Ryan Owens will talk about the upending of constitutional and political norms
and what needs to be done about it. Including:

• Electoral trends
• Policy trends
• Discussion of Constitutional affairs of the day

Ryan J. Owens is the Director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership and is also a professor of political science at UW-Madison.

• He earned his Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis and was a faculty member at Harvard University before joining UW-Madison in 2011.
• Owens earned his J.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 2001 and practiced law before attending graduate school. He is an affiliate faculty of UW-Madison’s Law School and the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
• Owens’s research focuses on American political institutions, with a particular focus on the courts. Owens is the coauthor of Supreme Court Opinions and Their Audiences; The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court: Executive Influence and Judicial Decisions; and Supreme Court Justices, Their Motives, and Judicial Behavior (under contract).

• Professor Owens grew up in Kronenwetter, Wisconsin. He is co-owner of the Green Bay Packers, along with roughly 360,760 others.