justice: Cases and Materials and Military Justice: A Very Short Introduction. He has edited the Global Military Justice Reform blog since 2014 and has taught at Yale, Harvard, NYU, and the University of Virginia.

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



OLLI at BCC is also sponsored by Berkshire Health Systems

Note: If you are coming in-person to the poetry event before this lecture, you are welcome to stay in the same room at BCC for a viewing party, and to bring your dinner!


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