Dean's Dialogue - The Second Trump Administration: The First Six Weeks

Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis hosts conversations with faculty experts on U.S. presidential politics and practice.

For the first Dean's Dialogue of 2025, join Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis in the Presidents' Room with Professors Gregory Huber (Political Science) and Garrett West (Law). This is a space for Yale students, faculty, and staff to converse in person, analyzing the first weeks of the new U.S. presidential administration. Light refreshments will be served. 

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Pericles Lewis, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale University, serves as Dean of Yale College In partnership with other university leaders and faculty members, he is responsible for guiding the curriculum, intellectual life, residential experience, and student affairs of the Yale College community. His goal is to ensure that Yale offers the world’s best undergraduate education.

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Greg Huber Ph.D., Princeton University 2001, is the Forst Family Professor of Political Science and resident fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He is the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of American Politics and the Director of the ISPS Behavioral Research Lab isps.yale.edu/yale-isps-behavioral-research-lab. His research interests are in American Politics and Political Economy, including work on political institution and behavior. For a complete listing of ongoing research as well as current and former graduate students and postdocs, see huber.research.yale.edu.

Garrett West is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His subject areas include torts, remedies, federal courts, and administrative law. His scholarship focuses on the uses of private law theory in public law and on the problems of constitutional interpretation and doctrinal coherence through constitutional change.

West received a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an Articles and Essays Editor on the Yale Law Journal, and a B.A. from Hillsdale College in 2015. After graduating from Yale, West practiced appellate litigation in Washington, DC, and clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, Judge Thomas Griffith, and Justice Samuel Alito.