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The Visual Arts: Making Democracy Visible

Thursday, January 21, 2016
6:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101

Part of "The Arts and the Culture of Democracy" Series.

The Rise of the Constitution

Friday, February 19, 2016
12:00 p.m.
Barat House, Boston College Law School

A Theory of Judicial Review

Monday, February 29, 2016
12:00 p.m.
Barat House, Boston College Law School

Since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what never before existed: a truly global morality. Some of that morality 鈥� the morality of human rights 鈥� has become entrenched in the constitutional law of the United听States. Michael Perry's latest book, "Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States"听explains the morality of human rights and elaborates on three internationally recognized human rights that are embedded in U.S. constitutional law:听the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment; the right to moral equality; and the right to religious and moral freedom. The implications of one or more of these rights for three great constitutional controversies 鈥� capital punishment, same-sex marriage, and abortion 鈥� are discussed in-depth.听In his lecture, Perry addresses the question of the proper role of the Supreme Court of the United States in adjudicating these controversies, and ways in which Judicial Review informs global morality.

Michael Perry听is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University. He specializes in Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Law and Religion. He is the author of twelve books and over eighty articles and essays. His most recent titles include:听Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States听(2013);听Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts听(2007);听Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court听(2009); 补苍诲听The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy听(2010).听

Perry did his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University, majoring in philosophy and minoring in theology (A.B., 1968). He studied law at Columbia University (J.D., 1973), and then served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein (1973-74) and, a year later, to U.S. Circuit Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler (1974-75).听Before coming to Emory, Perry was the inaugural occupant of the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law at Northwestern University (1990鈥�97), where he taught for fifteen years (1982鈥�97). He then held the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University (1997鈥�2003). Perry began his teaching career at the Ohio State University College of Law (1975鈥�82) and has taught as a visiting professor at a number of prestigious law schools.

What is the Responsibility to Protect? And What Does It Mean in Syria?

Tuesday, April 5, 2016
6:00 p.m.
Fulton Hall, Room 511

Michael Walzer听is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. As a professor, author, editor, and lecturer, Michael Walzer has addressed a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state. His books (among them Just and Unjust Wars, Spheres of Justice, The Company of Critics, Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, and On Toleration) and essays have played a part in the revival of practical, issue-focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life. For more than three decades Walzer served as co-editor of听Dissent, now in its 61st year. His articles and interviews frequently appear in the world鈥檚 foremost newspapers and journals. He is currently working on the third volume of听The Jewish Political Tradition, a comprehensive collaborative project focused on the history of Jewish political thought. A new book,听The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions听was published in March of 2015.

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The Rise and Fall (?) of World Constitutionalism

Thursday, April 14, 2016
5:00 p.m.
Barat House, Boston College Law School

Bruce Ackerman听is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of fifteen books that have had a broad influence in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. His major works include听Social Justice in the Liberal Stateand his multivolume constitutional history,听We the People. His most recent books are听We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution听(2014),听The Decline and Fall of the American Republic听(2010),听The Failure of the Founding Fathers听(2005), 补苍诲听Before the Next Attack听(2006). His book,听The Stakeholder Society听(with Anne Alstott), served as a basis for Tony Blair鈥檚 recent introduction of child investment accounts in the United Kingdom, and his book,听Deliberation Day听(with James Fishkin) served as a basis for 鈥淧BS Deliberation Day鈥�, a national series of citizen deliberations produced by McNeill-Lehrer on national television for the 2004 elections. In 2010, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers. He also writes for the general public, contributing frequently to听The New York Times,听Washington Post听补苍诲听The Los Angeles Times, and has served, without charge, as a lawyer on matters of public importance. He was a lead witness for President Clinton before the House Judiciary Committee鈥檚 Impeachment Hearings, and a principal spokesman for Al Gore before the Florida legislature during the election crisis of 2000. Professor Ackerman is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Commander of the French Order of Merit, and the recipient of the American Philosophical Society鈥檚 Henry Phillips Prize for lifetime achievement in Jurisprudence.

Music and the Culture of Democracy

Thursday, April 21, 2016
6:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101

Performing Democracy: Private Citizens on the Public Stage

Thursday, September 10, 2015
6:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101

Panel: Constitutional Design by Judiciary?

Thursday, September 24, 2015
12:30 p.m.
Barat House
Boston College Law School

Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law, at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law. She earned her BA and LLB from the University of New South Wales, and was an associate to the Chief Justice of Australia, the Hon. Murray Gleeson AC, before attending Harvard Law School, where she obtained an LLM and SJD. Her work focuses on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design, theories of constitutional dialogue and amendment, socio-economic rights and constitutional law and gender, and has been published in leading journals in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, including the听Cornell Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law,听International Journal of Constitutional Law, American Journal of Comparative Law, Osgoode Hall Law Journal,听听Oxford Journal of Legal Studies听补苍诲听Sydney Law Review. She is co-editor, with Tom Ginsburg, of a leading handbook on comparative constitutional law,听Comparative听Constitutional Law听(Edward Elgar, 2011), and a related volume,听Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia听(Edward Elgar, 2014), co-editor (with Mark Tushnet and Susan Rose-Ackermann) of the Edward Elgar series on Constitutional and Administrative Law, on the editorial board of the听Public Law Review,听and associate editor of the听Constitutions of the World听series for Hart publishing.听 Dixon is a member of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and deputy director of the Herbert Smith Freehills Initiative on Law and Economics. She previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Her areas of expertise include constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, constitutional design, constitutional amendment, socio-economic rights, and law and gender.

Professor Mark Tushnet, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies examining (skeptically) the practice of judicial review in the United States and around the world. He also writes in the area of legal and particularly constitutional history, with works on the development of civil rights law in the United States and (currently) a long-term project on the history of the Supreme Court in the 1930s.
Professor Tushnet's areas of interest include Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Civil Rights History; Legal History: Twentieth Century American Legal History; Constitutional Law; Comparative and Foreign Law: Comparative Constitutional Law; Legal History: Legal History of U.S. Slavery. His publications include听The New Constitutional Order听(Princeton University Press 2003),听The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies听( Mark Tushnet & Peter Cane eds., Oxford 2003), and "Defending Korematsu?: Reflections on Civil Liberties in Wartime,"听Wisconsin Law Review听273 (2003).

Anna Su's primary areas of research include the law and history of international human rights law, U.S. constitutional law (First Amendment), and law and religion. Her research has appeared in the听Vanderbilt Law Review, the听International Journal of Constitutional Law听and the听Journal of the History of International Law.
Anna听holds an SJD from Harvard Law School where her dissertation was awarded the John Laylin Prize for best paper in international law. She received听her JD and AB degrees from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. Prior to coming to Toronto, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy based in SUNY Buffalo Law School, and a graduate fellowship in ethics with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She worked as a law clerk for the Philippine Supreme Court and was a consultant to the Philippine government negotiating panel with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Giving Corporate Bodies their Due, and Only their Due with Philip Pettit

Monday, September 28, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101

Philip Pettit听is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, where he has taught political theory and philosophy since 2002,听and for a period that began in 2012-13 holds a joint position as Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Born and raised in Ireland, he was a lecturer in University College, Dublin, a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bradford, before moving in 1983 to the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University; there he held a professorial position jointly in Social and Political Theory and Philosophy until 2002. He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010 and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2013; he has long been a fellow of the Australian academies in Humanities and Social Sciences. He holds honorary professorships in Philosophy at Sydney University and Queen's University, Belfast and has been awarded honorary degrees by the National University of Ireland (Dublin), the University of Crete, Lund University, Universite de Montreal, Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Athens. Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit appeared from OUP in 2007, edited by Geoffrey Brennan, R.E.Goodin, Frank Jackson and Michael Smith. He gave the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Berkeley in April 2015 under the title The Birth of Ethics, which he is currently preparing for publication as a book.

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Three, not Two, Concepts of Liberty: The Idea of Social Freedom with Axel Honneth

Thursday, October 8, 2015
6:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101
Boston College

Axel Honneth听is Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt and at Columbia University. Since 2001, he is also the Director of the Institute for Social Research. His research interests include Social Philosophy, Ethics and Social Theory; he understands his own work as a contribution to the continuation of Critical Theory.

His English language publications include:听The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory听(MIT 1990),听The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts听(Polity 1995),听Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange听(co-authored with Nancy Fraser, Verso 2003),听Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory听(Polity 2007);听Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory(Columbia UP 2009);听The Pathologies of Individual Freedom. Hegel's Social Theory听(Princeton UP 2010);听The I in We. Studies in the Theory of Recognition听(Polity 2012);听Freedom's Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life(Columbia UP 2014).

听蹿谤辞尘听听辞苍听.

Who owns national territory? Who owns the city?

Thursday, October 15, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101

Saskia Sassen听is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chairs The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007), and the 4th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2011). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001.听 Her books are translated into twenty-one languages. She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Frameworks (under contract with Harvard University Press). She contributes regularly to www.OpenDemocracy.net and The Huffington Post.

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Book Discussion Panel
Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention

Tuesday, October 27, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Barat House
Boston College Law School

Professor Mary Sarah Bilder听teaches in the areas of property, trusts and estates, and American legal and constitutional history at Boston College Law School. She received her B.A. with Honors (English) and the Dean鈥檚 Prize from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, her J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School, and her A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in the History of American Civilization. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Francis Murnaghan, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. She writes primarily in the areas of constitutionalism and the history of the Constitution, early American legal culture and the legal profession, and the history of the book and legal education. She was the Lucy G. Moses Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in 2001 and was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in the spring of 2008. Professor Bilder is a member of the American Law Institute, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She is member of the State Bar of Wisconsin (inactive status). She was given the Emil Slizewski Faculty Teaching Award in 2007 and was named Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar in 2009.
She is the author of听The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire(Harvard University Press, 2004), awarded the Littleton-Griswold Award from the American Historical Association. She recently co-edited听Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer听(Cambridge University Press, 2009). Her articles appear in several important collected volumes of essays and a wide variety of journals, including the听Yale Law Journal, the听Stanford Law Review, the听Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, the听George Washington Law Review,听Law and History Review,听Law Library Journal, and the听Journal of Policy History.
She has received a William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Grant, the Boston College Annual Prize for Scholarship, a Boston College Distinguished Research Award, a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, and was a Boston College Law School Fund Scholar. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of听Law and History Review, 补苍诲听The Journal of Legal Education, the Board of听The New England Quarterly, and is a member of the American Law Institute, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Saikrishna Prakash听is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, and Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor at the University of Virginia. His scholarship focuses on separation of powers, particularly executive powers. He teaches Constitutional Law, Foreign Relations Law and Presidential Powers at the Law School.
Prakash majored in economics and political science at Stanford University. At Yale Law School, he served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and received the John M. Olin Fellowship in Law, Economics and Public Policy. After law school, he clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. After practicing in New York for two years, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and as an associate professor at Boston University School of Law. He then spent several years at the University of San Diego School of Law as the Herzog Research Professor of Law. Prakash has been a visiting professor at the Northwestern University School of Law and the University of Chicago Law School. He also has served as a James Madison Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Heather Gerken听is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Gerken specializes in election law and constitutional law.听 She has published in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Political Theory, Political Science Quarterly, Roll Call, Legal Affairs, Legal Times, The New Republic, Democracy Journal, and elsewhere.听 She has served as a commentator for a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, NPR, the Lehrer News Hour, Bill Moyers, CNN, MSN51茶馆, and N51茶馆 News. Her most recent scholarship explores questions of election reform, federalism, diversity, and dissent.听 Her work has been featured in The Atlantic鈥檚 鈥淚deas of the Year鈥� section, the Ideas Section of the Boston Globe, and NPR鈥檚 On the Media.听 It has also been the subject of three academic symposia.
Professor Gerken clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th Circuit and Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court. After practicing for several years, she joined the Harvard faculty in September 2000 and was awarded tenure in 2005. In 2006, she joined the Yale faculty.
Professor Gerken has won teaching awards at both Yale and Harvard, been named one of the nation鈥檚 鈥渢wenty-six best law teachers鈥� by a book published by the Harvard University Press, was featured in the National Law Journal for balancing teaching and research, won a Green Bag award for legal writing, testified three times before Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and serves as a trustee for Princeton University.听 Professor Gerken served as a senior legal adviser in the 鈥淏oiler Room鈥� for the Obama for America campaign in 2008 and 2012.听 Her proposal for creating a 鈥淒emocracy Index鈥� was incorporated into separate bills by then-Senator Hillary Clinton, then-Senator Barack Obama, and Congressman Israel and turned into reality by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which created the nation鈥檚 first Election Performance Index in 2013.

David Strauss听is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1973. He then spent two years at Magdalen College, Oxford, on the Marshall Scholarship and received a BPhil in politics from Oxford in 1975. In 1978, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was developments editor of the Law Review. Before joining the Law School faculty, he worked as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice and was an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States.
Strauss joined the Law School faculty in 1985. He has published articles on a variety of subjects, principally in constitutional law and related areas, and recently published The Living Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is, with Geoffrey Stone and Dennis Hutchinson, editor of the Supreme Court Review. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Georgetown. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Strauss has argued eighteen cases before the United States Supreme Court. In 1990, he served as Special Counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. He is a member of the national Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society. He has also served Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Chicago Council of Lawyers. In addition to his current teaching interests - constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, elements of the law, and administrative law - he has taught civil procedure and torts.

听蹿谤辞尘听听辞苍听.

The Selective Re-Bordering of Citizenship and Migration

Thursday, November 5, 2015
12:00 p.m.
Barat House
Boston College Law School

Ayelet Shachar听is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto. She has published and lectured widely on citizenship theory, immigration law, multiculturalism, cultural diversity and women's rights, law and religion in comparative perspective, talent migration and global inequality. She was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Shachar is the award-winning author of听Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women鈥檚 Rights听(Cambridge University Press),听The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality听(Harvard University Press)鈥攏amed international ethics notable book in recognition of its 鈥渟uperior scholarship and contribution to the field of international ethics,鈥� and over seventy articles and book chapters published in venues such as the听Journal of Political Philosophy,听Political Theory, NYU Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review,听and the听Yale Law Journal. She is the recipient of excellence awards in three different countries, the most recent of which was awarded to her by the Migration & Citizenship Section of the APSA.

Shachar earned her LL.B in law and B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, from Tel Aviv University; LL.M. and J.S.D, both from Yale Law School. Before arriving at Yale, she was law clerk to Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel. In addition to delivering keynotes and lectures to academic and general audiences on five different continents, Shachar sits on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals in her field and has provided pro-bono expert consultation to judges, governmental commissions and the World Bank, as well as non-governmental organizations specializing in citizenship, immigration and religious toleration. Shachar has held appointments as the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School, and the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is also a member of the Max Planck Society 鈥� one of the world鈥檚 leading research organizations in science and humanities. Her new book,听Olympic Citizenship听(to be published by Oxford University Press), explores the legal and ethical challenges of international migration, focusing on the highly skilled.

The Clough Center presents Dr. Shirin Ebadi

Tuesday, November 10, 2015
4:00 p.m.
Gasson Hall, Room 100

Dr. Shirin Ebadi J.D.,听was awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote human rights, in particular, the rights of women, children, and political prisoners in Iran. She is the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and only the fifth Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in any field.

Dr. Ebadi was one of the first female judges in Iran. She served as president of the city court of Tehran from 1975 to 1979 and was the first Iranian woman to achieve Chief Justice status. She, along with other women judges, was dismissed from that position after the Islamic Revolution in February 1979. She was made a clerk in the court she had once presided over, until she petitioned for early retirement. After obtaining her lawyer's license in 1992, Dr. Ebadi set up private practice. As a lawyer, Dr. Ebadi has taken on many controversial cases defending political dissidents and as a result has been arrested numerous times.

In addition to being an internationally-recognized advocate of human rights, she has also established many non-governmental organizations in Iran, including the Million Signatures Campaign, a campaign demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian law. In January 2006, along with sister Laureate Jody Williams, Dr. Ebadi took the lead in establishing the Nobel Women's Initiative.

听Dr. Ebadi is also a university professor and often students from outside Iran take part in her human rights training courses. She has published over 70 articles and 13 books dedicated to various aspects of human rights, some of which have been published by UNICEF.听 In 2004, she was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

Authority and Authoritarianism in Fiction and Politics

Thursday, November 12, 2015
6:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101

Ending the Cold War and Setting the Terms of the Future World Order

Wednesday, November 18, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101