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Jonathan Entin, J.D. – David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Joseph White, Ph.D. – Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Friday January 17, 2020
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nDampeer Room
\nKelvin Smith Library<\/strong><\/span>*<\/strong><\/span>
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

President Trump’s impeachment is just one of many events during his term that raise questions about how his presidency fits with the Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We should realize there are two problems with such a question. First, the Constitution says little about what presidents can and should do. Second, expectations about legitimate behavior have developed over time, with a wide range of disagreement.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, there have been a series of major conflicts during President Trump’s term, and as the election approaches and the Senate begins some form of trial, there is plenty to discuss and try to illuminate. For example:<\/p>\n

* How do the stated grounds for impeachment fit with either common understandings when the constitution was adopted or the logical purposes of impeachment?
\n* How does the president’s use of military force fit with how the war powers have developed?
\n* Is the declaration of an emergency to shift funds to the “wall” an especially egregious violation of Congress’ power of the purse?
\n* To what extent have the courts blocked questionable executive orders?<\/p>\n

Perhaps the broadest questions are the extent to which other branches have allowed the president to claim power, and whether there are norms that are as important as anything in the constitution.<\/p>\n

Join us for what should be a wide-ranging discussion.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

All best regards,
\nJoe White
\nLuxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

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About Our Guests<\/span><\/h3>\n

Jonathan Entin<\/strong>\u00a0has taught Constitutional Law; Administrative Law; Courts, Public Policy and Social Change; and a Supreme Court Seminar. Before joining the faculty in 1984, he clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (when she was on the U.S. Court of Appeals) and practiced in Washington with Steptoe & Johnson. The recipient of several teaching awards and a former co-editor of the\u00a0Journal of Legal Education<\/em>, he is at work on a book about equal protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joe White<\/strong>\u00a0joined the CWRU faculty in 2000, serving as Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science. As director of the Center for Policy Studies, he also organizes the Public Affairs Discussion Group. He previously was Associate Professor in the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and before that Research Associate and then Senior Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution. He teaches a series of courses on public policy and U.S. politics, and his research involves both health care policy and federal budgeting. Dr. White is currently teaching The American Presidency, and he has published extensively about budget politics between President and Congress.\u00a0<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Where We Meet<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. We usually meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Kelvin Smith Library requires all entrants to show identification when entering the building, unless they have a university i.d. that they can magnetically scan. We are sorry if that seems like a hassle, but it has been Library policy for a while in response to security concerns. Please do not complain to the library staff at the entrance, who are just doing their jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parking Possibilities<\/span><\/h3>\n

The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. From that lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates – just to the right if you were driving out – there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you’ll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

January 24: Public Health Approaches to Gun Violence.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Jane Timmons-Mitchell Ph.D.<\/strong>, Senior Researcher, Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education.<\/p>\n

January 31: The Internet of Things.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Kenneth A. Loparo, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Arthur L. Parker Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, and Faculty Director, Institute for Smart, Secure, and Connected Systems.<\/p>\n

February 7: Ohio in the 2020 Presidential Election.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Thomas C. Sutton, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Political Science and Director, Community Research Institute, Baldwin Wallace University.<\/p>\n

February 14: What to Do About Vaping???<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Erika Trapl, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and Associate Director, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

February 21: Are Nano-Particles the New Asbestos?<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Katharine Van Tassell, J.D.<\/strong>, Visiting Professor of Law.<\/p>\n

February 28: China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative and China\u2019s Record in Foreign Development.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Julia C. Strauss, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Chinese Politics, University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.<\/p>\n

March 6: The Racial Geography of Cleveland Heights.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Jessica A. Kelley, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Professor of Sociology.<\/p>\n

March 13: Spring Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 20: Taking Away the Car Keys (from seniors).<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Weidi Qin, MSW, MPH<\/strong>, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.<\/p>\n

March 27: Tibet: An Update.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ph.D.<\/strong>, John Reynolds Harkness Professor in Anthropology and Co-Director, Center for Research on Tibet.<\/p>\n

April 3: What\u2019s the Beef? The Controversy Over Health Effects of Red Meat.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Hope Barkoukis, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor in Wellness and Preventive Care and Chair, Department of Nutrition.<\/p>\n

April 10: TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 17: Targeted Assassinations, and Other Red or Not-So-Red Lines.<\/strong>\u00a0With Shannon French, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Inamori Professor of Ethics and Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence.<\/p>\n

April 24: Regulating Content of Online Platforms.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Raymond Ku, J.D.<\/strong>, Professor and Laura B. Chisholm Distinguished Research Scholar, CWRU School of Law.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

January 12, 2020<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

If you would like to reply, submit items for inclusion, or not receive this weekly e-mail please send a notice to:<\/span>\u00a0padg@case.edu<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Upcoming Events<\/span><\/h2>\n

Face of the Deep: Perverse Engagements with Neural Machine Translation<\/span><\/p>\n

A discussion with Tim Beal, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, Justin Barber and Michael Hemenway, AI Institute at Iliff School of Theology, Thursday January 30, 2020, 4:00 p.m., Room A13, Crawford Hall, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As part of the 2020 CWRU Spring Data Science Colloquium, Professor Beal and colleagues will discuss their project to explore new possibilities for translation within a post-print digital media environment. Working with emerging technologies of neural machine translation (NMT) and natural language processing (NLP) in the programming language of Python, they are exploring new models and methods for translating Hebrew biblical and other ancient texts. Whereas print translation pushes the translator toward closure, deciding on a single translation and relegating alternatives to footnotes or parentheses, how might new media technologies make it possible to provide readers\/users access to the processes of translation, hosting an encounter that attends to the rich ambiguities and polyvocalities of the other text in translation? Their goal is to use data processes in a way very different from what will be familiar to users of typical NMT systems such as Google Translate. Google Translate is used to avoid reflection, while the goal of this project is to invite users to participate in the processes of translation.<\/p>\n

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Governance of \u201cDo-It-Yourself\u201d Gene Editing<\/span><\/p>\n

The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum, a discussion with Maxwell J. Mehlman, J.D., Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the CWRU School of Law, Tuesday February 4, 2020, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59), CWRU School of Law, 11075 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A large and highly heterogeneous group of individuals conducts genetic and genomic research outside of traditional corporate and academic settings. They can be an important source of innovation, but their activities largely take place beyond the purview of existing regulatory systems for promoting safe and ethical practices. Historically the gene-targeting technology available to non-traditional experimenters has been limited, and therefore they have attracted little regulatory attention. New techniques such as CRISPR-cas9, however, may create a need for alternate governance approaches. This lecture explores whether alternate governance approaches might be needed and, if so, what governance approaches would be most likely to enable non-traditional experiments to be conducted safely and ethically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Center for Policy Studies
\nPublic Affairs Discussion Group<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Trump and the Constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Entin, J.D. – David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph White, Ph.D. – Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday January 17, 2020
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nDampeer Room
\nKelvin Smith Library<\/strong>*<\/strong>
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

President Trump’s impeachment is just one of many events during his term that raise questions about how his presidency fits with the Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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