Three members of the UCLA School of Law faculty are featured in an essay that appears in the opinion section of The New York Times, which recounts the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. Ann Carlson, Ingrid Eagly, and Jon Michaels are among the 35 legal experts from around the country whom the Times quotes on matters ranging from the firings at independent agencies to President Trump’s clashes with the judiciary.

Carlson comments on the push to end birthright citizenship and tariffs. “Issuing tariffs under dubious legal authority without Congressional authorization … could pull the entire world economy into chaos and recession,” she says. She is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and faculty director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. She served as the chief counsel and acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from 2021 to 2024.

Eagly is quoted on deportations, saying that they “sweep broadly to strip lawfully present immigrants — and even natural-born U.S. citizens — of their status.” An expert in the intersection between immigration enforcement and the criminal legal system, she is a professor of law, faculty co-director of the Criminal Justice Program, and previous faculty director of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.

Michaels offers a big-picture view of the impact of Trump’s activities. “Even if Trump were stopped dead in his tracks tomorrow, it would take years, probably decades to undo the damage and regain public trust,” he says. He is an authority in constitutional law and administrative law, and he recently published his second book, Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy (Simon & Schuster/Atria, 2024).

Visit our In the Media page for more commentary by UCLA Law faculty members on the Trump presidency and its impact, including Rick Hasen on election law, Kimberly Clausing on tariffs, Scott Cummings on legal ethics, Ahilan Arulanantham on immigration, Russell Korobkin on higher education, Adam Winkler on due process, Julia Stein on environmental law, Stuart Banner on the Supreme Court, and much more.