In a timely new book, Bob Bauer, former White House counsel under President Obama, and Jack Goldsmith, former assistant attorney general in the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush, provide a comprehensive roadmap for reforming the presidency. They offer more than 50 concrete proposals, each preceded by rich descriptions of relevant history, background law, and norms. Commenting on them will be J. Michael Luttig, former Fourth Circuit judge and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President George H.W. Bush. Watch the event for a promising discussion.

As William Eskridge and coauthor, Christopher Riano, argue in their new book, Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In‐​Laws, the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges requiring states to recognize same‐​sex marriages came faster and with broader public support than anyone would have thought possible in 2001. This book tells the inside story of the judicial deliberations in marriage equality cases but also defends these decisions from the perspective of the original public meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, constitutional precedents, the institution of marriage itself, and even sincere and learned analyses of scripture. The authors conclude with three chapters about the contours of ongoing debates about religious liberty, the relationship options that states ought to recognize, and abortion. Watch the event for this discussion of such a pivotal Supreme Court decision.