What Harvard's Lawsuit Should Have Said

To explain to us how institutional academic freedoms implicate corporate rights—and how Harvard could have leveraged these corporate rights in its 2025 lawsuit over the Trump Administration’s funding freeze—Michael Banerjee, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC Berkeley Law, joins us today to talk about his piece, “What Harvard’s Lawsuit Should Have Said.” This piece was published as an online Article on August 4, 2025. This episode was recorded in September 2025. Host & Script: Juliette Draper (Volume 114 Podcast Editor) Transcript: Davis Rich (Volume 115 Podcast Editor) Production: Jonah Smith (Volume 115 Senior Technology Editor); Petra Hilton (Volume 115 Technology Editor) Soundtrack: Composed and performed by Carter Jansen (Volume 110 Technology Editor) Introductory Quote: Judge Thelton E. Henderson

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This episode was published on Mar 31, 2026.

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