2024 Scalia Lecture | Aditya Bamzai: Statutory Interpretation and the Separation of Powers

On March 27, Harvard Law School welcomed Aditya Bamzai, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, as the 2024 Scalia Lecturer. Bamzai's talk was titled "Statutory Interpretation and the Separation of Powers."

At UVA Law, Bamzai teaches administrative law, advanced administrative law, civil procedure, computer crime and conflicts of law, and he has written about these and related subjects. His work on the development of American administrative law has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review and various other journals. He is a coauthor of the forthcoming ninth edition of the casebook “Administrative Law: The American Public Law System, Cases and Materials.”

Bamzai has argued cases relating to the separation of powers and national security in the U.S. Supreme Court, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, D.C. Circuit and other federal courts of appeals. From 2019 to 2021, he served as a Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a federal agency charged with ensuring that the government’s national security efforts are balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

The Scalia Lecture Series, which was established by an anonymous donor in 2013 in honor of former Supreme Court Justice Antonin G. Scalia ’60, is aimed at promoting and advancing the understanding of the founding principles and core doctrines of the U.S. Constitution.