A Constitutional Cautionary Tale: Why the New Constitution Failed in Chile

For the final episode of the Constitutional Crisis Hotline Season 1 , Fordham Law experts on constitutional law and statutory interpretation reflect on the Supreme Court's recent decisions.

In this episode, Julie talks with Corey Brettschneider, author of The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents about the federal indictment of Donald Trump and what it will mean for Trump’s ambitions to retake the Presidency.

In this episode, leading feminist scholar Deborah Tuerkheimer joins Julie and Jed to discuss Julie’s new book, After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women What to Do about It (publishing today!).

What is the future of constitutional rights protections and equal citizenship in our constitutional democracy? Is substantive due process over after Dobbs, or can we reconstruct it? We talk with Jim Fleming (Boston University School of Law, JD/PhD) about his recent book, “Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process” (2022), in conversation with Ken Kersch (Boston College, Political Science, JD/PhD), an expert on conservative political and legal thought, and working on a new book "The Right Rights: The Conservative Encounter with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 1954-1980."

In this episode, Kathleen Sullivan and Jesse Wegman join Jed and Julie to discuss whether Congress can declare the Equal Rights Amendment ratified and part of the Constitution fifty years after it proposed the amendment to the states.