Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus
Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, offered an open lecture “U.S. Impeachment: Presidents and Process” at the Doctoral School of the University of Marie Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin, Poland. Professor Larus is a Fulbright Research Scholar at UMCS in Spring 2020. Her lecture introduced faculty and graduate students to impeachment provisions in the U.S. Constitution and walked them through the impeachment process. She then compared and contrasted the impeachment cases of U.S. presidents Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump. Dr. Larus’ presentation was followed by robust Q&A and discussion of U.S. presidential and congressional politics. Graduate students from Poland, Ukraine, and Nigeria participated in discussion.