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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable with Professor Richard Bellamy
DESCRIPTION:The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights’ Constitutional Roundtables are an annual series of lunchtime discussion forums that provide an opportunity to consider developments in Canadian constitutional theory and practice.  The Constitutional Roundtable series promotes scholarship and aims to make a meaningful contribution to intellectual discourse about Canadian constitutional law. \nThe Asper Centre is pleased to present a lunchtime Constitutional Roundtable by Professor Richard Bellamy (Professor of Political Science at the University College of London) on Tuesday November 12\, 2024\, at 12h45 EST on “Democracy through Courts?” based on a chapter of his forthcoming book titled Defending the Political Constitution.  \n \nABSTRACT: The democratic critique of judicial review by constitutional courts has prompted its defenders to counter that courts have democratic qualities as good as\, and in certain respects even stronger than\, conventional democratic politics. This article offers a critical analysis of three arguments favouring this approach. The first argues that constitutional courts operate as exemplars of democratic deliberation. In particular\, they give expression to the public reasons underlying democracy and ensure democratic practice does not subvert its ideals. The second holds that rights-based litigation offers a form of democratic participation\, providing a voice to those who might have been excluded from electoral democracy. The third contends that judges operate in a similar way to elected representatives\, who are best conceived as trustees rather than as delegates. All three views are found wanting. Courts do possess certain limited democratic qualities. However\, they are not intrinsic features of courts themselves. They arise from their being dependent upon rather than independent from the conventional democratic process. \n*All are welcome * Light Lunch provided * No Registration Required*
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LOCATION:Jackman Law Building Room J140\, 78 Queen’s Park
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