Featured Speakers:
Professor Michael Gerhardt
Professor Robert Tsai
Event link:
https://lawdocket.bu.edu/ACS/rsvp_boot?id=375300
Official Event Description:
Join Professor Michael Gerhardt, one of the foremost experts in impeachment law in the United States, as he discusses his newest book, The Law of Presidential Impeachment, with BU Law's Professor Robert Tsai. There will be a lot of food including mac and cheese bites, chocolate-covered strawberries and spring rolls!
Professor Gerhardt’s has testified more than 20 times before Congress, including as the only joint witness in the Clinton impeachment proceedings in the House; has spoken behind closed doors to the entire House of Representatives about the history of impeachment in 1998; has served as special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee for eight of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices; and is one of only two legal scholars to testify in three different presidential impeachment hearings (Clinton in 1998, Trump in 2019, and Biden in 2023). During the Clinton and first Trump impeachment proceedings, Gerhardt served as an impeachment expert for CNN. In the second impeachment trial of President Trump, he served as special counsel to the Presiding Officer, Senator Patrick Leahy.
This event will feature Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell; Vermont AG Charity Clark; and Rhode Island AG Peter Neronha. It will be moderated by James E. Tierney, Lecturer on Law, Havard Law and Former Attorney General of Maine. Tierney will engage the AGs collectively in a conversation about their roles in the 21st century and in our rapidly changing democracy.
Co-sponsored by the Rappaport Center for Law & Public Policy.
Mary Ellen O’Connell and Ebrahim Moosa discuss the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice on South Africa's genocide case against Israel.
Professor O'Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Professor of International Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute. Her work is in the areas of international law on the use of force, international dispute resolution, and international legal theory. Professor O'Connell holds an MSc from LSE, an LLB and PhD from Cambridge, and a JD from Columbia.
Professor Moosa is the Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies in the Keough School of Global Affairs. He was born in South Africa, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cape Town, and a degree in Islamic and Arabic studies from Darul Ulum Nadwatul `Ulama in Lucknow, India.
