Posted by Speaker: Jan-Werner Müller
On 24 February 2022, our panel was joined by Professor Jan-Werner Müller* to discuss his newly-released book, Democracy Rules (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).
As before, our panel included the leaders of our research project: Honorary Associate Professor Adam Czarnota and Professor Martin Krygier, both of the University of New South Wales, and Professor Wojciech Sadurski of the University of Sydney.
The session was recorded and the archive edition is now available for viewing.^
The discussants take a tour of key themes from the book, then the international audience participated in the Q&A session (Q&A begins after about 1 hour).
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Our project co-hosted this talk with the Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law.
^Recording was advised to all participants. Views expressed herein are those of the authors/speakers and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government, the Australian Research Council, or the individual’s parent institution.
*Jan-Werner Müller is Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Politics, and Founding Director, Project in the History of Political Thought, at Princeton University, where he has been teaching since 2005. Previously, from 1996 until 2003 he was a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and from 2003 until 2005 he was Fellow in Modern European Thought at the European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College. Among his various books, Was ist Populismus? [What is Populism?] has been published or is scheduled to be published in more than twenty other languages. His public affairs commentary and essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, the New York Times, and Project Syndicate.
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