Is the United States at risk of a democratic decline? Can our constitutional design prevent democratic backsliding? Drawing on a rich array of international examples, University of Chicago law professors and authors of How to Save a Constitutional Democracy Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq show how the Constitution can play a positive role in maintaining a healthy democracy. Lana Ulrich, senior director content for the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Participants
- Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, and professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His latest book, How to Save a Constitutional Democracy, was written with Aziz Z. Huq, and his earlier books include Judicial Review in New Democracies, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions, which also won a best book prize from APSA; and Judicial Reputation. He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to gather and analyze the constitutions of all independent nation-states since 1789.
- Aziz Z. Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, and the Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. His scholarship concerns the interaction of constitutional design with individual rights and liberties. Before joining the Law School faculty, Huq worked as Associate Counsel and then Director of the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, litigating cases in both the US Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court. He was also a Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group, researching constitutional design and implementation in Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka.
- Lana Ulrich is the senior director of content, constitutional fellow, and senior counsel at the National Constitution Center, where she manages the Center's constitutional content and programming, including podcasts, America's Town Hall programs, exhibits, the online Interactive Constitution, and the Constitution Daily blog. She also assists with any legal matters relating to the Center's operations and directs the Continuing Legal Education program.
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