Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS)
@ccds-aup.bsky.social
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris fosters an interdisciplinary approach to questions of democracy. Website: aup.edu/critical-democracy Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hufc6n
The CCDS is excited to announce our international conference: Quarter-Millennium of Franco-American Relations — May 28–29, Paris. Plenary: @davidavrombell.bsky.social & Françoise Mélonio W/ @princeton.edu Program: www.aup.edu/news-events/... RSVP: forms.gle/X4Y4tBg8MHvq...
📚 Book launch! Climate Justice Now (Columbia UP, 2026), a cross-disciplinary call to action on climate & inequality. 📅 March 25, 18:15 📍 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, Room C-104 Register: tinyurl.com/CCDSClimateJusticeNow More Info: www.aup.edu/news-events/... Book: cup.columbia.edu/book/climate...
Join Stephen Sawyer's lecture on "The New National History" at the Lingnan University History Department's Distinguished Speaker Series. 📅 24 February ⏳ 10:30am (HKT) 🏢 LKK108 (or via Zoom)
Can the House of Commons handle multi-party politics? Earlier today we were joined by @elliechowns.bsky.social, @courtenayilbert.bsky.social and @louisevthompson.bsky.social to discuss smaller parties in the Commons. Listen to a recording 👉 linktr.ee/constitution.... Or watch a recording 👇
Can the House of Commons handle multi-party politics?
The 2024 election delivered an unusually fragmented opposition; almost half the non-government seats in the House of Commons were won by parties other than the Conservative 'Official Opposition'.…
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To celebrate my appointment as the Ralph Miliband Professor of Politics & Philosophy at LSE Law School & the School of Public Policy, I'll give an inaugural lecture entitled “Are Revolutions Justified?”. Registration required - look forward to seeing many of you! ❤️ lselaw.events/event/are-re...
Lea Ypi Inaugural Lecture | Are revolutions justified? - LSE Law School Events
Moralists think that if the ends of revolution are right, revolution cannot be wrong. Legalists think that since the means of revolution are wrong, revolution cannot be right. In this lecture Lea Ypi ...
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“The United States was the architect, very largely, of the rules that I have been involved with my whole life,” Sands says. “We saw it as the mansion on the hill, the guardian of the idea of the international rule of law.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/m...
‘This Could End Very Badly’: A Human Rights Lawyer Fears a New Age of Impunity
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... In a new paper in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Eze Paez and I introduce “sentientist political liberalism,” an attempt to reconcile the ideas of society as a system of cooperation and public justification with taking animals seriously.
Sentientist Political Liberalism
This paper introduces sentientist political liberalism. Elaborating on the fundamental ideas in John Rawls's political liberalism, we propose that the scheme of fair social cooperation among persons ...
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How is the royal family (and its finances) scrutinised by parliament? By the government? By the media? On 26 February, join Valentine Low, Helle Krunke and David Torrance at our free, online event to discuss whether the monarchy is sufficiently accountable. Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....
New paper on agonistic workplace democracy 🚨 Workplace democracy is too often viewed as peaceful & deliberative, while implicit hierarchies from within & without the workplace skew interactions. We must acknowledge conflict to dismantle these hidden inequalities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Apply by Sunday become @uclspp.bsky.social's new Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics! Importantly, the successful candidate will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities. Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD. Apply 👇
Job opportunity: Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics
The UCL Department of Political Science and Constitution Unit are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics. The successful candidate will join the senior team at the Unit.
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Book Launch: Stephen Sawyer, Demos Rising, Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800–1850 (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025). Commentary: @hayleyjhooper.bsky.social, Geneviève Rousselière, Jakob Vogel. 📅 Feb 2, 18:00 🏢 Room Q-801 Register: tinyurl.com/CCDSDemosRising
Starting the year with a bang 🚨 Correcting proofs on my forthcoming article on agonistic workplace democracy for Review of Social Economy. I argue for an agonistic approach to workplace democracy against the mainstream assumption that democracy is about rational and consensual deliberation.
A great way to kick off this year's French literature coverage in the @thetls.bsky.social: Marie Darrieussecq on the latest book by Emmanuel Carrère in the latest issue. www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
Mother was always right
It seems that Emmanuel Carrère is now thought to be France’s “greatest living writer”. France has always needed a greatest writer, and even if there are
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Members of the Yale community: Please join us on Jan. 21 & 22 for two conversations with @stuartbuck.bsky.social on reproducibility in science. Register to attend on 1/21 at bit.ly/3Z5IZbu or on 1/22 at bit.ly/4qdXZAi
New book: A History of Economic Thought at the Frankfurt Institute: Beyond the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, 1923-1945, by Ali Ahmad amzn.to/4beZolf
New Diritti Comparati Vlog! Shai Dothan presents his latest book Elites, Power Struggles, and the Law. How Courts Support Diffuse Interests, Routledge 2025. A must-watch for anyone interested in constitutional and comparative law! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3f...
Shai Dothan - Elites, Power Struggles, and the Law
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Book Launch: Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025), by Miranda Spieler (AUP). Commentary: Anne Lafont (EHESS), Pierre Singaravélou (Paris 1), Jennifer Boittin (UNC). 📅⏳: Jan. 14, 18:30 🏢: Q-801 ✍: tinyurl.com/AUPSpieler ℹ️: aup.edu/news-events/...
We are pleased to share the full lineup of presenters for the Law, State & Democracy Symposium on Dec 11–12. You can read all presentation titles and abstracts here: sites.google.com/view/lsdsymp...
Dec 11–12: The CCDS & Center for Transcultural Studies host the inaugural “Law, State, and Democracy” Symposium: the inaugural event of a new initiative exploring the relationship between law, democracy, and the administrative state. aup.edu/ccds/lsd
What are the challenges and opportunities of cross-border citizen participation? This is one of the questions being studied by Anja Röcke at the Franco-German border. She is a 2025-2026 Alfred Grosser Chair Professor at the CEE, visiting from @uni-saarland.de. Read her interview ⤵
Anja Röcke, studying border regions as laboratories of European integration and democratic innovation
Meet the 2025-2026 Alfred Grosser Chair professor and learn more about her Franco-German project.
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Join our seminar on "Care and the Social Contract: Toward a Reconstructive Critique of the Modern", w/Stephen Sawyer. This lecture is part of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series. 📅 November 20, 18:15 🏢 Room Q-609 ✍ Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSSawyer
Join the CCDS Seminar on "Thinking Democracy after Marx and Empire" with Iain Stewart (@ucl.ac.uk). 📅 ⏲️ : Tuesday, November 3, 18:30 🏢 : Room Q-609, 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris ✍ : tinyurl.com/CCDSStewart ℹ️ : www.aup.edu/news-events/...
This is exactly right from @joshtpm.bsky.social There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...
There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform
I’ve made versions of this argument here in the Editors’ Blog and...
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Charles Walton’s (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social) lecture on the history of social rights and capacity to diffuse future wealth to be generated by AI, provided much food for thought on the tensions between theories of abundance and redistribution. More on his views: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Join the CCDS Seminar on "Social Rights in the Longue Durée: Between Redistribution and Theories of Abundance" with Charles Walton (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social). 📅 Oct. 7, 17:00 🏫 Room Q-609 ✏️ tinyurl.com/CCDSWalton (in person or via Zoom) 📰 aup.edu/news-events/...
Join us for a seminar on "Constitutional Right to Truth? How to Protect the Right to Information and the Right to Privacy Today" w/Marcin Kilanowski (Nicolaus Copernicus U). 🗓️ Sep 22, 12:10 🏢 Room C103, 6 Rue de Colonel Combes Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSKilanowski More info: tinyurl.com/KilanInfo
Join us for the Care & Democracy Seminar Series: "The Crisis of What Binds Us" with Sandra Laugier (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) and Zona Zarić (AUP) 🗓️: Sep 18, 18:15 🏠: 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, Paris Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSLaugierZ...
📢 We're hiring a Post-Doc in Critical Democracy at AUP for the 2025-2026 academic year! Join our Horizon-Europe project on resilient social contracts (www.co3socialcontract.eu) + help launch a “Law, State & Democracy” initiative. 🗓 Apply by Sept 1, 2025 👉 CCDS@aup.edu #Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law
