Can Congress impeach an ex-president? Did Trump commit incitement to riot? Panelists discussing these issues include Berkeley Law professor John Yoo; National Review contributing editor and former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy; and NYU and University of Chicago professor of law Richard A. Epstein. This Berkeley Law School event will be a live taping for Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, and we invite you to join us for this rare recording that is open to the public.

The Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison Network is a new research network under the auspices of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and is a part of the new Macroeconomic Model Comparison Initiative (MMCI) by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) at Goethe University Frankfurt. The MMCI initiative is supported financially by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 

Anil Kashyap, the Stevens Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, discussed “Financial Stability and Monetary Policy?” (with Caspar Siegert)

In a new exhibition entitled Glimpses: British Visions of War & Peace, a selection of topics on 20^th century British history demonstrates the richness and variety of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ holdings on modern Britain. The exhibition was produced by the students in a Stanford History Department class taught by Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History emeritus, in the spring quarter of 2016.

Eric Leeper, the Paul Goodloe McIntire Professor in Economics at the University of Virginia, presented “How to Stop Deflation with Fiscal Policy: Past Lessons for the Future.” John Cochrane, the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the discussant, and John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator.

The past century has witnessed dramatic improvements in the standard of living in the United States. Panelists will discuss the role that free markets, property rights, innovation, regulation, and national security have played in this remarkable advancement in human well-being.

With the annual number of immigrants to the United States at an all-time high, the debate over immigration has reached a fevered pitch. Do today's immigrants come to this country just to go on welfare? Will immigration forever change America's ethnic, cultural, and political landscape?

The Hoover Institution and CISAC have joined forces to address whether information systems may be protected more effectively through international cooperation than efforts by individual states presently permit.

Martin Feldstein, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, presented “the Future of Economic Growth in the United States.”