Democracy's Future?

Read Aziz Rana's book The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize A Document That Fails Them (2024)   Read Aziz Rana's recent New York Times op-ed, The Constitution Won't Save Us from Trump.

Sandeep Vaheesan, The Red States Fighting the Good Fight Against Big Tech , The New Republic, Feb. 24, 2024. Amicus Brief of the Open Markets Institute in Netchoice v. Paxton Zephyr Teachout, Texas's Social-Media Law is Dangerous. Striking it Down Could Be Worse. The Atlantic, Feb. 20, 2024.

Check out the Irish Electoral Commission's information website for voters about the referendum. Read Professor Cahillane's op-ed, " The ‘women in the home’ provision is hardly a suitable sentiment for a modern Constitution. " Irish Citizens' Assembly Report on Gender Equality 2021 Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) Committee Report on Gender Equality 2022

Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez is Professor of Public Law at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre and a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.  She is an internationally renowned expert on human rights, comparative public law, bioethics, reproductive rights, national security, religious freedom, and feminism.  In recent years, she has held visiting fellowships at NYU, Princeton, Fordham, and o...

Read Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq, and David Landau, Democracy's Other Boundary Problem:  The Law of Disqualification in California Law Review (2023). Tom Ginsburg is Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law  and Political Science at the University of Chicago, He is the author Democracies and International Law (2021), How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018), and Judicial R...

On January 1, the Supreme Court of Israeli issued a long-anticipated decision, striking down the Government’s efforts to limit the Supreme Court’s power.  The case was argued a few weeks before Hamas attacked Israel, and decided in the midst of ongoing war.  In this episode, two leaders of Law Professors for Democracy in Israel join Democracy’s Future to break down the landmark Supreme Court decis...

Veronica Undurraga was the President of the Expert Commission created in December 2022 to draft a new constitution for Chile.  She is a professor of Law at Universidad Adolfo Ibañez and author of many scholarly articles on Chile's constitutional process, including Engendering a constitutional moment: The quest for parity in the Chilean Constitutional Convention (2020) in ICON. For background on th...

Sohrab Ahmari is the author of How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do about It .  He also founded the online magazine The Compact , and was formerly the op-ed editor of the New York Post .  He was also a columnist and editor for the Wall Street Journal , and has written for The New York Times , The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Spectator, Chronicle of Higher Education,...

Sarah Kreps is the John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell School of Public Policy's Tech Policy Institute.  She has presented her research to PCAST (the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology) and authored five books, including, most recently, Social Media and International Relations (Cambridge University Pre...

Read Digital Empires and Professor Bradford's earlier acclaimed book, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World . 

To learn more about threats to democracy in Ohio, read David Pepper's 2021 book, Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines .   Read David Pepper's latest book, Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American , and find more practical tools here.

Will democracy survive backsliding, polarization, power grabs, gerrymandering, and challenges to the legitimacy of courts? Join the hosts, Fordham Law professors Julie Suk and Zephyr Teachout, in an exploration of threats to democracy in the United States and around the world.

Read Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt's new book, The Tyranny of the Minority. Their 2017 bestseller, How Democracies Die , is a must-read, too.