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June 14, 2018
“Ask the Experts”: Gerrymandering and SCOTUS with Prof. Jay Dow and Newsy’s Cliff Judy
It’s the practice of drawing voting districts that gives one person’s vote more weight than another’s. And while that sounds blatantly unfair, gerrymandering is as old as the republic itself—it was used in the very first congressional elections for a seat in Virginia. The Supreme Court heard two cases in the past year—Gill v. Whitford […]
June 8, 2018
“Ask the Experts”: DACA and the Supreme Court with Prof. Jennifer Selin and Newsy’s Cliff Judy
Many legal experts believe the Supreme Court will inevitably hear a case about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. But historically, justices of the nation’s highest court have largely deferred to the executive branch on issues such as immigration and national security. And SCOTUS is especially hesitant to get involved in any […]
April 11, 2018
Demystifying “Democracy vs. Republic”: KICD Faculty in the Post-Dispatch
A news item so exciting it gets its own post, Kinder Institute Director Justin Dyer and Kinder Institute Associate Professor of Constitutional Democracy Adam Seagrave took to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently to address the sometimes contested distinction between calling the United States a democracy vs. calling the nation a republic. Read the full text of […]
January 10, 2018
Kinder Institute Joins Statewide Bicentennial Alliance
Thanks to the hard work of our longtime collaborator Dr. Steve Belko, Executive Director of the Missouri Humanities Council, the Kinder Institute has officially entered a statewide alliance of six nonprofit organizations and government agencies mutually committed to developing educational, community outreach, and scholarly research projects and events related to the Missouri Bicentennial. Representatives of […]
January 9, 2018
“Thinking Out Loud”: Kinder Institute Faculty on KBIA
A pair of Kinder Institute faculty members sat down during the Fall 2017 semester with our friends at Columbia-based NPR affiliate KBIA (91.3) to talk about projects they have in the works.
November 9, 2017
C-Span and the Kinder Institute
We would like to give a special thanks to C-Span for helping us create an archive of recent Kinder Institute events: Unbound Book Festival panel on “Is the First Amendment in Crisis,” with Kinder Institute and MU Law Associate Professor Carli Conklin (moderator), and panelists Stephanie Shonekan (Chair of MU’s Black Studies Department), David Von […]