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Democracy's Futures Fall 2023 - Readings
- Thu., September 15
4:20-6:10 p.m.
Case Lounge - PAST SESSIONS (Readings)
- The Pandemic and Democracy
Danielle Allen (Harvard), John Witt (Yale Law)
Recap: Democracy Briefing 1: Building a Pandemic-Resilient Democracy
Readings- Danielle Allen, Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus, Preface and Chapter 1 (pp. 1–31)
- John Witt, American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19, Chapters 3 and 4 (pp. 61-106)
- Republican Judges Are Quietly Upending Public Health Laws, The New York Times
- How U.S. Pandemic Restrictions Became a Constitutional Battlefield, Foreign Affairs
- American Contagions: Unexpected Pasts, Unwieldy Presents, and Contested Futures, 18 U. St. Thomas L.J. 510
- Scrambling the New Sanitationist Synthesis: Civil Liberties and Public Health in the Age of COVID-19, University of Chicago Legal Forum
- Thu., September 29
4:20-6:10 p.m.
Case Lounge - PAST SESSIONS (Readings)
- The Future of the EU
Gráinne de Búrca (NYU Law), Charles Sabel (Columbia Law)
Primary Reading- Gráinne de Búrca, 2018, "Is EU Supranational Governance a Challenge to Liberal Constitutionalism?"
- Charles Sabel and David Victor, 2022, Fixing the Climate, Chapter 7, "Piecing Together a More Accountable Globalization"
- Signe Larsen, 2021, The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union, Chapters 1 and 5
- Gráinne de Búrca, 2022, "Poland and Hungary's EU Membership: On not confronting Authoritarian Governments"
- Sandrino Smeets & Derek Beach, 2020, "Intergovernmentalism and its Implications"
- Luke van Middelaar, 2021, Pandemonium: Saving Europe.
- Thu., October 13
4:20-6:10 p.m.
Case Lounge - PAST SESSIONS (Readings)
- Elections
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), Richard Pildes (NYU Law), Franita Tolson (USC Law)
Readings- Richard Briffault, Election Law Localism and Democracy, 100 N.C. L. Rev. 1421 (2022). Esp. pages 1422-30, 1452-67.
- Richard Pildes, Democracies in the Age of Fragmentation (Calif. L. Rev., forthcoming).
- Franita Tolson, In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023), Introduction and Chapter 5 (focus on Chapter 5).*
- Thu., October 27
4:20-6:10 p.m.
JGH105 - PAST SESSIONS (Readings)
- Courts
Ryan Doerfler (Harvard), Jamal Greene (Columbia Law)
Readings- Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, Democratizing the Supreme Court, 109 Calif. Law Rev. 1703 (2021). Esp. Parts I-III; through page 1752.
- Jamal Greene, The Wages of Being Sheep [Draft of Foreword], 6 Am. Const. Soc’y Sup. Ct. Rev. (2022 Forthcoming). (Article link may direct you to a permissions page, and access, once requested, will be granted to registrants promptly.)