Columbia-Cardozo Transnational Constitutionalism Seminar

Professors Seyla Benhabib and Susanna Mancini

Thursdays 4:10-6:10pm alternating weeks at Columbia Law School, 435 W 116th St. Jerome Greene Hall 501 and Cardozo Law School, 55 5th Avenue.

Guests from outside Columbia University must register in order to enter Jerome Greene Hall. If you would like to join us, please contact Jasmine Jaghab at ([email protected]) to be registered as a guest and receive the speaker’s paper. 

January 30: Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Civic Horizons: Pursuing Democratic Citizenship in Modern America,
1912-2024, (Columbia)

February 6: Frédéric Mégret,  James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, The Ties that Bind, (Cardozo)

February 13: David OwenProfessor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton, Civil Geopolitics and the Transnationalisation of the State, (Columbia) 

February 27: Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, Professor of Law, Los Andes
University, Colombia, The 1991 Constitution, the Constitutional Court and the Tension between Individual Rights and Radical Difference, (Cardozo)

March 6: Ayelet Shachar, the Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Chair in Comparative Law, University of California, Berkeley, Citizenship (Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law) (Columbia) 

March 13: Federico Casolari, Dean and Professor of European Union Constitutional Law, The University of Bologna Law School, Italy, EU Citizenship and Money: A Liaison Dangereuse?* International and EU Legal Issues Concerning the Selling of EU Citizenship, (Cardozo)

March 27: Alon Harel, Mizock Professor of Law and member of Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, The Essential Constitution, (Columbia) 

April 3: Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of Normative Orders, Goethe University, Germany, Toward a Critical Theory of Trust, (Cardozo) 

April 10: Maggie Blackhawk, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, paper forthcoming, (Columbia)

April 24: Cristina Rodriguez, Leighton Homer Surbeck
Professor of Law, Yale Law School, paper forthcoming, (Cardozo)