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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 […]

On the October 1 episode of PBS’ “The Open Mind,” Kinder Institute Director Justin Dyer spoke with host Alexander Heffner about the polarization of legal interpretation and civic discourse in contemporary American political society.

In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to […]

For Round 2 of our “Notes from the Capital” series of updates from our undergrads out in D.C., we have first-person accounts of the intern’s life and more from rising senior Lauren Russ (International Studies) and rising junior Tom Coulter (Journalism/History). We’ll let them take it from here… from Lauren “This summer I’m interning with […]

Since late-May, a group of 21 Mizzou undergrads have been living, studying, working, and exploring in (and around) the capital as part of the Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program. We reached out to them recently for news about the first few weeks in Washington, and what follows is a wrap-up of some of their responses, […]

The U.S. Constitution requires laws to be made by elected representatives. Today, most policies are made by administrative agencies whose officials are not elected. Not coincidentally, many Americans increasingly question whether the political system works for the good of the people. In this trenchant intellectual history, Postell demonstrates how modern administrative law has attempted to […]