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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 […]
June 1, 2018
Aristocracy in America: From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman
In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between “aristocracy” and “democracy” that loomed […]
May 10, 2018
“Special Relationship” with Corpus Christi College’s Nigel Bowles
As part of the Kinder Institute’s “Global History at Oxford” alumni and undergraduate study abroad trip, Corpus Christi College (Oxford) Senior Research Fellow Nigel Bowles gave a March 29 after-dinner talk on the “Special Relationship.”
April 23, 2018
“American Empire” with Cambridge Professor A. G. Hopkins
Making a stop in Columbia on his scholarly world tour, Cambridge University Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History A. G. Hopkins gave an April 9 talk in Jesse 410 on his most recent book, American Empire: A Global History.
April 17, 2018
“Jeffersonian Constitutionalism”: Town & Gown with Rice Prof. John Boles
For the Kinder Institute’s annual Town & Gown Dinner Lecture, Rice University William P. Hobby Professor of History John Boles gave an April 10 talk on the ideas and events that shaped the trajectory of Jefferson’s evolving ideas about constitutionalism.