Tony Platt in conversation with Erwin Chemerinsky, discussing The Scandal of Cal at the Commonwealth Club.

110 The Embarcadero, Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium, San Francisco.

American institutions of higher education have long been the targets of critical books from the right, arguing they have betrayed their fundamental educational role. Now from the left comes a book that takes the author’s own institution, the University of California, Berkeley, to task for what he says is its culpability in some of the cruelest chapters of U.S. history.

In this era in which many institutions, educational and otherwise, are reckoning with their histories, join us as Dr. Tony Platt talks with Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Cal’s law school, about his call for the institution to deal honestly with its controversial past.