Democracy and Constitutionalism



Democracy and Constitutionalism

Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, December 2005

Syllabus

Part one: Theories of Democracy - Philosophical Justifications

Procedural Fairness

1. Thomas Christiano, ‘Democracy as Equality’, in Estlund (ed.), Democracy, (Blackwell 2002), 31-50.

2. Andrei Marmor, ‘Authority, Equality, and Democracy’, 18 Ratio Juris (2005), 315-345.

Instrumental Conceptions of Democracy:

3. Richard Arneson, ‘Democracy is not Intrinsically Just’, in Justice and Democracy, ed. by Keith Dowding, and Robert E. Goodin, and Carole Pateman (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 40-58. (available online: )

Deliberative Democracy

4. Joshua Cohen, ‘Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy’ in J. Bohman and W. Rehg (eds,), Deliberative Democracy, (MIT, 1999), 67. Also in Estlund (ed.), Democracy, (Blackwell 2002), 87-106.

5. Jurgen Habermas, ‘Deliberative Politics’, in Estlund (ed.), Democracy, (Blackwell 2002), 107-125.

Epistemic Theory of Democracy

6. David Estlund, ‘Beyond Fairness and Deliberation: the Epistemic Dimension of Democratic Authority’, in Bohman & Rehg (eds.), Deliberative Democracy, (MIT, 1999), 173-204.

Part Two: Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

7. Ronald Dworkin, Freedom’s Law: The Moral Reading of The American Constitution, (Harvard, 1996), ‘Introduction: The Moral Reading and the Majoritarian Principle’, 1-38.

8. Jeff Goldworthy, ‘Originalism in Constitutional Interpretation’, 25 Federal Law Review, 1997, 1.

9. Jeremy Waldron, ‘The Constitutional Conception of Democracy’, in Estlund (ed.), Democracy, (Blackwell 2002), 51- 83.

10. Andrei Marmor, Interpretation and Legal Theory, Revised Second Ed. (Hart Publishing, 2005), chapter 9.

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Andrei Marmor

Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy

University of Southern California

amarmor@law.usc.edu

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