News archive The Galway - Maryland Summer Constitutional Law Seminar

“The Global Crisis of Constitutional Democracy”

Date: 8th – 11th June 

Location: In Person at NUI Galway (Saturday's seminar will be held on Zoom)

If you would like to attend please email: ioanna.tourkochoriti@nuigalway.ie

Schedule

Wednesday, June 8: Democracy in Crisis? Antecedents and Social Preconditions

9:00-10-20: Mark A. Graber, “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Forgotten Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution”

10:30-11:50: Peter Danchin, “Navigating the Backlash Against Global Law and Institutions”

1:30-3:00: Class discussing of Graber and Danchin

Thursday, June 9: The Political Theories of Free Speech: Two Models of Freedom

9:00-10:20: Ioanna Tourkochoriti, Freedom of Expression: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2022) (30 minute presentation, hour discussion)

10:30-11:50: Discussion of Tourkochoriti, Freedom of Expression

Friday, June 10: Constitutionalism or Constitutional Democracy? Intellectual History and Implications

9:00-10:20: Martin Loughlin, Against Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2022)
(30 minute presentation, hour discussion)

10:30-11:50: Discussion of Loughlin

Saturday, June 11: Academic Freedom in Contemporary Constitutional Democracies

8:00-9:20: Adrienne Stone, Open Minds, Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech in Australia (LaTrobe University Press, 2021), via zoom (30 minute presentation, hour discussion)

9:30-10:50: Discussion of Stone, TBA

1:30-3:00: Wrap-up Discussion led by Professors Tourkochoriti, Danchin, and Graber