"Beyond Reform and Revolution in Constitution Making: from Central Europe to South Africa"
Begins |
7 Apr 2010 - 6:00pm |
| Ends |
7 Apr 2010 - 8:00pm |
| Location |
66 West 12th Street. Room 510 |
"Beyond Reform and Revolution in Constitution Making: from Central Europe to South Africa"
Date: April 7, 2010
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Room 510, 66 West 12th St.
Professor Arato will present a theory of "post sovereign constituent power and authority," through his current work in Turkey and Israel/Palestine. Examining the general applicability of this paradigm and its major principles, Professor Arato will address both to its political pre-conditions and its normative gains. Through the application of post sovereign constituent power and authority theory to present day Turkey, the talk will consider the limitations of the perspective today.
Professor Arato is the Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory, has taught at Ecole des hautes etudes, and Sciences Po in Paris, and the Central European University in Budapest. Professor Arato had a Fulbright teaching grant to Montevideo in 1991, and was Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/M, Germany. Professor Arato has served as a consultant for the Hungarian Parliament on constitutional issues: 1996-1997, and as U.S. State Department Democracy Lecturer and Consultant on Constitutional issues in Nepal 2007.