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Shep Melnick on Adversarial Legalism
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Shep Melnick on Adversarial Legalism

Second in the Syllabus Series
Wesley Yang
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Apr 25, 2022
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This is the second episode in the Syllabus series, wherein I do a deep dive into a subject with an academic expert.

R. Shep Melnick, Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College and co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government, has put together a syllabus of readings that we will working through on the subscrib…

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