On Saturday, May 30, at 8:30am at The Study at Yale (1157 Chapel St, New Haven), the Buckley Institute is hosting a discussion titled, “Is President Trump’s Compact the Reform Yale and Higher Education Need?” Yale Law Professor Sarath Sanga, American Enterprise Institute Nonresident Senior Fellow Samuel Abrams and American Council of Trustees and Alumni Campus Freedom Fellow Steven McGuire will look at the path forward for Yale as it seeks to avoid the federal government’s crosshairs.
Breakfast will begin at 8:30am followed by the panel at 9:00am. This event is free.
Advance registration is required. RSVP by May 24 to Isabelle Hargrove at 203-745-0571 or Isabelle@BuckleyInstitute.com
Samuel J. Abrams is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on questions of related civic and political culture and American ideologies. He is concurrently a professor of politics and social science at Sarah Lawrence College, and a faculty fellow with New York University’s Center for Advanced Social Science Research.
Dr. Abrams has been widely published in
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
The American Interest, and
The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. He is the author of several books on a variety of topics including public opinion, Congress, religion and society, and polarization. His scholarly articles have been featured in peer-reviewed journals such as the
British Journal of Political Science,
The Jewish Journal, and
PS: Political Science & Politics. He is presently working on two book projects exploring partisanship, polarization, and society.
Dr. Abrams has an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and is an alumnus of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government Program on Inequality and Social Policy. He received his A.B. in political science and sociology from Stanford University.
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As the Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom,
Dr. Steven McGuire writes, podcasts, and speaks on free speech and academic freedom in the context of contemporary campus issues. He also assists with related ACTA rapid responses, reports, and initiatives. Prior to joining ACTA, Dr. McGuire was director of the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good and associate teaching professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University. His academic research focuses on the history of political thought, focusing in particular on the theme of modernity and its critics. He is the co-editor of
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition,
Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern, and
Nature: Ancient and Modern. His writing has also appeared in the
Philadelphia Inquirer,
Broad and Liberty,
RealClearPolitics,
Inside Higher Ed,
The Public Discourse,
Church Life Journal,
Modern Age,
Perspectives on Political Science, and the
Political Science Reviewer.
He is currently editing two volumes on the politics of liberal education. He holds a B.A. from the University of Lethbridge, an M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America, where he was a Bradley Fellow and an ISI Richard M. Weaver Fellow. He was a 2021 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow.
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Sarath Sanga is a professor of law and co-director of the Center for the Study of Corporate Law at Yale Law School. He teaches contracts and corporate law, as well as a law and economics course at Yale College. Prior to joining Yale, he held permanent and visiting positions at Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, Columbia, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Sarath Sanga specializes in contracts and governance: how people and organizations structure their relationships and set their own rules. His research has explored how shareholder agreements are reshaping corporate governance, demonstrating how the subtle design of corporate altering rules can fundamentally shift power and control of corporations. He also investigated the logic behind venture-capital contracts, showing how these documents solve (or exacerbate) complex fiduciary conflicts in startups. Another strand of his research examines how firms select governing laws for their contracts and their corporations, and why some states — like Delaware and New York — dominate the landscape through powerful network effects.
His work also addresses how contracts strategically omit terms to achieve outcomes that explicit terms can't. For example, companies craft intentionally incomplete employment agreements to enforce noncompete clauses precisely where the law forbids them. He proposed fresh regulatory strategies to rebalance state, federal, and individual interests in arbitration.
His research also examines broader legal institutions: revealing the troubling rise in domestic violence during COVID-19 lockdowns, how police treat motorists, how officer race affects policing outcomes, and the impact of affirmative action bans. He has also studied the legal profession itself, including how occupational licensing rules reduce labor market mobility among lawyers and the rise of women in law schools.
He co-founded
SCALES, a project harnessing AI and natural language processing to make federal court records freely accessible whose mission is to combat the legal system’s costly and senseless barriers to public access to court records.
