
Trump’s Lessons for Defending the Rule of Law
Jun 29, 2022 Antara Haldar explains why the US House of Representatives’ January 6 Committee is right not to rely on logic alone.
Antara Haldar is Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, Visiting Faculty at Harvard University, a former fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the principal investigator on a European Research Council grant on law and cognition.
Jun 29, 2022 Antara Haldar explains why the US House of Representatives’ January 6 Committee is right not to rely on logic alone.
Jun 28, 2022 Antara Haldar highlights a potential institutional advantage of developing countries, shows how the hesitation to appeal to voters’ emotions is putting progressives at a disadvantage, and considers where the economics discipline is headed.
Jun 22, 2022 Antara Haldar argues that solving the world's most pressing problems will require new collective identities.
May 18, 2022 Antara Haldar sees the conservative Supreme Court majority setting the stage for a sweeping reversal of generations of gains.
Apr 18, 2022 Antara Haldar explains why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s addition to the Supreme Court matters for the institution’s legitimacy.
The United States’ culture wars and political polarization are intensifying in the wake of a Supreme Court term studded by a series of controversial landmark decisions. Are the Court’s critics justified in claiming that a right-wing legal insurgency threatens individual rights and even American democracy itself?