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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Watch Eric Posner & Jack Balkin on "The Politics of Emergency"

Bloggingheads.tv offers an entertaining and provocative
split-screen streaming video - a "diavlog"- of Eric Posner
(Chicago) and Jack Balkin (Yale) discussing
The Politics of Emergency.

Topics include:

Executive power in a time of emergency
Can the president change reality?
Obama’s political Ponzi scheme
Secrecy in the Obama administration
Jack vs. Eric: Should we fear the modern presidency?
Imagining an executive branch 2.0

Hat tip to the University of Chicago Law School
Faculty Blog.