Isaiah Speaks: Constitutional Issues Arising in the New Administration and Issues of Free Speech and Antisemitism on College Campuses
Monday, February 10, 2025
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Constitutional Issues Arising in the New Administration and Issues of Free Speech and Antisemitism on College Campuses with Erwin Chemerinsky
Monday, February 10, from 7 to 8:30pm in the Sanctuary and on YouTube*
(please note this event starts at 7pm and to arrive from 6:45 to 7pm)
Erwin Chemerinsky will deliver two talks in one. As one of our country’s foremost legal scholars, he will speak to the legal issues arising in the new administration as well as offer his thoughts on the current atmosphere on college campuses, including his own personal experience as a target of antisemitism.
Following Erwin Chemerinsky’s talk, Temple Isaiah will provide small group opportunities for further conversation on the ideas presented by our speaker led by trained facilitators. Dessert will be provided during the small group discussion.
Books will be on sale that night that the Dean will sign.
*Please try to join us in-person to give Erwin Chemerinsky a warm welcome to Isaiah. If you are unable to join in person, please email reception at reception@temple-isaiah.org.
About our Isaiah Speaks Speaker:
Erwin Chemerinsky currently serves as Dean of Berkeley Law and the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. He is the author of nineteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent major books are No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States (2024), Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (2022) and Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (2021). In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2022, he was the President of the Association of American Law Schools. In 2024, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. He received his B.S. at Northwestern University and his J.D. at Harvard Law School. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.