The Future of Liberal Democracy
The University of Texas at Austin
School of Law
Convened by
Richard Albert
William Stamps Farish Professor of Law
The University of Texas at Austin
Sandy Levinson
W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law
Professor of Government,
The University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, February 21
Reception
3:30pm in the Jamail Pavilion
Welcoming Remarks
4:30pm
Ward Farnsworth (Texas)
Richard Albert (Texas)
Opening Keynote Conversation
4:45pm-6:15pm
Jack Balkin (Yale) and Sandy Levinson (Texas)
In conversation with Michelle Goldberg (New York Times)
Friday, February 22
Session I: Illiberal Constitutionalism: An Oxymoron?
9:00am-10:45am
Chair: Daniel Brinks (Texas)
Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton)
Vlad Perju (BC)
Wojciech Sadurski (Sydney)
Kim-Lane Scheppele (Princeton)
Session II: The Erosion of Constraints on Executive Power
11:00am-12:45pm
Chair: Zachary Elkins (Texas)
Asli Bâli (UCLA)
Mark Graber (Maryland)
Russell Miller (Washington & Lee)
Miguel Schor (Drake)
Session III: Managing Difference and Diversity
2:00pm-3:45pm
Chair: Victor Ferreres Comella (Texas)
Vicki C. Jackson (Harvard)
Ayelet Shachar (Max Planck/Toronto)
Kristen Stilt (Harvard)
Sujit Choudhry (WZB Berlin)
Session IV: Constitutional Identity, a panel in honor of Gary Jacobsohn
4:00pm-5:45pm
Chair: Jeffrey Tulis (Texas)
Ran Hirschl (Toronto)
Heinz Klug (Wisconsin)
Hanna Lerner (Tel Aviv)
Monika Polzin (Augsburg)
With comments by Gary Jacobsohn (Texas)
Saturday, February 23
Session V: The Trump Phenomenon: American Exceptionalism or a Global Trend?
9:00am-10:45am
Chair: William Forbath (Texas)
Samuel Issacharoff (NYU)
Scot Peterson (Oxford)
Mark Tushnet (Harvard)
Mila Versteeg (Virginia)
Session VI: Constitutional Replacement by Constitutional Amendment
11:00am-12:45pm
Chair: Sergio Verdugo (Universidad del Desarrollo – Chile)
Carlos Bernal (Constitutional Court of Colombia)
John Dinan (Wake Forest)
Rosalind Dixon (UNSW)
Sanford Levinson (Texas)