Lectures on Public Policy

Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s presentation will examine the ways that housing policies inspired and shaped by private sector organizations undermined the federal government's ability to enforce fair housing rules and regulations long after the...

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In this public lecture, Thomas Piketty will present new findings and reflections on global inequality dynamics. In particular, he will stress the need to go beyond the Western-centered historical perspective on inequality regimes developed in his...

Public Policy Lecture - Barbara Arnwine The State of Democracy and Voting in a Post-Shelby Era November 19, 2014 Barbara Arnwine, President and Executive Director of the national Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, will discuss the state...

In this lecture, Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, discusses how the increasing use of drones has become the most controversial aspect of the U.S. "war" on terrorism—more so than even the failure to close Guantanamo. Yet...

In this lecture, Owen M. Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, examines the state of the constitutional rules protecting the privacy of telephone conversations. These rules were first announced...

The world is running out of available water supplies, and the potential for conflict will be severe. In this lecture, Maude Barlow, Chair of the Council of Canadians and Chair of Food and Water Watch, sets out the nature and cause of the crisis and...

Observations of ongoing climate change, paleoclimate data, and climate simulations concur: human-made greenhouse gases have set Earth on a path to climate change with potentially dangerous consequences for humanity. James Hansen, climatologist and...

In this lecture, David Cole, Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, discusses how it became legal in the United States to engage in techniques such as water boarding by examining the role of lawyers in the Justice Department during the...

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will address the present and future of international human rights as part of the Institute’s Lectures on Public Policy. On the eve of the...