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Democracy's Future?

Julie Suk
Democracy's Future?
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    Dangers of Constitutional Veneration

    10/06/2024 | 1h 5 mins.
    Read Aziz Rana's book The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize A Document That Fails Them (2024) 
    Read Aziz Rana's recent New York Times op-ed, The Constitution Won't Save Us from Trump.
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    What is Social Media's Role in Our Democracy?

    28/05/2024 | 42 mins.
    Sandeep Vaheesan, The Red States Fighting the Good Fight Against Big Tech, The New Republic, Feb. 24, 2024.
    Amicus Brief of the Open Markets Institute in Netchoice v. Paxton

    Zephyr Teachout, Texas's Social-Media Law is Dangerous. Striking it Down Could Be Worse. The Atlantic, Feb. 20, 2024.
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    Ireland's Referendum on Women's Role in the Home

    05/03/2024 | 52 mins.
    Check out the Irish Electoral Commission's information website for voters about the referendum.
    Read Professor Cahillane's op-ed, "The ‘women in the home’ provision is hardly a suitable sentiment for a modern Constitution."
    Irish Citizens' Assembly Report on Gender Equality 2021
    Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) Committee Report on Gender Equality 2022
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    Will the French Constitution Enshrine the Right to Abortion?

    26/02/2024 | 38 mins.
    Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez is Professor of Public Law at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre and a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.  She is an internationally renowned expert on human rights, comparative public law, bioethics, reproductive rights, national security, religious freedom, and feminism.  In recent years, she has held visiting fellowships at NYU, Princeton, Fordham, and other American universities, as well as at the European University Institute in Florence, LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome, and several other institutions of research and higher education around the world.  Her most recent book is L'Ecole et la République (The School and the Republic) (2023).  She is a frequent commentator in the French media on constitutional issues, and has provided expert testimony and advice on the proposals to amend the French constitution to enshrine abortion rights. 
    Read Stéphanie's article, Why and how to constituitonalize the right to abortion?  (in French)
    Read The New York Times' coverage of  the proposal to constitutionalize abortion in France.
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    Disqualifying Political Candidates Who Threaten Democracy: Global Perspectives

    07/02/2024 | 42 mins.
    Read Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq, and David Landau, Democracy's Other Boundary Problem:  The Law of Disqualification in California Law Review (2023).
    Tom Ginsburg is Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law  and Political Science at the University of Chicago, He is the author Democracies and International Law (2021), How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018), and Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003).
    David Landau is Mason Ladd Professor of Law at Florida State University, and also director of International Programs. He is the co-author of the book, Abusive Constitutional Borrowing (2021, with Rosalind Dixon) and a case book on Colombian Constitutional Law (2017, with Manuel Cepeda-Espinosa).
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Is democracy falling apart in the United States and around the world? Are law and legal institutions the problem or solution to the crises that are threatening democracies everywhere? This season, the Fordham Law Podcast digs deep into the big questions facing democracy and its uncertain future.
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