Robert L. Tsai is a professor of law and Harry Elwood Warren Scholar at Boston University. He is the author of four books: “Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture” (Yale University Press, 2008), “America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community” (Harvard University Press, 2014), “Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation” (Norton, 2019), and “Demand the Impossible: One Man’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All” (Norton, 2024). Tsai’s work spans the history of constitutional ideas, democratic theory, civic republicanism, and literary studies of judgment. At UCHV, he will work on “Reasoning from Injustice,” a book project that brings together pragmatism and popular constitutionalism to develop a humanistic form of politics capable of diagnosing injustice as a social practice and overcoming the forces of indifference.

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