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Upcoming Events
Democracy in Danger: A Conversation with Asha Rangappa
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026 | 12 – 1 p.m. | King Hall, Room 1001 | MCLE Credits Available | No Registration Fee | Streaming Link
Asha Rangappa is a lawyer, scholar, media commentator, and public thought leader whose work sits at the intersection of law, national security, and ethics and leadership. She has held senior administrative and teaching roles at Yale University for nearly two decades, including as Associate Dean at Yale Law School and Senior Lecturer and Assistant Dean at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, where she advised deans on governance and strategy, helped guide institutional growth during periods of transition, and teaches courses on national security law, Russian information warfare, and leadership and ethics.
Prior to Yale, Asha served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. She is the author of The Freedom Academy, a bestselling online Substack publication that explores how to create democratic resilience in America’s social fabric, and was the co-host of the legal podcast, It’s Complicated, with Renato Mariotti. Her current book project, UNCOMPROMISED: Activating Your Moral Compass in an Age of Complicity, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2028.
Asha graduated cum laude from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study constitutional reform and U.S. drug policy in Bogotá, Colombia. She received her law degree from Yale Law School where she was a Coker Fellow in constitutional law and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Juan R. Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Asha is a former legal and national security analyst for CNN and ABC News, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other outlets. She is an editor for Just Security, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project.
Lunch provided.
Trade Policy and Politics: A Brief History to the Present Trump Administration
Monday, Oct. 5, 2026 | 12 – 1 p.m. | King Hall, Room 1301 | MCLE Credits Available | No Registration Fee | Streaming Link
Join a discussion with Paul Rosenthal ’75, one of the most respected international trade and government relations lawyers in the United States. He will discuss how U.S. trade policy has evolved over the years, and particularly in the past decade during the Trump and Biden Administrations.
Paul speaks from personal experience. He has successfully appeared before all U.S. trade agencies and reviewing courts and has participated in hundreds of agency and court proceedings. He represents clients from a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, technology, chemicals, food, agriculture, and healthcare. In his government relations practice, Paul represents his clients’ interests with Congress and the Executive Branch. He acts as general counsel or Washington counsel to several international and national trade associations and previously served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs for more than five years. In addition to serving as chair of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Paul is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and previously served as managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office and co-chair of the Government Relations and Public Policy practice group.
Lunch provided.