Constitutional Law

Recovering democratic practices and values likely depends in part on an organized opposition and an active civil society, says Harvard Law Professor emeritus Mark Tushnet

Speaking on an Animal Law Week panel, Professor Noah Feldman says circumstances can sometimes determine whether transparency or privacy should triumph.

Panel featuring filmmaker Ken Burns and professors Bruce Mann and Annette Gordon-Reed probes ‘disjunction’ between Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

On the 250th anniversary of American independence, Harvard Law experts debate the law and governance challenges facing the nation today.

In Election Law Clinic’s inaugural Gregory and Emily Harvey Memorial Lecture, Professor Aziz Huq warns of threats to U.S. legal system.

At a Harvard Law event, experts debated the president’s power to control and fire federal officials.

Professor Benjamin Sachs explains what’s at stake in Flowers Foods v. Brock

Legal scholars debate whether the surge in emergency orders is merely a response to rising presidential power or a threat to the rule of law.

Harvard Law Professors Nikolas Bowie and Laurence Tribe discuss upholding such rights amid the ongoing federal immigration crackdown.

Harvard Law Professor Alexandra Natapoff hopes the video series she pioneered will help ‘expand the public conversation about the rule of law.’

Harvard Law Professor Daniel Tarullo argues that, in the upcoming Supreme Court case Trump v. Cook, ‘the independence of the Federal Reserve is really at stake.’

Laurence Tribe ’66 outlines his unique and colorful process for preparing for oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court

UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh and Harvard Law School Dean John Goldberg discuss emerging trends in protest and public pressure civil claims.

At the Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum, experts discussed the topic of educational opt-outs after the Supreme Court's decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor.

A Harvard Law Review symposium examines the growing obstacles facing the judiciary, and the tools courts have to confront them.

How much power does the president have to dismiss executive branch officials? From the founding era to today, the answer is ever evolving

Scholar Richard Primus reframes the oldest constitutional question, on enumeration of powers.

Attacks on statutes and regulations are unprecedented, panelists say during Harvard Climate Action Week.