Kevin J. McMahon
Trinity College (Hartford, CT)

“A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other:
The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People”

Thursday, October 24
4:30—6:00 p.m.
CSI Library, Building 1L
Room 203
Reception to Follow
CLUE Credit Certified

Kevin J. McMahon is the John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science at Trinity College. He is also the author of Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race (winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Award), and Nixon’s Court (winner of the Erwin N. Griswold Prize), and co-author, with Michael Paris, of “Absolutism and Democracy: The Free Speech Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black,” in Judging Free Speech, Helen Knowles and Stephen Lichtman, Eds.  Professor McMahon will discuss his recent book, A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Increasing Divide Between the Court and the People (University of Chicago Press, 2023).  Professor McMahon earned his Ph.D. at Brandeis University (1997).  In 2006, he was a Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Montreal.