Constitutional Promises Workshop

On May 2-3 the Yale Center for Representative Institutions will host a 2-day workshop on Constitutional Promises, with panels featuring the following topics and scholars: 

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