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January 08, 2021
The American Conservative
Cass Sunstein And Adrian Vermeule: Leviathan’s Apologists
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- Philip Hamburger
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- Philip Hamburger Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law
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- Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History
October 19, 2020
American Historical Association
“Policing the Open Road” by Professor Sarah Seo ’07 Awarded the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize
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- Legal History
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- Sarah A. Seo Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law
October 01, 2020
The Phi Beta Kappa Society
“Policing the Open Road” by Professor Sarah Seo ’07 Wins Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
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- Legal History
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- Sarah A. Seo Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law
August 15, 2020
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Segregation on the Highways: A Review of Driving While Black and Overground Railroad
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- Sarah A. Seo
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- Sarah A. Seo Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law
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- Matthew C. Waxman
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- Matthew C. Waxman Liviu Librescu Professor of Law
November 13, 2019
Opinion: What slavery can teach Supreme Court justices about DACA
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By Jamal Greene and Elora Mukherjee
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security acted lawfully when it rescinded DACA in 2017. While there are obvious differences between slavery and deportation, the way antebellum courts in free states thought about the security of the state’s brown-skinned residents is instructive.