Constitutional Studies

A conversation with Wim Voermans, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative law at Leiden University, on his book “The Story of Constitutions” (Cambridge University Press), with comments from Zachary Elkins, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Constitutional Studies Program will award its 2023 Book of the Year Award to Professor Voermans at this luncheon.

A conversation with Allan Rock, Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Canada (retired), on the cases he litigated and laws he sponsored in connection with Quebec’s attempted secession from Canada in 1995.

A conversation with Carlos Bernal, Justice (retired) of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, on his scholarship and judicial opinions on the doctrine of an unconstitutional constitutional amendment.

A conversation with David Pozen, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia University, on his new book “The Constitution of the War on Drugs” (Oxford University Press), with comments from Jennifer Laurin, William B. Bates Chair for the Administration of Justice at the University of Texas at Austin.

A conversation with Andrea Scoceria Katz, Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, on how the U.S. Constitution changes without an alteration to its text—and the costs to this form of constitutional change.

A conversation with Jaime Olaiz González, Professor of Constitutional Theory at Universidad Panamericana (Mexico), on the causes and consequences of the extraordinary ease of amendment in Mexico.