**This seminar is now fully subscribed. Enrollment for the live seminar is now closed.**
The International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism presents a new online seminar on "Is the United States Constitution Broken?" on Friday, June 12, 2020 from 2:00pm to 4:30pm EDT.
This seminar will raise a controversial question: Is the United States Constitution itself a cause of the problems that ail modern American democracy? Each of the speakers has in the past offered answers to this question. Some have taken competing views on the need for a new constitutional convention in the United States. Others have asked whether the Constitution's onerous amendment procedure is impeding good-faith attempts to make real the promise of equality in the Fourteenth Amendment, specifically with respect to the ratification of the arguably unratifiable Equal Rights Amendment. And others are currently engaged in a project to write a modern version of the Constitution, an effort to imagine what a Constitution written today would look like and what it would protect. These are some of the subjects to be canvassed in this seminar with these leading scholars in American constitutional law and politics:
Each of the speakers will give prepared remarks for 10 minutes, with 5 minutes each of follow-up comments. The remaining 90 minutes will be reserved for discussion and debate involving seminar registrants.
This online seminar will be held live on Zoom on Friday, June 12, from 2:00pm EDT until 4:30pm EDT.
This course is open to all, including faculty and students in law, government, history, world affairs, and other fields.
Please indicate the full name and email address of the course registrant in your e-payment.The deadline to enroll is Monday, June 8, 2020.
The modest proceeds from this course will be used to cover some of the costs incurred in developing this course and also to fund bursaries for elementary and secondary school students in Canada, Haiti, and the United States.
All registrants completing this course will receive a certification to that effect from the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. No academic credit will be awarded in connection with this course.
Thank you for your interest in this course directed by Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.
The International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism presents a new online seminar on "Is the United States Constitution Broken?" on Friday, June 12, 2020 from 2:00pm to 4:30pm EDT.
This seminar will raise a controversial question: Is the United States Constitution itself a cause of the problems that ail modern American democracy? Each of the speakers has in the past offered answers to this question. Some have taken competing views on the need for a new constitutional convention in the United States. Others have asked whether the Constitution's onerous amendment procedure is impeding good-faith attempts to make real the promise of equality in the Fourteenth Amendment, specifically with respect to the ratification of the arguably unratifiable Equal Rights Amendment. And others are currently engaged in a project to write a modern version of the Constitution, an effort to imagine what a Constitution written today would look like and what it would protect. These are some of the subjects to be canvassed in this seminar with these leading scholars in American constitutional law and politics:
- Mark Graber, University of Maryland
- Jamal Greene, Columbia University
- Sanford Levinson, The University of Texas at Austin
- Julie Suk, City University of New York
Each of the speakers will give prepared remarks for 10 minutes, with 5 minutes each of follow-up comments. The remaining 90 minutes will be reserved for discussion and debate involving seminar registrants.
This online seminar will be held live on Zoom on Friday, June 12, from 2:00pm EDT until 4:30pm EDT.
This course is open to all, including faculty and students in law, government, history, world affairs, and other fields.
Please indicate the full name and email address of the course registrant in your e-payment.The deadline to enroll is Monday, June 8, 2020.
The modest proceeds from this course will be used to cover some of the costs incurred in developing this course and also to fund bursaries for elementary and secondary school students in Canada, Haiti, and the United States.
All registrants completing this course will receive a certification to that effect from the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. No academic credit will be awarded in connection with this course.
Thank you for your interest in this course directed by Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.