Essex Library offers talks on Constitution

ESSEX — The Essex Library will host a three-part series “Our Constitution: A Conversation in Three Parts” that looks at the country’s governing document in the present, past and future.

Sam Tanenhaus will lead the first conversation May 26, and will be joined June 2 and 9 by Yale Law professor Akhil Reed Amar, according to a news release. Both are at 7 p.m.

Tanenhaus, the author of bestsellers “The Death of Conservatism” and “Whittaker Chambers,” is working on a biography of William F. Buckley Jr. He was editor of the New York Times Book Review from 2004 to 2013.

Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School, the news release said. His work has won awards from both the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, and he has been cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in more than 40 cases.

The in-person events are free and open to all.

To register, call 860-7671560 or go to youressex library.org. The library is located at 33 West Ave.

Essex Library / Contributed photo The Essex Library will host a three-part series that looks at the Constitution.