American Politics and US Constitutional Law: Helle Porsdam

CULS is excited to present a guest lecture by Professor Helle Porsdam on American history and culture through the lens of constitutional law, taking as her point of departure the current political situation in the USA.

Helle is is Professor of Law and Humanities at the Center for Studies in Legal Culture in the Copenhagen Faculty of Law, where she teaches American Culture and holds a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights. She did her PhD in American Studies at Yale University, and has been a Liberal Arts Fellow twice at the Harvard Law School as well as a fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and the University of Munich.

This event was kindly Sponsored by Clifford Chance.

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