Come listen to the Department of Political Science’s upcoming guest speaker series, with talks and Q&A from Professors Samuel Issacharoff and Charles Tien! Professor Tien’s talk will be titled “Will the Republicans Lose Control of Congress in 2026? A Referendum Model.” Professor Issacharoff’s talk will be on the role of the courts in the upcoming midterms.

Professor Issacharoff will be speaking in Taylor Hall 102 on October 7 from 6:00–7:15 p.m. 

Professor Tien will be speaking in Taylor Hall 102 on October 14 from 5:00–6:15 p.m.

Professor Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law. He has also held chaired positions at the University of Texas and Columbia Law School. He is one of the pioneers of scholarly examination of the law of democracy, for which he is one of the founding authors. He is also the author of scores of publications in law reviews and other academic journals, as well as Fragile Democracies and Democracy Unmoored. In addition to his scholarship, Professor Issacharoff is an active litigator of public and private law matters, having argued before the Supreme Court and almost every federal appellate court. He was senior legal counsel to the Obama for America campaign in 2008 and 2012. Professor Issacharoff is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council of the American Law Institute.

Professor Charles Tien is the Director of the Asian American Studies Center and Program, as well as a professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He has served as department chair, was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar in American Politics at Renmin University in Beijing, China, and worked as a congressional staffer on Capitol Hill. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on American politics, women and minorities in politics, voting and elections, American foreign policy, research methods, and polling. He has published over 30 scholarly articles, most recently in Presidential Studies Quarterly and the International Journal of Forecasting.

Sponsored by the Political Science Department.

This event is free and open to the public.