The Emergency Court
Fintan O’Toole in conversation with David Cole and Pamela Karlan
The New York Review of Books’s Advising Editor, Fintan O’Toole, hosts David Cole and Pamela Karlan for a wide-ranging conversation about the Supreme Court.
This conversation was recorded on November 6, 2025.
David Cole is the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia University and the former National Legal Director of the ACLU.
Pamela Karlan is the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School and Codirector of the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. She is a coauthor of The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process and Keeping Faith with the Constitution.
About This Series
The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration. In each conversation the Review’s Advising Editor, Fintan O’Toole, will talk with a group of contributors and esteemed guests about critical subjects, including immigration, political violence, the rule of law, and the state of the left.