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Widening the Circle of the Global Community

Why is it that when dealing with some of the most important global issues of the day, the very countries that would benefit most from an...

Forging Ahead

When you accepted leadership of the Hauser Global Law School Program, you described an ambitious and broad agenda. How would you rate your success in carrying...

Minding the Other 2Ls: LL.M.s

Three years ago, Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Benedict Kingsbury and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law Richard Stewart together launched a program in...

Saving Democracy from Itself

Samuel Issacharoff, the Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law, delivered his inaugural lecture, “Fragile Democracies: Elections and the Rise of Extremist Parties,” on October...

A Theory of Government Reenvisioned

Richard H. Pildes delivered the inaugural lecture of the Sudler Family Professorship of Constitutional Law on March 20, 2007. In “Separation of Parties, Not Powers: Re-Creating...

Introducing Catherine Sharkey

When Catherine Sharkey was a research fellow at Columbia Law School writing her first law review article, on the disconnect between the theoretical reasons for awarding...

Introducing Troy McKenzie

In 1999, when Regis Philbin’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire hit the airwaves, New York University Law Review students agreed that, should they ever land...

Introducing Arthur R. Miller

During his 36 years at Harvard Law School, Professor Arthur Miller’s intimidating teaching style made him the stuff of legend. Students caught unprepared risked being ejected...

Introducing Samuel Scheffler

The academic grilling—skewering,some might say—that marks the Law School’s Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy has unnerved many an accomplished scholar. Yet when Samuel Scheffler...