Demand the Impossible: Robert Tsai in Conversation with Dean Chemerinsky

The Death Penalty Clinic, the American Constitution Society, and the Berkeley Law Clinical Program look forward to welcoming you to a conversation between Professor Robert Tsai and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Professor Tsai and Dean Chemerinsky will discuss Professor Tsai’s forthcoming book, Demand the Impossible, in which he traces Stephen Bright’s remarkable career as a civil rights litigator representing individuals facing the death penalty, advocating for legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and challenging inhumane conditions in prisons and jails. Professor Tsai’s book explores the legal ideas that were central to Bright’s relentless pursuit of equal justice.

Robert L. Tsai is a professor of law at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, presidential leadership, and individual rights. He is keenly interested in political culture, legal change, democratic design, inequality, and popular sovereignty. In addition to Demand the Impossible, Professor Tsai is the author of three books: Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation (W.W. Norton 2019); America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community (Harvard 2014); and Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture (Yale 2008).

RSVP here by March 17.