Constitutional Promises

May 2nd 

10:30AM-12:30PM Giulia Oskian “The System of Democratic Law: Tocqueville on Constitutional Politics” Isaac Nakhimovsky “Machiavelli Upside Down: From Constitutional Reason of State to the Liberalism of Fear” Natasha Wheatley Response 

2:00PM-4:00PM Rohit De & Ornit Shani “The Horizons of India’s Constitutional Imagination in its Tribal Frontiers” Jonathan Wyrtzen “The Treachery of Great War Treaties: the Making of the Post-Ottoman Middle East” Nazmul Sultan Response 

May 3rd 

10:30AM-12:30PM Steven Sawyer “Standing Amid the Ruins of the Political Constitution: The Democratic Construction of the Administrative Constitution in France” Lucia Rubinelli “Democracy, Simple: Rethinking Democracy after the Abolition of Universal Male Suffrage in France, 1850-1852" Karuna Mantena Response 

2:00PM-4:00PM Mark Peterson “The Philadelphia Constitution: Blueprint for a Speculative Nation” Joshua Simon “The American Origins of Positivist International Law” Marcela Echeverri Response