Mansfield Dialogues
The Mansfield Dialogues are an annual series of discussions designed to bring speakers on contemporary issues to a wider audience. These critical community discussions are attended by high school and university students and community members across Montana and the world.
Upcoming Mansfield Dialogues:
Executive Power and its Limits: Are Constitutional Guardrails Working?
Stephen I. Vladeck
Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Nationally recognized expert on the federal courts; the Supreme Court; national security law; and military justice.
The first year of the second Trump administration has seen unprecedented assertions of executive power by President Trump—part of a broader pattern in which presidents of both parties have attempted to exercise ever-more unilateral authority either without statutory authorization, or even in defiance of statutory limits. This talk will walk through the original understanding of how executive power was supposed to operate (and be constrained); when and where that understanding went off the rails; the specific flashpoints we've seen over the past year; and why, without regard to partisan politics, all Americans should be invested in ensuring that the executive branch is constrained by the law.
Annual Mansfield Lectures
The Annual Mansfield Lecture is the Mansfield Center’s premier yearly lecture, featuring speakers who can bring discussion of critical topics to an audience drawn from throughout western Montana.
First Takes
First Takes is a community education program providing rapid response efforts to educate the public in real time on urgent international or domestic current events that affect our democracy.
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