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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.

  • Fried, Carvin, Barnett, and Durbin

    Fried, Dellinger testify on the constitutionality of the healthcare law (video)

    February 3, 2011

    Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired a hearing on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act and the provision that requires, beginning in 2014, every American to maintain health insurance coverage. The law requires all citizens without work-based insurance to purchase plans in the private market.

  • Professor Charles Fried

    ABA task force, co-chaired by Charles Fried, recommends changes to federal lobbying rules

    January 14, 2011

    A bi-partisan ABA Administrative Law Section task force, co-chaired by HLS Professor Charles Fried, issued a report recommending significant changes to federal lobbying laws. The proposed changes would broaden disclosure required by those involved in lobbying campaigns, address fundraising participation by lobbyists and strengthen enforcement of current law.

  • Professor Charles Fried

    Fried on NPR’s On Point: Congress and the Constitution

    January 5, 2011

    Professor Charles Fried joined NPR's On Point to discuss Congress's unprecedented decision to read aloud the full text of the U.S. Constitution as the year's first order of business.

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Scott, CCMR urge Senate and House committees to review pace of rulemaking under Dodd-Frank

    December 21, 2010

    In a Dec. 15 letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation urged the Committees to hold oversight hearings on the implementation through rulemaking of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

  • Anna Leah Fidelis T. Castañeda LL.M. ’96 S.J.D. ’09

    HLS dissertation on the formation of the modern Philippine state wins William Nelson Cromwell Prize

    December 14, 2010

    Anna Leah Fidelis T. Castañeda LL.M. ’96 S.J.D. ’09 was awarded the William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation Prize for her Harvard Law School S.J.D. dissertation: “Creating Exceptional Empire: American Liberal Constitutionalism and the Construction of the Constitutional Order of the Philippine Islands, 1898-1935.”  

  • Professor Charles Fried

    Fried argues for constitutionality of the health care mandate

    December 8, 2010

    On Nov. 18, as part of the 2010 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C., HLS Professor Chares Fried participated in a debate on the constitutionality of the federal health care legislation—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—signed into law by President Barack Obama ’91 last March.

  • Professor Laurence H. Tribe

    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.

  • Justice Stephen Breyer

    Justice Breyer on Making our Democracy Work

    November 9, 2010

    In a special seminar sponsored by the Center for History and Economics at Harvard, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer ’64 of the U.S. Supreme Court discussed his new book, “Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View,” his jurisprudential philosophy, and as the origins of judicial review.

  • Professor Adrian Vermeule '93

    Vermeule: Reviews of new and classic books on the ‘small-c’ Constitution

    October 27, 2010

    Harvard Law School professor Adrian Vermeule ‘93, who is an expert on Constitutional Law, recently reviewed two books — one new and one "neglected classic" — which deal with the subject. The first, "Superstatutes," was featured in The New Republic; the other ("The small-c constitution circa 1925") was a contribution to the new Classics section of the online journal Jotwell.

  • John Manning: The Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation

    October 19, 2010

    Professor John Manning delivered a chair lecture, “The Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation,” in October to mark his appointment as the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law. Manning addressed a full Caspersen Room, with a broad representation of the Harvard Law School community in attendance.

  • Wolff, Hilllman, Minow, and Tax

    HLS Panel discusses an end to don’t ask, don’t tell (video)

    October 13, 2010

    On Oct. 12, Judge Virginia A. Phillips of Federal District Court for the Central District of California issued an injunction barring enforcement of don’t ask, don’t tell, the law that prohibits openly gay men and women from serving in the military.

  • Linda Greenhouse

    Greenhouse assesses the direction of the Roberts Court: “The government wins”

    September 23, 2010

    In a Harvard Law School lecture sponsored by the American Constitution Society, Linda Greenhouse, former Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, discussed “the Roberts Court at Five.”

  • Timothy Endicott

    Endicott looks at the territorial extent of human rights

    September 20, 2010

    In early September, Timothy Endicott, dean of the faculty of law at Oxford University and a professor of legal philosophy, spoke to an overflow audience in Pound Hall on how judges in Europe and the United States have ruled on the territorial extent of human rights.  

  • Noah Feldman and David French

    French and Feldman mine Supreme Court’s decision in Martinez religion case

    September 15, 2010

    In Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, the Supreme Court ruled 5-to-4 last June that a public law school did not violate the First Amendment by withdrawing recognition from a Christian student group that excluded gay students. On Sept. 8, the Harvard Federalist Society sponsored a discussion of Martinez and its implications for religious freedom.

  • Benjamin Kaplan

    Royall Professor of Law Emeritus Benjamin Kaplan [1911-2010]

    August 19, 2010

    Benjamin Kaplan, the Royall Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School and a former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, died August 18, 2010.

  • Professor Michael Klarman

    Klarman: Is public opinion on gay marriage ahead of the Supreme Court’s?

    August 18, 2010

    Shifts in public opinion on gay marriage could influence Justice Kennedy and the fate of same-sex marriage in the Supreme Court, writes HLS Professor Michael Klarman in an op-ed in August 15, 2010 edition of The Los Angeles Times.

  • Professor Randall L. Kennedy

    Randall Kennedy on The Takeaway: The “Reconstruction Amendment”

    August 11, 2010

    Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy recently appeared on Public Radio International’s show “The Takeaway” to discuss the 14th amendment in light of the current immigration debate.

  • Jack Goldsmith on American Institutions and the Trump Presidency

    Goldsmith in the Washington Post: The New START Treaty and Foreign Policy

    August 9, 2010

    Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post on the effects the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) could have on the Senate’s role in foreign policy.

  • Professor Adrian Vermeule '93

    Vermeule in TNR: An assessment of two different views of the ‘living Constitution’

    August 2, 2010

    In the Aug. 2 issue of New Republic online, HLS Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 reviews two new books: Keeping Faith with the Constitution” by Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, and Christopher H. Schroeder and The Living Constitution” by David Strauss. Vermeule’s latest book is Law and the Limits of Reason (Oxford University Press 2009).

  • Noah Feldman portrait

    Imagining a Liberal Court

    July 16, 2010

    “Imagining a Liberal Court,” an article by HLS Professor Noah Feldman, appeared in the June 21, 2010, edition of the New York Times Magazine. A contributing writer to the New York Times, Feldman recently wrote a book entitled “Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of F.D.R.’s Great Supreme Court Justices,” which will be published in the fall.