Democracy Unmoored – webinar recording

Speaker: Samuel Issacharoff

On 27 June 2023, online at 6pm Sydney time, our panel was joined by Professor Samuel Issacharoff for a discussion about his recent book, Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Our panel was the leaders of our project, Honorary Associate Professor Adam Czarnota and Professor Martin Krygier, of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Professor Wojciech Sadurski of the University of Sydney.

The session was recorded and the archive edition is now available for viewing.^

The discussants take a tour of key themes from the book, then the international audience participated in the Q&A session (Q&A begins after about 1 hour).

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This talk was co-hosted by the CEU Democracy Institute with the Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law.

^Recording was advised to all participants. Views expressed herein are those of the authors/speakers and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government, the Australian Research Council, or the individual’s parent institution.

*Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. He is a leading figure in the study of democracy, constitutions, and the courts, the author of Fragile Democracies: Contested Power in the Era of Constitutional Courts, and has written scores of articles on democratic challenges around the world. He served as a senior legal advisor to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and is long experienced as an appellate advocate in American courts. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (read more).