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Home » Press Releases » Marquette Law School: Hallows Lecture to discuss legal ideas that shifted political power in the U.S., March 2
MILWAUKEE — Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia University, will deliver the 2026 Hallows Lecture, titled “’Unstated’: How Three Implicit Legal Ideas Have Sidelined Congress and Empowered the President and the Courts,” on Monday, March 2, at 5 p.m. at Eckstein Hall, 1215 W. Michigan Ave. Merrill will set forth several implicit legal ideas whose effect has been to s...