The Limits of Executive Power: The Obama-Trump Transition

Jody Freeman
Jody Freeman

The Limits of Executive Power: The Obama-Trump Transition

Speaker: Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Friday, March 10, 2017
12:10pm - 1:10pm

President Obama used executive power to accomplish many of his domestic and international policy goals, especially, in the area of climate and energy policy. What is the risk that a Trump administration will significantly repeal the Obama legacy. What are the legal constraints on roll-back and retrenchment, and what, as a result, is the lesson about the limits of Executive Power?