Date/Time: 5th of October 14:15-15:30
Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
Roberto Gargarella will talk about the deep crisis affecting constitutional democracies around the world. This crisis manifests itself both in a growing lack of confidence in constitutionalism and in an increase in citizens’ dissatisfaction with democracy.
He was recently awarded an ERC Advance Grant for a project that will offer concrete institutional alternatives to channel the demands of democracy and engage with activists and members of civil society, from a conception of democracy as a “conversation between equals”.
His new project aims to design institutional proposals that are both respectful of individual rights and the decisions resulting from democratic dialogue.
About the speaker:
Roberto Gargarella, a full professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Buenos Aires, teaches at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina, and is the director of the “Institutional Changes for Democratic Dialogue» project at the Department of Law at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
Attendance:
- Free and open to all
- The RDV WEBINAR SERIES is a collaboration between the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism and the Centre on Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen. The RDV webinar series is an interdisciplinary webinar where we invite national and international researchers to talk about their pioneering research on topics regarding law, democracy, and welfare.
- Join us at Jekteviksbakken 31.
- Refreshments will be served at the event.
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Photo credit: Siri Gloppen (LawTransform) / Joe Flood, Supreme Court protest against the repeal of Roe v Wade, May 4 2022 (Flickr) – adaptions have been made