OLLI: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College. 01:17:45

University of Texas Law School Professor Stephen I. Vladeck talks with Doug Mishkin about his New York Times bestselling book: The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic In his New York Times bestselling new book, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic, University of Texas Law Professor Stephen I. Vladeck describes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law behind the closed doors of the “shadow docket” --- from green-lighting restrictive voting laws and bans on abortion to curtailing immigration and COVID-vaccine mandates. Professor Vladeck makes the case that Americans of all political stripes should be worried about what the increasing use of the “shadow docket” portends for the rule of law. Professor Vladeck holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law and is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts, constitutional law, national security law and military justice. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and various lower federal civilian and military courts; has testified before numerous congressional committees, Executive Branch agencies, and the Texas legislature; has served as an expert witness both in U.S. state and federal courts and in foreign tribunals; and has received numerous awards for his influential and widely cited legal scholarship, his prolific popular writing, his teaching, and his service to the legal profession. Professor Vladeck is a summa cum laude 2001 graduate of Amherst College, a 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, and a self-described native New Yorker and hopeless Mets fan. Professor Vladeck will be interviewed by Doug Mishkin, a frequent OLLI speaker and interviewer.