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Evaluating Resistance to Autocracy: The Trump Cases and the Rule of Law  

Prof. Rick Abel will discuss his forthcoming book on judicial independence as seen in the various cases against Donald Trump. He will evaluate how judges decide these cases and what the effect on the rule of law in America has been.

Prof. Stephen Gardbaum will moderate, putting these cases in a comparative perspective with other democratic systems.

• Prof. Rick Abel
  • UCLA Law’s Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
  • Distinguished Research Professor

• Prof. Stephen Gardbaum
  • UCLA Law’s Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in Law