When Courts Do—and Don’t—Defend Democracy: Evidence from Israel with Andrew O’Donohue moderated by Guy Priver
When does judicial behavior defend democracy by upholding constraints on executive power? O’Donohue studies this question in Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu by analyzing quantitative data on over 16,000 panel decisions by Israel’s Supreme Court and qualitative interviews with high-ranking judges, lawyers, and politicians. He theorizes that when judicial selection institutions disperse power (e.g., through a […]
A Conversation with Nate Soares on the Case for Treating AI as Existential Risk
A Conversation with Nate Soares, President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and Author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies If anyone builds superintelligent AI, everyone on Earth will die. That’s the thesis of the New York Times bestseller by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Named to the New Yorker’s and Guardian’s best books […]
Self-incrimination, Confession and Repentance in Jewish Law and Thought/ Moshe Halbertal, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies/Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law moderated by Noah Feldman
Self-incrimination, Confession and Repentance in Jewish Law and Thought Moshe Halbertal, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies/Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law, Harvard Law School, Spring 2026 moderated by Noah Feldman co-sponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies
Constituting Communities: Religion, Law, and Minority Identities in Jewish and Islamic Law with Adan Ershied moderated by Jessica Marglin
Constituting Communities: Religion, Law, and Minority Identities in Jewish and Islamic Law with Adan Ershied moderated by Jessica Marglin