{"id":2307,"date":"2021-11-16T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jlpp\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:06:39","slug":"interview-with-lael-weinberger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jlpp\/interview-with-lael-weinberger\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Lael Weinberger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch <em>Harvard Journal of Law &amp; Public Policy<\/em> Editor-in-Chief Eli Nachmany&#8217;s interview with Lael Weinberger, the Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law at Harvard Law School, here:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T1a6fqmu3bk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lael&#8217;s paper, <em>Keep Distance Education for Law Schools: Online Education, the Pandemic, and Access to Justice<\/em>, can be accessed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3894382\">https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3894382<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lael Weinberger is the\u00a0Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law\u00a0at Harvard Law School. He was the Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellow at Harvard from 2019-20. Lael earned a JD with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School and clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and for Chief Justice Daniel Eismann on the Idaho Supreme Court. Lael also earned a PhD in history at the University of Chicago. His research interests include constitutional law, international law, civil procedure, law and religion, American legal history, and the legal profession. Lael&#8217;s academic articles and reviews have been published in the <em>University of Chicago Law Review<\/em>, <em>Constitutional Commentary<\/em>, and the <em>International Journal of Constitutional Law<\/em>, among others. His reviews and essays have appeared in publications including <em>Newsweek<\/em>, <em>National Review, Claremont Review, First Things, Christianity Today, Los Angeles Review of Books, <\/em>and the<em> New Rambler Review<\/em>. Lael is on Twitter <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaelWeinberger\">@LaelWeinberger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Harvard Journal of Law &amp; Public Policy Editor-in-Chief Eli Nachmany&#8217;s interview with Lael Weinberger, the Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law at Harvard Law School, here: Lael&#8217;s paper, Keep Distance Education for Law Schools: Online Education, the Pandemic, and Access to Justice, can be accessed here: https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3894382 Lael Weinberger is the\u00a0Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law\u00a0at Harvard Law School. He was the Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellow at Harvard from 2019-20. 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