Democracy's Future?

By Julie Suk

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What's Democracy's Future? about?

Is democracy falling apart in the United States and around the world? Are law and legal institutions the problem or solution to the crises that are threatening democracies everywhere? This season, the Fordham Law Podcast digs deep into the big questions facing democracy and its uncertain future.

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Democracy's Future? episodes:

06.10.2024
Dangers of Constitutional Veneration
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.
05.28.2024
What is Social Media's Role in Our Democracy?
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. PaxtonZephyr Teachout, Texas's Social-Media Law is Dangerous. Striking it Down Could Be...
03.05.2024
Ireland's Referendum on Women's Role in the Home
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...
02.26.2024
Will the French Constitution Enshrine the Right to Abortion?
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...
02.07.2024
Disqualifying Political Candidates Who Threaten Democracy: Global Perspectives
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...
01.14.2024
War and the Future of Democracy in Israel
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...
12.15.2023
The Polarizing Struggle for a New Constitution: Chile's Upcoming Referendum
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,...
12.11.2023
From Tyranny, Inc. to "Win-Enough" Democracy
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...
11.20.2023
Artificial Democracy? How to Regulate the Threat of AI
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...
11.06.2023
Digital Empires
Read Digital Empires and Professor Bradford's earlier acclaimed book, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World.
10.30.2023
Saving Democracy, One State at a Time
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...
10.23.2023
Is American Democracy Dying?
Read Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt's new book, The Tyranny of the Minority. Their 2017 bestseller, How Democracies Die, is a must-read, too.
10.23.2023
Introducing: Democracy's Future?
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...