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GISME Annual Symposium on the Ethics of Democracy
GISME’s 8th annual fall symposium falls on November 22, 2020. This is all day event (from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) held in Hariri room 370.
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Date and time
Location
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business 37th and O Streets NW Washington, DC 20057
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About this event
8:15 - 8:30 am - | 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 pm | 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