The New York Review of Books presents a series of online talks hosted by our Advising Editor Fintan O’Toole. For our third fall event, New York Review contributors David Cole and Pamela Karlan join O’Toole for a wide-ranging conversation on the Supreme Court.

The conversation will last approximately ninety minutes, including a question-and-answer period.

David Cole is the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia and the former National Legal Director of the ACLU.

Pamela Karlan is the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School and Codirector of the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. She is a coauthor of The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process and Keeping Faith with the Constitution.

About this series

The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration. In each conversation The New York Review’s Advising Editor Fintan O’Toole will talk with a group of contributors and esteemed guests about critical subjects, including immigration, political violence, the rule of law, and the state of the left. Each event, held on Zoom, will last about ninety minutes and include an audience Q&A session. All events are pay-what-you-wish (with a suggested fee of $10) and open to the public.

The Emergency Court with David Cole and Pamela Karlan