Challenges to the rule of law in the United States: Democracy, authoritarianism, or something else?

The Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS) at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy welcomes Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for a timely discussion on the state of the rule of law in the United States, and whether the country is headed toward democracy, authoritarianism, or something else entirely.

 

Judge McKeown has served more than twenty-five years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an affiliated scholar at the Center for the American West at Stanford University, and jurist-in-residence at the University of San Diego School of Law. A former White House Fellow, she served as special assistant at the White House and to the Secretary of the Interior. Before her appointment to the bench, she was the first woman partner at Perkins Coie in Seattle and Washington, D.C.

 

Judge McKeown chairs the Ninth Circuit Workplace Environment Committee, sits on the Council of the American Law Institute, and is a former President of the Federal Judges Association and former chair of the US Judicial Conference Codes of Conduct Committee. She is on the board of the World Justice Project and serves as Vice Chair of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, and has lectured widely on international law, human rights, ethics, and constitutional law.