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Participants spoke about the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings. They commented on various audio excerpts from the hearings and responded to viewer comments and questions. The Army-McCarthy hear…

Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer talked about the relevance of foreign law for American Constitutional adjudication. Among the topics they addressed were using foreig…

Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Former German Constitutional Court Justice Dieter Grimm spoke to faculty and students about legal issues and court systems in various parts…

Attorneys and legal experts from the U.S. and Great Britain talked about integrating international law into national law and how the court systems might incorporate principals of internation…

Law professors talked about the relevance of international law in national and local courts. Among the topics addressed were efforts to bring former President Pinochet to justice, implementa…

On the anniversary of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s (R-WI) “Wheeling speech,” in which he accused Truman administration officials of being influenced by communists, panelists spoke about McCarth…

Mr. Meny opened the session by speaking about the impact of globalization on democracy and about a multilateral world subject to international laws. President Clinton said that transnational…

Panelists discussed the need and the means to create an integrated global economy which would facilitate social inclusion and social justice. Fundamental to their proposals was President Bil…

Supreme Court justices and others gathered to honor Justice William Brennan and to celebrate the opening of a law center named for him at New York University. After the ceremony, the center’…

This is the second part in a four-part series on the legacy of the Warren Court. Justices William O. Douglas, John M. Harlan and Hugo L. Black of the Warren court were discussed, including t…