The second Trump administration sent soldiers to American cities to suppress peaceful demonstrations, investigated by President Trump’s political opponents and tried to silence cultural, educational and media institutions. He has made radical changes to the federal bureaucracy, closing entire federal agencies, linking tens of thousands of employees and by undermining the independence of the agency. He took unprecedented measures to intimidate private law firms. And he failed to comply with several judicial judgments which reject the legal basics of his policies. These developments raise profound questions about the rule of law in the United States.
Our panel of experts will analyze the depth of these developments, their effects on democratic institutions and the extent to which they can be reversed.
This event is organized jointly by the political sciences of the UCL and the UCL Center on American politics.
Meet the speakers
Prof. Jeff Modiset is a Fulbright scholarship holder and honorary professor at UCL. He is also responsible for courses at the Faculty of Law of the UCLA, where his teaching focuses on the activities of prosecutors general. Professor Modisett was federal prosecutor in the United States; As a district prosecutor of Marion County, Indiana, where he continued the Mike Tyson boxer for sexual assault; And as a prosecutor general of Indiana, where he helped negotiate the tobacco regulations of $ 206 billion in the mid -90s. He also worked a lot in the private sector, both in law and technology.
Prof. Erin Delaney is the Leverhulme professor of comparison constitutional law and the inaugural director of the World Center for Democratic Constitutionalism of the UCL. She was also a law professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and, before that, she was committed to the judge of the US Supreme Court David Souter. She is secretary general of the International Society of Public Law, as well as elected member of the American Law Institute. His research explore constitutionalism from a comparative perspective, emphasizing federalism and judicial conception in federal systems.
Prof. Sara Refted is a professor of public administration at the Northern Arizona University, where she heads the MPA program. She is also the new president of the network of public policy, business and administration or NASPAA schools. The expertise of Professor Rinfret lies in regulatory policy, environmental policy, women and public policies, the scholarship for teaching and learning and public administration, subjects on which it has published 10 books and more than 40 articles. Professor Rinfret was also a Fulbright scholarship holder at the University of Aarhus in 2016.
Chair: Dr Colin Provost is an associate professor of public policy in the Department of Political Science of the UCL and the School of Public Policy.
