In Spring 2019, Professor Eric Berger started teaching a new course at the Business College on Legislation and Regulation. The course introduces undergraduates to the foundations of the legislative process and the administrative state to help students understand the legal setting in which they will confront and shape regulations as business, political, and community leaders.
Professor Berger also participated in a conference at Georgia State University College of Law about the legacy of recently retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The conference, which brought together leading constitutional scholars from law schools around the country, was entitled The Swing Justice: Reflections on the Career of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Professor Berger participated on a panel about Justice Kennedy’s writing style and rhetoric with Professors Mike Dorf (Cornell Law School), Jamal Greene (Columbia Law School), and Eric Segall (Georgia State University College of Law).
He is currently working on a new paper about the role of popular norms in creating the current lethal injection stalemate that is making it more difficult for many states to carry out executions. He presented early versions of that paper at a faculty colloquium at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago and at the Ninth Annual Loyola Constitutional Law Colloquium at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Professor Berger also participated in a panel discussion at the UNL student union about free speech and civil discourse and guest lectured about constitutional topics in various classes around the university, including in the College of Journalism, the History Department, and the Political Science Department at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.