Constitutional Crises

Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer and scholar. She served as President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund from 2013 to 2022. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and will launch the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy at Howard University Law School in 2024. (December 2023)

Pamela Karlan is the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School and Codirector of the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. She is a coauthor of The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process and Keeping Faith with the Constitution. (October 2020)

Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard. His many publications include American Constitutional Law, Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes, The Invisible Constitution, and To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment, cowritten with Joshua Matz. (February 2026)

Fintan O’Toole is the Advising Editor at The New York Review and a columnist for The Irish Times. His most recent book is For and Against a United Ireland, cowritten with Sam McBride.