Law in the Headlines: Exploring Current Legal Controversies, with Leora Harpaz

Law in the Headlines: Exploring Current Legal Controversies, with Leora Harpaz
(8 sessions)

Thurs, Sept. 12, 19, 26. Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 10:30-11:45am

Leora will review the important cases the Supreme Court agreed to decide this Term and their outcomes. These will include the two Donald Trump cases raising the issues of ballot access and presidential immunity, also gun rights, abortion, restrictions on the power of federal administrative agencies, and a series of First Amendment free speech cases. An interesting feature of the Term is that while some of the Court’s decisions reached the merits of the case, in numbers of high profile cases the Court either disposed of the case without reaching the merits, or wrote a limited opinion that remanded the case to the lower court to resolve many of the key issues in the first instance. Leora will address the fact that there was an unusual number of separate opinions written by individual Justices, even in cases where the Court reached a unanimous result. She will also discuss cases the Court has already agreed to review in the 2024-2025 Term. Students will have an opportunity to make suggestions for topics that they would like to have discussed in upcoming classes.