Event Category: Book Talk

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Every workplace has conflict. The question is: how can we navigate it effectively? In this webinar, Audrey Lee will share key insights from her new book, Navigating Conflict at Work: A Guide to Workplace Mediation. Drawing on her experience mediating and coaching hundreds of workplace conflicts, Audrey will discuss how to address conflict directly, when mediation […]

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Headshot of HLS Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet

In the early 21st century, constitutionalism confronts numerous pressures and critiques. Some prominent critics are concerned that constitutionalism’s modern form may be unduly rigid in the face of changing social, economic, and environmental conditions. In their new book, Professors Mark Tushnet (HLS) and Bojan Bugarič (University of Sheffield) propose a “thin” idea of constitutionalism and suggest that we should scale back our expectations for what constitutionalism can achieve. Please join for a panel discussion about the book with Professors Tushnet, Doerfler and Visiting Professor Vlad Perju.

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East Asian Legal Studies Talk: Natalie Lichtenstein, JD ‘78  AIIB Inaugural General Counsel (retired) DISCUSSANT: Alastair Iain Johnston  The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Research Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University When the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was launched in 2016, many wondered how this new multilateral development bank […]

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Cover image of book titled Supremacy by Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan

Join in for a panel discussion of the new book Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People with HLS authors Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan and discussant Professor Guy-Uriel Charles. In a sweeping narrative of over 200 years of American history, the authors demonstrate that ​“judicial supremacy” was not written into the Constitution and has always been challenged as fundamentally at odds with it.