November 22, 2019
All events held in the Hariri Building, room 370.
Agenda at a Glance
8:15-8:30 Welcome
John
Hasnas, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for the Study of
Markets and Ethics
8:30 - 10:15 am | Panel I – Structural
Issues
Moderator:
John Hasnas, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Essayists:
Georg Vanberg,
Political Science, Duke University: Elections, Constitutions, and the
Nature of Democracy
Keith
Whittington, Politics,
Princeton University: Legislatures versus the People in
Constitutional Design
Alan Charles Kors,
History, University of Pennsylvania: Consent of the Governed Is Not Enough
Emilee Booth Chapman,
Political Science, Stanford University: Shared Agency and the
Ethics of Democracy
10:30 - 12:00 am |
Panel II – Voting and the Franchise
Moderator:
Jason Brennan McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Essayists:
Julia Maskivker,
Political Science, Rollins College: Voting as a Duty of Common Pursuit
Daniel Weinstock,
Philosophy and Law, McGill University: For the
Democratic Enfranchisement of Children
Claudio Lopez-Guerra,
Philosophy, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics: Democrats,
Epistocrats, and the Enfranchisement Lottery
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch Recess
1:45 - 3:15 pm |
Panel III – Specific Applications
Moderator:
Peter Jaworski McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Essayists:
James Otteson,
Philosophy, Wake Forest University: Democracy
and People over Profit
Erin Kelly,
Philosophy, Tufts University: What is
Justice?
Chris Surprenant,
Philosophy, University of New Orleans: Democracy, Equality, and Transgender
Athletes
3:30 - 5:00 pm | Panel IV - Alternative Forms of
Democracy
Moderator:
William English McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Essayists:
Ryan Muldoon,
Philosophy, University at Buffalo: Local Diversity and Polycentric
Democracy
Ilya Somin,
Law, Antonin Scalia School of Law, George Mason University: Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration,
and Political Freedom
Alex Guerrero,
Philosophy, Rutgers: The Promise and Peril of Single-Issue
Legislatures
5:00 pm | Closing remarks
John Hasnas
Executive Director, Georgetown
Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics