BIC: Understanding the Constitutional Big Picture: Politics and Governing in 2025

Richard Primus, the Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and active member of Beth Israel Congregation, will speak and host a q & a session covering the sweeping changes, executive orders, and other issues that have occurred at the federal level since the inauguration. Please submit questions about these topics beforehand. This event will be broadcast on our YouTube channel.

Richard Primus, the Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, teaches the law, theory, and history of the U.S. Constitution.  He is a former Rhodes Scholar, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and, for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation, the co-recipient of the first-ever Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies.  He is also a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance, a senior editorial adviser of the Journal of American Constitutional History, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to fighting threats to free and fair self-government.  From 2011 to 2013 he served as legal advisor to the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, and from 2012 to 2014 he served as President of the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor.