Announcement: Sidney Seminar: The Rule of Law in America: U.S. Immigration Litigation and Policy
/The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism advances knowledge of democratic governance, the rule of law, and constitutional resilience.
The Rule of Law in America: U.S. Immigration Litigation and Policy
Date: Thursday 4 December 2025 | Time: 13:00 (GMT+0)
About the talk
The GCDC Sidney Distinguished Fellow, and NYU Law School Professor, Andrew Weissmann will speak on December 4, 2025 about the rule of law in America through the lens of U.S. immigration litigation and policy. Professor Weissmann will address the unique pressures this has placed on government lawyers and on judges, as well as on the continued vitality and validity of legal doctrines such as the “presumption of regularity” that adheres to government action.
Speaker: Prof Andrew Weissmann (New York University, GCDC Sidney Distinguished Visitor)
Chair: Prof Erin Delaney (UCL Laws)
About the Speaker
Andrew Weissmann is Professor of Practice at New York University. Professor Weissmann served as a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office (2017-19) and as Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice (2015-2019). From 2011 to 2013, Weissmann served as the General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He previously served as special counsel to then-Director Mueller in 2005, after which he was a partner at Jenner & Block. From 2002-2005, he served as the Deputy and then the Director of the Enron Task Force in Washington, D.C., where he supervised the prosecution of more than 30 individuals in connection with the company’s collapse. Professor Weissmann is the co-host of the popular podcast Main Justice and is a frequent legal analyst for NBC/MSNBC. He serves on the board of Just Security and writes frequently for it, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. His memoir about the Special Counsel investigation, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation, was a New York Times bestseller.
About the GCDC
The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism, based at the UCL Faculty of Laws, seeks to advance scholarly knowledge of democratic governance, the rule of law, and constitutionalism. As a research community with a global perspective, our key focus is understanding how to achieve constitutional resilience in electorally competitive political systems. We are currently supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Book your Place