Constitutionalism and the Free Society
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Wednesday, April 28
9 am
Welcoming remarks
Roundtable:
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Tom Ginsburg
Turkuler Isiksel
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Chair: Jacob Levy
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Wednesday, April 28
11 am
Panel:
Arash Abizadeh, Counter-majoritarian democracy: Persistent minorities, federalism, and the power of numbers
Yasmin Dawood, Effective Governance and the Two Faces of Constitutionalism
David Watkins, Democratic constitutionalism and non-domination: state actors and the perils and promise of bureaucratic discretion
Chair/ discussant: Evan Fox-Decent
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Wednesday, April 28
2 pm
Roundtable:
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Kelly Gordon
Phillipe Lagass茅
Christopher Manfredi
chair/ discussant: Victor Mu帽iz-Fraticelli
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Wednesday April 28
4 pm
Panel:
Teresa Bejan, Levelling
Guillaume Bogiaris, The Limiting Conditions of Resident-to-State Obligation in the Crito
Daniel Lee, The science of right
chair/ discussant: William Clare Roberts
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Thursday April 29
9 am
Roundtable:
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Yann Allard-Tremblay
Aaron James Mills
Christa Scholtz
chair: Yves Winter
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Thursday April 29
11 am
Panel:
Marcela Prieto听Rudolphy and听Sergio Verdugo,听Chile's constitution-making process: Revolution, evolution, and pragmatism
Claudia Heiss,听Chile's constitution-making听process: Building听institutions in a state of exception.
Javier Couso Salas.听On the competing conceptions of 'constitucionalism' behind the Bolivarian and liberal-democratic听constitution-building processes of听Latin America听(1988-2021)
chair/ discussant: Manuel Bal谩n
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Thursday April 29
2 pm
Panel:
Erin Crandall, Are Canadian cities entrenched in provincial constitutions? A question of political constitutionalism
Roberto Gargarella, Judicial review for defective democracies
Hoi Kong, What Is the Canadian Constitution? Institutional and Normative Reflections
chair/ discussant: Geoffrey Sigalet
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Thursday April 29
4:30 pm
Melissa Schwartzberg, Constitutionalism and Local Knowledge: From the Black Death to COVID
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Friday April 30
9 am
Panel:
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Nomi Clare Lazar, Constitutional alchemy
Geoffrey Sigalet,听On comity and contestation: Republicanism and the separation of powers
chair/ discussant: Daniel Weinstock
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Friday April 30
11 am
Wenyang Gao,听Feeling Free and Speaking with Authority: Republican Freedom as Status Freedom
Jimmy Lim,听Taking Thrasymachus Seriously: The Political Psychology of John Rawls
Vertika, Democracy is a Mirage of Equality! A Tocquevillean Reading of Contemporary Populism Illustrated by the Cases of France and Italy
chair/ discussant: Teresa Bejan
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Friday April 30
2 pm
Panel:
Samuel Bagg, The ideal of resisting state capture
Elizabeth Beaumont,听The Promise and Peril of Popular Constitutionalism for Constitutional Democracy
chair/ discussant: Victor Mu帽iz-Fraticellii
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Friday April 30
4 pm
Panel:
脡l茅na Choquette,听Enlarging the British settler state of Canada: A liberal policy
Vrinda Narain,听Constitutionalizing Women鈥檚 Equality Rights in India
Mariah Zeisberg,听Family-making as constitutional activism in 19th century antislavery politics
chair/ discussant: Catherine Lu
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Saturday May 1
10 am:
Victor Mu帽iz-Fraticelli
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11 am- 6 pm
Political theory in/ and/ as political science, Junior scholars workshop
by invitation; to preserve free discussion in the workshop, this part of the event will not be recorded.
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11 am
Alice Baderin, Lucy Barnes, and Lindsey Richards, 鈥淚nequality: From Distribution to Relationships鈥�
Discussant: Josiah Ober
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Glory Liu, 鈥淲hat鈥檚 the Matter with Inequality? Evidence from Surveys鈥�
Discussant: Melissa Schwartzberg
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2 pm
Alexandru Marcoci and Alexandra Oprea, Free Speech, Liberal Character, and the Educational Mission of the University
Discussant: Alison McQueen
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Tamar Malloy, Reading, Writing, Respectability: The Disproportionate Application and Effects of Respectability Requirements in U.S. Schools
Discussant: Rob Reich
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4 pm
Agnes Tam, Do Liberals Have to Fear Identity-Expressive Populism?
Discussant: Jack Knight
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Maxime Lepoutre, Political Understanding
Discussant: Jacob Levy
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This conference marks the tenth anniversary of RGCS and caps a three-year grant to RGCS from the John Templeton Foundation for the support of the study of "Constitutionalism as the political theory and political science of a free society." It is also a part the celebration of McGill's 200th anniversary. Additional support provided by grants from the Institute for Liberal Studies and the John Dobson Foundation.
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The Research Group on Constitutional Studies Student Fellowship is a vital part of RGCS' intellectual life, and is in a capital campaign to build an endowment to ensure that the fellowship and its opportunities remain available for students in future years. Please consider adding your support.听
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Conference co-organizers: Jacob Levy and Victor Mu帽iz-Fraticelli.
Conference assistant: Jimmy Lim
Technical support:听Shruti Predhep
Lin Centre administrative coordinator: Nina Ahrendt