The New York Review of Books presents the first installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole. For the first event, New York Review contributors Sherrilyn Ifill, Pamela Karlan, and Laurence H. Tribe join O’Toole for a conversation on corruption and the rule of law during the second Trump administration.
Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer and scholar. From 2013–2022, she served as the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s premier civil rights law organization fighting for racial justice and equality. She recently served as a Ford Foundation Fellow and as the Klinsky Visiting Professor for Leadership & Progress at Harvard Law School, and as a fellow at the Museum of Modern Art. Ifill is currently the Vernon Jordan Distinguished Professor in Civil Rights at Howard Law School, where she founded the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy.
Pamela Karlan is the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and a founder and codirector of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School. Karlan’s primary scholarship involves constitutional litigation, particularly with respect to regulation of the political process and antidiscrimination law. She has also practiced law at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, focusing on employment discrimination and voting rights. Her public service includes a term as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission and two stints at the US Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division. Karlan is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute, where she serves on the ALI Council.
Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard University and serves as regular counsel to the law firm HeckerFink LLP. The title “University Professor” is Harvard’s highest academic honor, awarded to fewer than seventy-five professors in the university’s history. Tribe was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama to serve as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice and in 2021 by President Joseph R. Biden to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. He helped write the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands, and has published 115 books and articles, including his treatise, American Constitutional Law, cited more than any other legal text since 1950.
About this series
The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues of the second Trump administration. In each conversation The New York Review‘s Advising Editor Fintan O’Toole will talk to a group of contributors and esteemed guests about critical subjects, including the rule of law, immigration, the state of the left, and the fate of the climate. Each event, held on Zoom, will last about ninety minutes and include an audience Q&A session. All events are pay-what-you-wish (with a suggested fee of $10) and open to the public.
