Prof. Dr. Kimberly Wehle,
University of Baltimore (USA)
Pardon Power: How the Pardon System Works—and Why
Date: 30.4.2025, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Room L619, 6th floor | Faculty of Law | Sigmund Freud University | Lassallestraße 3, 1020 Vienna
Please join Kim Wehle, legal scholar, media commentator and best-selling author of How to Read the Constitution—and Why, for a discussion of her latest book, Pardon Power: How the Pardon System Works—and Why. In this timely work, Wehle explores one of the more contentious tools of executive power in the United States: the presidential pardon. Kim will examine the historical origins, potential political and ethical dilemmas, and the role the executive pardon plays in the American system of checks and balances. She will offer na range insights on this often underestimated tool of federal power, examining its place within the American political system..
Please register until 29.4.2025: konrad.lachmayer@jus.sfu.ac.at
Biography
Kim Wehle is an author and tenured professor of constitutional law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She is currently serving as a Fulbright Scholar at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and the inaugural Thinker-in-Residence at the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam. She is also a legal contributor for ABC News and Zeteo.Professor Haupt has published numerous articles in law reviews including the Yale Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Boston University Law Review and University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, among others, and in medical journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the AMA Journal of Ethics, among others. Her first book, Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany: The Quest for Neutrality, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.
Book
Publisher: Woodhall Press
Publication Date: September 2, 2024
Trade Paper: 200 pages
ISBN: 978-1954907508.