On Saturday, May 31, 2025, at 8:30am at The Study at Yale (1157 Chapel Street, New Haven), the Buckley Institute is hosting a reunion weekend event titled, “Too Many Administrators? Curbing DEI and More at Yale and Beyond.” The panel discussion will feature Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow Jay Greene, Columbia Law School Professor of Law Philip Hamburger, and Yale Professor of Political Science Hélène Landemore.
This panel will look at how a proliferation of administrators has impacted higher education, including by creating and entrenching a bureaucracy that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion over defending free speech. The panelists will analyze the path forward for elite institutions like Yale and how they can restore serious and open discussion on campus.
Breakfast will begin at 8:30 with the program starting at 9:00am.
This event is free and open to the public.
Space is limited. RSVP to Isabelle Hargrove at 203-745-0571 or Isabelle@BuckleyInstitute.com.
Jay Greene is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. The focus of his current research examines the effects of education on character formation and civic values.
His past research has covered a diverse set of topics, from randomized controlled trials of private school choice programs to the effects of student field trips to art museums and the theater. His most recent book is a co-edited volume, Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York.
Prior to Heritage, Greene was at the University of Arkansas, where he served as Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Education Reform, which he founded and led for 16 years. Greene received his bachelor's degree in History from Tufts University and earned his PhD in Government from Harvard University.
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One of the preeminent scholars writing today on constitutional law and its history,
Philip Hamburger teaches and writes on wide-ranging topics, including religious liberty, freedom of speech and the press, academic censorship, the regulation of science, judicial duty, administrative power, and the development of liberal thought. In two recent books—Is Administrative Law Unlawful? and The Administrative Threat—he argues that the administrative state is unconstitutional and a threat to civil liberties. In his latest book, Liberal Suppression: Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech, he shows that the revenue code’s restrictions on the political speech of churches were initially proposed by the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and shows that these speech limitations are unconstitutional.
In 2014, Hamburger established the Law School’s Center for Law and Liberty, which studies threats to and legal protections for freedom. He is the founder and CEO of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, an independent, nonprofit civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C., that uses litigation and other pro-bono advocacy to defend constitutional freedoms from the administrative state.
Hamburger joined the Law School faculty in 2006 from the University of Chicago Law School. He has won several prestigious prizes during his tenure at Columbia Law, including the Hayek Book Prize for Is Administrative Law Unlawful? and the Bradley Prize, which honors persons who defend American values. He has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Hélène Landemore is a professor of political science at Yale University with a specialization in political theory. Her research and teaching interests include, among other things, democratic theory, political epistemology, and the ethics and politics of artificial intelligence. She is also a fellow at the Ethics in AI Institute at the University of Oxford, and an advisor to the Democratic Inputs to AIprogram at OpenAI. She served on the Governance Committee of the most recent French Citizens’ Convention and is currently undertaking work supported by Schmidt Futures through the AI2050 program.
