JSI Seminar: On Constitutional ReviewIn-person event Constitutional review is a continental European instrument of checking the parliamentary legislation for its compliance with the constitution. This practice has a long history traced from ancient Greek democracy to the French and American Revolutions up to the 20th century culminating in Constitutional Courts. The Czechoslovakian experience of its […]

JSI Seminar: A republican case for regulatory juriesIn-person event The idea of administrative juries was proposed by David Arkush in 2013, drawing on the republican revival in public-law theory. These proposed juries would make some key policy choices especially underlying delegated lawmaking in the US. The paper challenges some criticisms that have been made of […]

JSI Workshop: Positive Pluralism and its LimitsIn-person event This project asks how freedom of religion should be construed when applied to religious insular communities whose way of life is often at odds with Western assumptions of a good life. I will argue for protection of distinctive religious communal identities as entities in and of themselves […]

JSI Seminar: Social Rights and ProportionalityIn-person event This seminar outlines a model of proportionality analysis for the adjudication of positive constitutional economic and social rights . Three distinctions are the basis of this model: (i) the distinction between empirical and normative aspects of the adjudication of social rights; (ii) between the level and mode of […]

JSI Seminar: Natural Law to Natural Rights to Human RightsIn-person event **Please note this event date has been moved to one day earlier than originally advertised.** Natural law and natural rights are frequently discussed as if they are tightly connected, and human rights are presented as natural rights in a new label. But the relationship […]

Julius Stone Address: Law, Philosophy, and the Susceptible Skins of Living BeingsIn-person event   Catherine the Great (apparently) wrote to the French philosopher Diderot something along the lines of: “You philosophers are fortunate. You write on paper, and paper is patient. Unfortunate emperor that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.” […]