\nThe Charles River Room<\/strong>
\n10:00 a.m. \u2013 5:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n
BU School of Law<\/strong> We invite you to attend a conference on Democratic Failure<\/i> to be held at Boston University School of Law on Friday, September 28.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For some time, discourse about democracy in the United States and around the world has been marked by concerns about dysfunction, extreme partisanship, and deadlock. More recently, this discourse has taken a darker, even apocalyptic turn, to talk about crisis, failure, or death. What is democratic failure<\/i>? Does it presuppose a conception of democratic success and of the preconditions for success? How does democratic failure differ from or relate to other political or constitutional maladies, such as dysfunction, crisis, or rot? How might a democracy fail? How might it be saved?<\/span><\/p>\n This interdisciplinary conference\u2014the annual conference of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP)\u2014will take up questions concerning democratic failure. (The ASPLP is an interdisciplinary society of law scholars, political scientists, and philosophers who are interested in exploring legal and political philosophy outside of their home disciplines.) The first principal paper, Representation Failure<\/i>, is by political scientist Jane Mansbridge of Harvard University. The second, Du Bois\u2019s Defense of Democracy<\/i>, is by philosopher Derrick Darby of University of Michigan. The third paper, Democracy as Failure<\/i>, is by law professor Aziz Z. Huq of University of Chicago. Each paper will be commented on by scholars from the other two disciplines. The ASPLP will publish the principal papers and commentaries in NOMOS<\/i>, its annual book put out by New York University Press (to be edited by Melissa Schwartzberg and Daniel Viehoff).<\/span><\/p>\n Boston University School of Law<\/span>, the new<\/span> institutional home of the ASPLP<\/span>, is honored and delighted to host the conference<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n The conference is open to all. If you plan to attend, please RSVP here<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n Anyone interested in political and legal philosophy who wishes to join the ASPLP should contact James E. Fleming, President of the ASPLP (jfleming@bu.edu<\/span><\/a>), or Andrew Valls, Secretary-Treasurer of the ASPLP (theasplp@gmail.com<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Friday, September 28<\/strong><\/p>\n All panels and the business meeting will\u00a0take place\u00a0at Boston University School of Law,\u00a0765 Commonwealth Avenue<\/span><\/a>, in the Charles River Room\u00a0(Room 525).\u00a0Enter the Redstone Building and take the elevator to the fifth floor. There will be signs directing you to the Charles River Room.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 10:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m: Panel I: \u201cRepresentation Failure\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Principal Paper<\/strong>: Jane Mansbridge<\/a>, <\/span>Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School<\/p>\n Commentators<\/strong>: Yasmin Dawood<\/a>,\u00a0University of Toronto and Michael Fuerstein<\/a>, St. Olaf College<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12:00 \u2013 1:00 p.m: Lunch (Faculty Lounge, Room 1503)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1:00 \u2013 3:00 p.m: Panel II: \u201cDu Bois’s Defense of Democracy\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Principal Paper<\/strong>: Derrick Darby<\/a>, Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan<\/span><\/p>\n Commentators<\/strong>: Mark Tushnet<\/a>,\u00a0Harvard Law School and\u00a0<\/span>Turkuler Isiksel<\/span><\/a>, Columbia University<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3:30\u2013 5:30 p.m: Panel III: \u201cDemocracy as Failure\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Principal Paper<\/strong>: Aziz Z. Huq<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor Law, The University of Chicago Law School<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Commentators<\/strong>: Gerald Postema<\/a>,\u00a0University of North Carolina and Alexander Kirshner<\/a>, Duke University<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday, September 28, 2018<\/strong>. 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\n765 Commonwealth Avenue<\/strong>
\nBoston MA 02215<\/strong><\/p>\nSchedule of Conference Panels & Speakers<\/h2>\n
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