CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An oral history consisting of a single digital video recording (2018.78.8.1). It was collected as part of the Poor People’s Campaign Interviews.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Peter B. Edelman is a Professor for the Georgetown University Law Center with 28 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1988 Forum as a Legislative ...

In 1996, Edelman resigned from the Clinton administration in protest against the president’s signing welfare reform legislation. Here, the Georgetown University law professor sharply criticizes the ...

Thirty-nine years ago, Peter Edelman was in Nebraska assisting Sen. Robert F. Kennedy as he won this state’s Democratic presidential primary election. Edelman will return to the state this week to ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this past week he's revoking dozens of pieces of guidance to law enforcement agencies around the country. One of those guidances, for example, was a notice ...

Like a lot of people who worked for the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Peter Edelman still has strong, reverent feelings for the man, more than 50 years after he was assassinated. “I think about him ...

I've lived long enough to understand that the differences among Americans are often greatly exaggerated -- that deep down we are a lot more alike than we are different. This truth extends to politics ...

The Georgetown University Law Center, along with law firms Arent Fox LLP and DLA Piper LLP, will open the D.C. Affordable Law Firm, a new nonprofit law firm aimed at serving lower-income individuals, ...

When Bill Clinton signed the 1996 welfare reform bill, it seemed that he had hammered the last nail in the coffin of American liberalism. Since the New Deal, welfare had been an entitlement, a ...

On Feb. 21, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued its long-awaited tax-exempt bond financing decision, Ursinus College v. Prevailing Wage Appeals Board (No. 18 MAP 2023). Its opinion is a major ...