Monday April 6, 2026| 12:00-1:00 p.m.
University of Nebraska College of Law | Room 109
During her lecture, Cristina Rodríguez Sol and Lillian Goldman Dean and Professor of Law at Yale Law School will present “Institutions, Trust, and the Future of Our Democracy.” The U.S. constitutional order is in trouble. A central preoccupation in constitutional law and theory has become to identify and lament the democratic limitations of our institutions—the malapportionment of the Senate; the countermajoritarian Supreme Court; the inability of Congress to act because of partisanship; the resulting consolidation of presidentialism; and so on. This lecture will address a related concern that represents one of the most important and concerning developments of our time for the pursuit of self-government—the decline in trust in these institutions and the concomitant decline in their efficacy and strength. The goal will be to document and explain this decline, identify the nature of the concern it presents, and then broach the subject of how to begin to restore faith by reforming the institutions themselves.
This program has been approved for 1.0 continuing legal education credit in Nebraska.
Questions? Contact Marisa Helmkamp at mhelmkamp3@unl.edu or (402) 472-1641