Illiberalism and populism challenge liberal constitutionalism and its nexus to distributive justice in its three dimensions of material welfare, identitarian recognition and democratic representation. A Pluralist Theory of Constitutional Justice by University Professor Michel Rosenfeld (Oxford University Press 2022) develops a pluralist approach leading to the “justice essentials” designed to meet the above challenge and to reinvigorate liberal constitutionalism.

Schedule:

Introductory Remarks: 10:15 - 10:30 a.m.

Dean Melanie Leslie

Prof. Rebecca Ingber, Co-Director, Floersheimer Center (Tentative)

Panel One: Comprehensive Pluralism, Political Liberalism, Autonomy, and Representation: 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Frank Michelman, Walmsley University Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School.

Anna Stilz, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values. Director, Program in Values and Public Life, Princeton University

Daniel Bonilla, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and Visiting Professor, Yale Law School

Lunch: 12-1:30 p.m.

Panel Two: Constitutional Justice Confronts the Dynamic Between Ethnos and Demos and Between the Universal, the Singular, and the Plural: 1:30 - 3 p.m.

Susanna Mancini, Professor of Public Comparative Law, University of Bologna Law School, Italy

Marinos Diamantides, Professor of Constitutional Law and Political Theory, Birkbeck Law School, the University of London

Julie Saada, Professor of Philosophy at Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France

Coffee Break 3 - 3:30 p.m.

Panel Three: Constitutional Democracy Confronts Globalization, Populism, and the Quest for Individual Autonomy and Social Cohesion: 3:30 - 5 p.m.

Mattias Kumm, Inge Rennert Professor of Law, New York University Law School

Giuseppe Martinico, Professor of Comparative Public law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory, Political Science Department, Columbia University

Reception and Book Signing: 5 p.m.

Please reach out to hui.yang@yu.edu with any questions regarding this event.