CAROL Lab
CANCELED - Constitutional Amendment and the Rule of Law
Fri
Apr
14
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED
What does the rule of law mean and what is its relationship to other important legal/political principles? Does the rule of law favor rigid or flexible amendment rules? Should certain elements of a constitution be unamendable? Does the rule of law require new constitutions to be enacted in accordance with the amendment rules of their predecessors? Should the courts be given the power to review amendments on formal or substantive grounds?
Speakers:
Moderator: Christina Bambrick
Presented by the Kellogg Institute Constitutionalism and Ruleof Law (CAROL) Policy and Practice Lab.
Speakers / Related People
Paolo G. Carozza
Previously the director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (2012-2022), Paolo Carozza is professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. With expertise in comparative constitutional law, human rights, law and development, and international law, he focuses his research on Latin America, Western Europe, and international themes more broadly...
Richard Albert
Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, professor of government, and director of constitutional studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on constitutionalism and constitutional amendment from comparative, doctrinal, historical, and theoretical perspectives...
Maxime St-Hilaire
Maxime St-Hilaire holds an LLD from Université Laval and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Université de Sherbrooke, where he teaches constitutional law and legal philosophy. Among his many publications are award-winning books on legal positivism and indigenous rights. While a doctoral student, Prof. St-Hilaire clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada after an internship at the Venice Commission.