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America's most significant health care reform initiative in over 50 years, and the centerpiece of President Obama's domestic policy agenda, is currently being challenged in federal courts across the country. Thus far, two district courts have pronounced the measure (at least in part) unconstitutional focusing on its individual mandate, while two courts have upheld the measure. Appeals are pending before the Circuit courts, and with more litigation on the way the question may soon end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Is the reform constitutional? How is the Supreme Court likely to rule? This panel, involving the nation's leading constitutional law scholars, will address these issues.
PANELISTS:
Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and former Solicitor General of the United States and Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and former Solicitor General of the United States and Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School, and former Senior Counselor for Access to Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.
Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center, whose work has been used by the courts finding the reform unconstitutional.
MODERATOR
I. Glenn Cohen, Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School and Co-Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
I. Glenn Cohen, Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School and Co-Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
Martha Minow, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Dean, Harvard Law School.
Martha Minow, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Dean, Harvard Law School.
| When | Thursday, March 24, 2011, 12 – 1:30pm |
| Where | Ames Courtroom |
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