The Dilemma of Executive Power and Checks and Balances in Democracies

In this episode, Harold Hongju Koh of Yale Law School, Deborah Pearlstein of Princeton University, and Matthew Waxman of Columbia Law School  join Jeffrey Rosen for a conversation to explore Trump v. United States and the updated edition of Koh’s landmark book, The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century. This program originally streamed live on July 1, 2024 as part of the NCC’s America’s Town Hall program series.   

Resources: 

• Harold Koh, The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century (2024) 
• Trump v. United States (2024) 
• Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) 
• United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) 
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (Steel Seizure Case) (1952) 
• The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794 
• Deborah Pearlstein, “Lawyering the Presidency,” The Georgetown Law Journal (2022) 
• Deborah Pearlstein, “The Executive Branch Anticanon,” Fordham Law Review (2020) 
• Matthew C. Waxman, “War Powers Reform: A Skeptical View,” Yale L. J. Forum (2024) 

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