Impeachment: An Online Discussion of its use in the United States and its British Origins

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the use of impeachment in the United States and its British Origins. The speakers are leading experts on impeachment, politics, and history. The speakers have all contributed to British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment (which was published by Routledge in 2024.

The speakers are:

Professor Jack Rakove, Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Stanford University. He is the author of six books, including Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996), which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, and Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010), which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and the editor of seven others, including The Unfinished Election of 2000 (2001).

Dr Clodagh Harrington is a Lecturer in American politics in the Departments of History and Government and Politics at University College Cork. Previously, she was Associate Professor of Politics at De Montfort University in Leicester where she taught American Politics and History since 2006.

Professor Daniel Plesch is Professor of Diplomacy and Strategy at SOAS University of London and is a 'door tenant' at the legal chambers of 9 Bedford Row, in London. His most recent research Women and the UN: a new history of women’s international human rights with Professor Rebecca Adami is published in 2021. He is the author of Human Rights After Hitler - featured on Netflix, reported on US National Public Radio and in other international media. His previous books include: America Hitler and the UN, Wartime Origins and the Future UN (with Prof. Weiss) and the Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace.

Dr Chris Monaghan is a Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester. He co-edited British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment (with Matthew Flinders) which was published by Routledge in 2024. He also wrote Accountability, Impeachment and the Constitution: The Case for a Modernised Process in the United Kingdom which was published by Routledge in 2022.