“The Playbook of a Dictator”: UC Berkeley’s Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump and the Rule of Law
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UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s 2024 book No Democracy Lasts Forever examined how democracies collapse and give way to authoritarian regimes.
Trump’s second term, Chemerinsky says, is following the playbook.
”If one were to design a path to authoritarian rule, it would be what we have seen in the first weeks of the Trump administration,” he wrote earlier this year. One of the country’s most prominent legal scholars, Chemerinsky has been speaking out on the need to protect due process and the rule of law and to defend against attacks on academia and the media.
Don't miss him as he returns to Commonwealth Club Word Affairs to talk about the most pressing threats to democracy—and the possible solutions.
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Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California
110 The Embarcadero
Taube Family Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Author, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
Moderator TBA
5:15 p.m. doors open & check-in
6–7 p.m. program
7 p.m. book signing
(all times Pacific Time)
COST
Members receive 30–50 percent discounts (not a member? Join)
In person:
$25
$45 with a book
Free for Leadership Circle members and students (without a book)
Online:
$10
$30 with a book
Free for Leadership Circle members and students (without a book)
