Professor Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law and Co-Faculty Director for the Program on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. His scholarship focuses on legal issues concerning the structure of democratic institutions and politics, separation of powers, administrative law, and national-security law. A clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall at the United States Supreme Court, Professor Pildes has been named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Carnegie Scholar. Full bio »
In an essay entitled Law and the President that I’ve just published in the Harvard Law Review, I began by providing a brief historical and political perspective on shifting views of presidential power over the course of the 20th and … Read more »
Forthcoming next month in the Harvard Law Review is an essay of mine entitled Law and the President. The essay, here, explores the extent to which law constrains the exercise of presidential power in both domestic and foreign … Read more »
Attorney General Eric Holder will apparently give a public address on Monday that will provide a fuller explanation and justification for the government’s policies on targeted killings, including for the targeted killing of an American citizen in Yemen. Other administration … Read more »
I want to put discussion of whether the government should publicly disclose the full legal framework behind its targeted killings program, including the killing of Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen, in a larger and more general philosophical and political context. Across … Read more »
As Bobby notes, the recently announced criminal prosecution of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, captured overseas almost three months ago by U.S. military forces, could be an important test of an emerging hybrid model for handling alleged terrorism cases that offers an … Read more »
First, my thanks to Ben, Jack, and Bobby for permitting me to become an affiliated blogger on this terrific site.
We are likely soon to get a test of how seriously Congress takes all of the War Powers Resolution (WPR). … Read more »
