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Princeton Reunions 2025: What’s New in Law and Public Policy at SPIA? More Every Day.
May 23, 2025, 1:30 pm

May 23 @ 1:30 - 3:30 pm

Robertson Hall, Bowl 001
Reception in Bernstein Gallery

Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Policy (P*LAW) invites alumni and guests—lawyers and law-curious alike—to learn about our work at an informational session with P…

The Fate of Immigrants’ Right to Education
Apr 1, 2025, 4:30 pm

Case Summary: In Plyler v. Doe (1982), four Mexican-American families challenged a Texas law that withheld from public schools any state funds for educating undocumented children. Their own school district was charging $1000 per undocumented child to compensate for lost funding. These families argued that the…

Donald S. Bernstein '75 Lecture: Actings: Causes and Consequences of Temporary Leadership in Government
Mar 4, 2025, 4:30 pm

At a moment when temporary or “acting” leaders abound in the American bureaucracy, Professor O’Connell examines the modern history of such officials in the U.S. government and the potentially transformative nature of their role. This year’s Bernstein lecturer helps make sense of the legal constraints under which acting federal agency leaders…

Speaker(s)
Anne Joseph O'Connell
Book Talk with Author and SPIA Professor Ken Roth
Feb 27, 2025, 4:30 pm

Restricted to Princeton University, by registration only.

Book sale and signing will take place after the talk.

Speaker
The Conflicts of Anti-Colonialism: A Tribal Right to Discriminate on the Basis of Sex?
Feb 4, 2025, 4:30 pm

Event Summary: Last year, the Supreme Court heard three cases about the sovereign rights of Native American tribes in the United States – one of which resulted in a major victory for the tribes. But honoring tribal choices has at times produced conflicting claims of individual rights. Join us in February for a conversation with…

Bipartisan Movement for Criminal Justice Reform: Past, Present, Future
Nov 19, 2024, 5:00 pm

From 2010-2020, the nation’s imprisonment rate dropped by more than 25 percent, much of it supported by a bipartisan movement of policymakers and advocates from across the political spectrum working together to support commonsense reforms. Join leading organizations from the left and right who have been at the forefront of efforts to…

Prof. Harold Hongju Koh, Yale Law School, Moderated by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Nov 18, 2024, 4:30 pm

Since the beginning of the American Republic, a package of norms has evolved in the U.S. Constitution to protect the operation of checks and balances in national security policy. This “National Security Constitution” promotes shared powers and balanced institutional participation in foreign policymaking. Today it is under attack from a…

Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Randall L. Kennedy (Harvard Law School): "In Praise of Racial Liberalism: Lecture II-How Can We Achieve It?"
Nov 15, 2024, 4:30 pm

Randall Kennedy's lectures will posit the ends and means suitable currently for advancing the cause of racial justice in America. Lecture one will focus on aims: what should racial "justice" mean today? Lecture two will focus on strategy: what are optimal ways of proceeding in a polarized polity in which racial prejudices and resentments…

Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Randall L. Kennedy (Harvard Law School): "In Praise of Racial Liberalism: Lecture I: What Does Racial Justice Mean Today?"
Nov 14, 2024, 4:30 pm

Randall Kennedy's lectures will posit the ends and means suitable currently for advancing the cause of racial justice in America. Lecture One will focus on aims: what should racial "justice" mean today? Lecture Two will focus on strategy: what are optimal ways of proceeding in a polarized polity in which racial prejudices and resentments…

The Role of Values and Norms in Current International Challenges
Oct 30, 2024, 4:30 pm

Speakers

H.E. Christian Wenaweser, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the UNWolfgang F. Danspeckgruber, Founding Director, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Ambassador Christian Wenaweser will highlight the…

Speaker(s)
Amb. Christian Wenaweser, Permanent Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the UN
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination