What the Courts Can Do if a President Defies Them ?
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Nous sommes cordialement invités par le HCF à participer à cet événement en ligne !___________________ INVITATION (ONLINE) Monday, April 28th, 20257 pm until 8 pm (CET)Electoral Reform in the US Proposals for Combating Polarization & Extremism What the Courts Can Do if a President Defies ThemIs the United States heading towards a full-blown constitutional crisis?______________Two law professors at New York University, Trevor W. Morrison and Richard H. Pildes, recently asked this burning question in a New York Times op-ed. It was provoked by members of the Trump administration who have hinted that officials should refuse to obey a court order against certain actions of the administration. The Harvard Club of France, together with the Princeton Alumni Association in France and the Harvard Kennedy School French Chapter, is honored to welcome Constitutional Law Professor Richard H Pildes for an exceptional conversation focusing on the measures courts can take to counter a defiant executive branch. A Harvard Law School JD '83 and Princeton BA '79, Professor Rick H. Pildes is a legal scholar who analyzes the intersection of politics and law and how they affect our democracy. He worked with the Senate to pass the "Electoral Count Reform Act" in 2022, which minimized the risk of a repeat of the January 6 chaos in future US presidential elections. He also served on President Biden’s 2021 Commission on the Supreme Court. This conversation will be moderated by Michael Otten (PU BSE '63, HBS MBA ‘67), who serves as president for “Reform Elections Now”, a US alumni organization who has been working for the past 5+ years on election reforms. This organization has supported the work of an academics’ task force that has produced a book on potential election reforms "Electoral Reform in the United States: Proposals for Combating Polarization & Extremism" This discussion will take place online. It is free but registration is compulsory.Please register here.Prof. Richard H. PildesRichard Pildes is one of America's leading scholars of constitutional law and a specialist in legal issues concerning democracy. A former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, he has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute, and has also received recognition as a Guggenheim Fellow and a Carnegie Scholar. President Biden appointed him to the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. In dozens of articles and his acclaimed casebook, The Law of Democracy, he has helped create an entirely new field of study in the law schools. His work in this field systematically explores legal and policy issues concerning the structure of democratic elections and institutions, such as the role of money in politics, the design of election districts, the regulation of political parties, the structure of voting systems, or the representation of minority interests in democratic institutions. He has written on the rise of political polarization in the United States, the transformation of the presidential nominations process, the Voting Rights Act, the dysfunction of America’s political processes, the role of the Supreme Court in overseeing American democracy, and the powers of the American President and Congress. In addition to his scholarship in these areas, he has written on national-security law, the design of the regulatory state, and American constitutional history and theory. As a lawyer, Pildes has successfully argued voting-rights and election-law cases before the US Supreme Court and the courts of appeals, and as a well-known public commentator, he writes frequently for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and was part of the Emmy-nominated NBC breaking-news team for coverage of the 2000 Bush v. Gore contest. WHEN: Monday, April 28th, 2025. From 7 pm to 8 pm (CET) WHERE: Online - Zoom Link to be provided after registration WHO: Open to all Harvard and Princeton alumni, as well as all IVY League Alumni and guests COST: Free - with compulsory registration REGISTRATION: Please register belowREGISTER HERE ModeratorDr. Michael Otten (Princeton BSE' 63, Harvard Business School MBA '67) “Reform Elections Now” - PresidentContactsHarvard Club of France : Stephanie Mareva Failloux - harvardcluboffrance@gmail.comPrinceton Alumni Association France: Caite Panzer - caite.panzer@gmail.com Harvard Kennedy School French Chapter: Annick Steta - annick.steta@gmail.com  
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