Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the two nations have been at war since. This week, two experts in constitutional law and international affairs join us to unpack the causes of this war, what potential implications for the core principles of liberal democracy and constitutionalism might be, and whether international law has any power to stop the fighting. Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and Jeffrey Kahn, professor of law and Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow at Southern Methodist University, join Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.
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Participants
Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Her work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. After 1989, Scheppele studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary and Russia, living in both places for extended periods. Most recently, she co-edited 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law (2021) for Cambridge University Press.
Jeffrey Kahn is Professor of Law and Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow at SMU. He teaches and writes on American constitutional law, administrative law, Russian law, human rights, and counterterrorism. He is the author of Mrs. Shipley’s Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists (2013), and co-author of National Security Law and the Constitution.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
Additional Resources
- “Consistency and Change in Russian Approaches to International Law,” Articles of War, Lieber Institute at West Point, by Jeffrey Kahn
- Kim Lane Scheppele on Live at the National Constitution Center: “Rule of Law in America and Abroad: A Comparative View”
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