The Department of Political Science presents:
Dr. Geoffrey Sigalet
Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University
Constructing Freedom:
On the Republican Separation of Powers and Judicial Review
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
1:15 – 2:45 PM
Room H 1220, Hall Building
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Dr. Sigalet will discuss two different justifications of the basic purpose of separating the institutional powers of legislatures and courts. He will explore how these frameworks relate to contemporary republican debates about judicial review, and furthermore examine why we separate institutional powers, so as to better understand contemporary debates in constitutionalism.
Geoffrey Sigalet is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill’s Research Group on Constitutional Studies and a research fellow at Stanford Law School’s Constitutional Law Center. He earned his PhD at Princeton University in 2018. His research concerns theories of judicial review, constitutional interpretation, and in particular the idea of “dialogue” between courts and legislatures about bills of rights. He is co-editor of Constitutional Dialogue: Rights, Democracy, Institutions (Cambridge 2019).
Sponsored by the Reading Lab in Political Theory
For more information contact Dr. Travis Smith at travis.smith@concordia.ca
Open to the entire Concordia Community