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Is the Obama Health Care Reform Constitutional? Fried, Tribe and Barnett debate the Affordable Care Act
March 28, 2011
Debating what Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow called “one of the most important public policy issues and one of the most important constitutional issues,” three law professors offered different perspectives on whether the individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) violates the commerce clause of the Constitution and infringes on personal liberties.
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Harvard Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’66 will receive an honorary doctorate on March 29 from Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales (INACIPE), or National Institute of Criminal Science. He will be the first American to receive the annual “honoris causa” doctorate since its inception in 1998.
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Tribe in NYT: On Health Care, Justice Will Prevail
February 8, 2011
In his op-ed “On Health Care, Justice Will Prevail,” which appeared in the Feb. 8, 2011 edition of The New York Times, Harvard Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe says that the Supreme Court will judge the constitutionality of the health care law based on precedent, not politics.
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Laurence Tribe to return to Harvard Law School in January
November 18, 2010
Carl M. Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe, currently serving as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice in the Justice Department, will return to the Harvard Law School faculty in January and resume teaching in the 2011-12 academic year.
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Tribe to judges: take action on poverty issues
August 4, 2010
Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Tribe ’66, now a senior Justice Department counselor, received a standing ovation from the nation’s state chief justices last week after challenging them to take immediate steps to improve access to justice for juveniles, the poor and the middle class. An article by Tony Mauro in the National Law Journal reported on Tribe’s address, including his proposals for reform.
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Ogletree, Tribe bestowed with honorary degrees
June 7, 2010
Professors Laurence H. Tribe ’66, and Charles J. Ogletree both received honorary degrees at law school commencement ceremonies this spring.
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Harvard Law School Professors Martha Minow, Cass R. Sunstein ’78, and Laurence Tribe ‘66 are among the new class of members elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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Tribe testifies before House subcommittee about the future of campaign finance reform
February 3, 2010
Constitutional expert and Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe ’66 testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties today regarding the future of the First Amendment and campaign finance reform in the wake of the Citizens United case.
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Laurence Tribe on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
January 25, 2010
There is no doubt that Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission marks a major upheaval in First Amendment law and signals the end of whatever legitimate claim could otherwise have been made by the Roberts Court to an incremental and minimalist approach to constitutional adjudication, to a modest view of the judicial role vis-à-vis the political branches, or to a genuine concern with adherence to precedent.
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The Laws of Unintended Consequences
December 9, 2009
To prevent domestic violence, do we now overregulate the home? A scholar raises some provocative questions.
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HLS alumni and faculty serve in Obama administration
August 3, 2009
This year, Harvard Law School alumni continued to make an impact in a variety of ways. Most notably, HLS alumni have filled the halls of…
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HLS Professor Laurence Tribe ’66, an expert on constitutional law who has argued 35 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, served on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, which selects participants for one of the country’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service.
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The following commentary by Professor Laurence Tribe ’66 appeared in the Washington Post on July 13 and July 14, 2009.
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Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe’s ’66 new book, “The Invisible Constitution” (Oxford University Press, 2008), was the subject of a star-studded panel discussion sponsored by the Harvard Law Review on April 15 at HLS.
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Tribe: Blagojevich and the Constitution
January 4, 2009
The following op-ed by HLS Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’66, “Blagojevich and the Constitution,” was published in the Jan. 2, 2009, issue of Forbes.
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2008 – Year in Review – Books
December 13, 2008
2008 was a prolific year for HLS scholars. Here is a roundup of this year’s faculty books.
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Constitutional Ink—Visible, and Invisible
September 3, 2008
The U.S. Constitution is 219 years old now, and the revolutionary system of government it created has survived and spread across the globe. No wonder many Americans consider it an almost sacred document, the final say on governmental powers and individual rights.
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Battlegrounds
September 2, 2008
On executive power, war and anti-terrorism, scholars have a lot to say--and lawmakers are listening.
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An op-ed by Professor Laurence Tribe: The Supreme Court is Wrong on the Death Penalty
August 21, 2008
The following op-ed, The Supreme Court is Wrong on the Death Penalty, written by Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe '66, was published in the Wall Street Journal on July 31, 2008.
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Hearsay: Faculty Short Takes Summer 2008
July 1, 2008
The Laws in Wartime Professor Jack Goldsmith
Slate Magazine, April 2 “We are surprisingly close to putting policy issues in the war on terrorism on… -
An op-ed by Professor Tribe: Why the Supreme Court should take a minimalist approach to gun rights
March 4, 2008
The following op-ed, Sanity and the Second Amendment, written by Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe '66, was published in the Wall Street Journal on March 4, 2008.