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Philip Hamburger

Philip Hamburger is a scholar of constitutional law and its history at Columbia Law School. He received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Before coming to Columbia, he was the John P. Wilson Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He also taught at George Washington University Law School, Northwestern Law School, University of Virginia Law School, and the University of Connecticut Law School. Professor Hamburger’s contributions are unrivaled by any U.S. legal scholar in driving the national conversations on the First Amendment and the separation of church and state and on administrative power. His work on administrative power has been celebrated by organizations like the Manhattan Institute and the Bradley Foundation, among others.

His most recent publications include:

Is Administrative Law Unlawful? (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Chevron Bias (George Washington Law Review, 2016)
Liberal Suppression (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
New York Times Opinion: Gorsuch’s Collision Course With the Administrative State (New York Times, March 20, 2017)

Websites

https://nclalegal.org/philip-hamburger/

Episode Appearances

Episode 152: “The Administrative State vs Our Civil Liberties” with Philip Hamburger and Jenin Younes

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09/21/2021

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Guest(s): Jenin YounesPhilip Hamburger

Joe Biden has mandated that businesses with more than 100 employees require every worker to be vaccinated or face weekly testing. It’s estimated this will impact over 80 million people or almost two thirds of the country’s workforce.

Setting aside his dictatorial and offensive tone, does Joe Biden really have the power to do this or is it that under the guise of “keeping us safe,” federal state and local governments have trampled our constitutional rights with draconian regulations and emergency orders with arbitrary executive decrees?

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