Public Events

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Tiger Talk: Pathways to Public Service Law
Jan 31, 2025, 12:00 pm
Location
Robertson Hall Bowl 016
Speaker(s)
Stuart Rabner
Andrew Bruck
Angela Cai
Joe Krakora

Public Events - Past Events

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
Election Hazards: 2024
Sep 25, 2024, 4:30 pm

American elections have faced stark challenges in recent cycles, from shifting rules governing voting and election administration to threats of foreign interference, disinformation, political violence, and more.  On the eve of the 2024 elections, join our panel of experts as they talk through which hazards worry them this year, and when…

Speaker(s)
Ned Foley, Ohio State University
Matt Masterson, Microsoft
Mary McCord, Georgetown University Law Center
Wendy Weiser, New York University
2024 Constitution Day Panel: Previewing the Supreme Court Term
Sep 17, 2024, 12:00 pm

Join P*Law for a Preview of the Supreme Court Term.  Leading journalists and scholars look back at the Supreme Court Term just past and at what’s coming up on the Court’s docket when the 2024-25 Term opens the first Monday in October. Moderated by P*LAW Director Deborah Pearlstein, panelists discuss the Court’s most consequential rulings…

Speaker(s)
Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal
Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica
Adam Liptak, New York Times
Kate Shaw, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Challenges Facing American Democracy in 2024 and Beyond
Apr 25, 2024, 4:30 pm

Moderator: Tom Edsall

Panelists: Deborah Pearlstein, Nolan McCarty

The Justice John Marshall Harlan Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication Presents Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Dallet
Apr 8, 2024, 4:30 pm

At the center of national debates over gerrymandering, abortion, and the growing polarization of the courts, Justice Dallet discusses the role of the judge in a constitutional democracy. 

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