Constitutional Crisis Hotline

Supreme Court Roundup

Fordham Law professors Tracy Higgins, Abner Greene, and Ethan Leib join Julie Suk on the Constitutional Crisis Hotline to analyze the major cases of the Supreme Court Ter

Indicting Trump

Corey Brettschneider is a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, where he has taught constitutional law courses for several years.  He is also a Professor of Political

After Misogyny: Can constitutional democracies get past male overempowerment?

Constitutional Crisis Hotline co-host Julie Suk argues in a new book that misogyny is the overempowerment of men and the collective overentitlement of society to women’s

Re-Constructing Basic Liberties

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 reco

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s Equal Rights Amendment Returns to Congress

Is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) dead or alive? The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing at the end of February to consider a resolution that would recognize some

Emergency Episode: The Biden Student Debt Oral Arguments and Emergency Powers

A breaking-news emergencies podcast right after the oral arguments in the Biden Student Debt cases: Nebraska v. Biden and Dept of Education vs. Brown, joined by: Liza Go

Presidents' Day, the National Security Constitution, and the Russian Invasion Anniversary

This Presidents’ Day episode on presidential power over war and foreign policy coincides with the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Feb. 24th. A veter

Covert Juries and Overt Acts: An Update on the Trump Criminal Investigations

Trump’s interference in the 2020 Election and the January 6 insurrection were big reasons we started this podcast. In this episode, we get some updates on those investiga

The 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Roe was much more than a Supreme Court decision.  It was an event that changed the course of women's lives around the world.  How do we commemorate it, especially after t

Ghosts of Elections Past, Present, and Future

Ghosts of Elections Past, Present, and Future We talked to Rick Pildes (NYU Law) a few days after the Moore v. Harper oral argument, the “independent state legislature”

Abolition Constitutionalism

Dorothy Roberts is George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology; Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights; and Professor of Afri

Our Unamendable Constitution

When a constitution reaches a crisis, should amendments be made to address it?  That’s what happens in many constitutional democracies around the world, but the United St

Diversity in Crisis? The Affirmative Action Oral Arguments

Just hours after the oral arguments on Halloween (Mon, Oct. 31st) in Students for Fair Admissions v. the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v.

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

In 2020, Chilean voters demanded a new constitution to replace the one written in 1980 under the military dictatorship.  But in 2022, Chilean voters rejected the new cons

Women Lawyers to the Rescue: Dahlia Lithwick's Lady Justice

Dahlia Lithwick is the senior legal correspondent at Slate and host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law.  Her work has also appeared in The Ne

Constitutionalism: What can we say now?

On this first episode of Constitutional Crisis Hotline, we start off with the big question: should the U.S. Constitution be scrapped?   Guest bios Sanford Levinson hol

Introducing the Constitutional Crisis Hotline

Join Fordham Law School professors Jed Shugerman and Julie Suk as we navigate breaking news about democracies breaking. With threats to constitutional democracy at home a