Interviews
Exclusive conversations with leading professionals in the legal world.
Staff Writer Lisa Mathew interviews Harvard Law School Professor and former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Cass Sunstein in November 2022. We discussed his legal career, OIRA accomplishments, behavioral economics, administrative law, and politics more broadly.
Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and former Dean of Students at Harvard Law School, has taught at the law school since 1981. Before teaching at Harvard, Minow clerked for Judge David Bazelon of The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She is an expert in human rights and minority advocacy and has written numerous books and scholarly articles. Minow has also served on various committees and boards, such as the Independent International Commission Kosovo, has received several awards and nine honorary degrees from schools around the world, and was appointed to the Legal Services Corporation by President Barack Obama in 2009. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, her master’s degree in education at Harvard, and her law degree at Yale Law School.
Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji is the current President (Chief Judge) of the International Criminal Court, located at The Hague in the Netherlands. He began his nine year term on the ICC bench in 2012 before being elected its President in 2018. Prior to his tenure on the Court, he was the legal advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and lead counsel in high-profile cases and ad hoc international tribunals. Judge Eboe-Osuji also practiced as a barrister before the highest courts in Nigeria and Canada and taught international criminal law at the University of Ottawa. He has published over 500 legal research papers, written two books, and submitted numerous amicus briefs to the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
— Justice Stephen G. Breyer
For our Fall 2025 Issue, Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reflects on pragmatism, executive power, substantive due process, and more.