Past Events

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School presents "Living Up To Our Constitution," a lecture by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. The event will be moderated by Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor-in-Chief of The Nation.

The Brennan Center for Justice presents a panel discussion entitled "Reforming Albany: What is Wrong with the State Legislature and How to Fix It," featuring the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, Susan Lerner, Edmund J. McMahon, and the Honorable Daniel L. Squadron.

This debate, held at NYU's Furman School of Law, features John Payton, Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Burt Neuborne, NYU Law Professor and Brennan Center Legal Director; and Stanley Fish, Distinguished Professor of Law and New York Times Online columnist; and moderator Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Legal Affairs columnist .

Brennan Center hosts The Next Democracy—a three day conference at White Oak that brings together a distinguished group of academics, thinkers, and public officials for a weekend of conversation to spark fresh ideas for a new, advanced democracy. Featuring interviews with Barbara Arnwine, Matt Yglesias, Dahlia Lithwick, Professor Goodwin Liu, Anna Burger, Hendrik Hertzberg, Elaine Kamarck, Christopher Edley, Jr., and Judith Browne.