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...School constitutional scholar; Alan Dershowitz, 35, Harvard Law School criminal-law expert; Gerald Gunther, 46, Stanford Law School constitutional specialist; Philip Kurland, 51, University of Chicago constitutional expert and editor of the annual Supreme Court Review; and Arthur Schlesinger, 55, City University of New York historian and author of the forthcoming The Imperial Presidency and one-time aide to President Kennedy. The moderator was TIME Correspondent James Simon, himself the author of a recent book on the Nixon court, In His Own Image. Excerpts from the colloquy...
...President has ever taken such an extreme position on immunity, but as Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland points out, none before Nixon has faced the possibility of criminal prosecution. Nor does the Constitution specifically deal with the question...
There was even less agreement on whether a presidential immunity from prosecution applies to a Vice President. Although three previous Vice Presidents (Aaron Burr, John C. Calhoun and Schuyler Colfax) were threatened with criminal charges, none was either brought to trial or impeached, so there are no clear precedents. Kurland believes that since only the President is indispensable, only he enjoys the privilege of immunity. According to the Constitution, the Vice President's sole duty is to preside over the Senate-and to be ready to succeed the President if necessary. But Bickel argues that immunity also applies...
...name has drawing power," says Law Professor Philip B. Kurland, 52, whose office has received "30 or 40 calls" since the class was announced two weeks ago. The semester-long course is limited to 25 undergraduates who will meet four hours a week...
...Kurland, a distinguished author (Politics, the Constitution, and the Warren Court) and a consultant to the Ervin committee, will focus on the questions of separation of powers, Executive privilege and impeachment. He sees the crisis as the "apex of the transfer of power away from our elected representatives to the Executive Branch of Government." When asked if his course would be taped, Kurland said...