Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
2007-11-27
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Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
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2007-11-27
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In the wake of 9/11, the Bush Administration has repeatedly sought to expand the power of the executive branch, often in secret. What are the dangers of an executive branch unchecked by Congress and the Judiciary? Do the realities of a global war on terror call for an executive branch with increased authority? Frederick A.O. Schwarz will discuss the risks and consequences of the Bush Administration's actions and what can be done about it.
Following a presentation by Frederick A.O. Schwarz, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, the meaning and significance of the changes in executive branch powers will be discussed by former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, Mr. Schwarz, and John R. Tunheim, United States District Judge.
Mr. Schwarz is Chief Counsel of the Brennan Center, which he joined full time in 2002. Since graduation from law school in 1960, Mr. Schwarz has had an uncommon career, mixing the highest level of private practice with a series of critically important public service assignments. Mr. Schwarz’s private practice was all at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he was a litigation partner with a broad and varied practice.
In government: from 1975-76 Mr. Schwarz was Chief Counsel to the Church Committee (or as it was formally known, the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Activities with Respect to Intelligence Activities). He was New York City Corporation Counsel under Mayor Edward I. Koch (1982-86). Then in 1989, he chaired the Commission that extensively revised New York City’s Charter. And from 2003-2008 he chaired the New York City Campaign Finance Board.
Mr. Schwarz received an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1957 and a J.D.magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1960, where he was an editor of the Law Review. After a year’s clerkship with Chief Judge J. Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he worked one year for the government of Northern Nigeria as Assistant Commissioner for Law Revision under a Ford Foundation grant, then in 1963, he started at Cravath where he became a partner in 1969.
Mr. Schwarz has written two books. The most recent, written at the Brennan Center (with Aziz Huq), is Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (The New Press, 2007; paperback 2008). The earlier book was Nigeria: The Tribes, the Nation, or the Race--The Politics of Independence (The MIT Press, 1965). He has also written numerous op-ed and magazine articles, the earliest being a 1966 article on “The United States and South Africa: American Investments Support and Profit from Human Degradation.”
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Jacobs, Lawrence R.. (2007). Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/216232.
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