New Chapter by Professor Neuman on the U.S. & International Law
A chapter by Gerald L. Neuman, HRP Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, titled “The United States Will Need International Law” is featured in an upcoming book to be published on July 7, 2026.
America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance, edited by Alexandra Natapoff and Guy-Uriel Charles, is a collection of essays by legal scholars from the Harvard Law School faculty. The book brings together the country’s leading legal experts to analyze the dramatic experiment in American governance that began in 1776—an experiment that remains highly contested 250 years later. Some essays explore the modern expansion of executive power, including its recent and dramatic willingness to use violence, both domestically and internationally. Other essays examine longstanding divides between workers, consumers, and markets, and the hard questions they raise about democratic accountability in our market-driven economy. And finally, some contributors address the future of our knowledge and governance institutions under pressure from the disruptions caused by technological and informational revolution.
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