Thursday 5 May 2011 Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 15:00 - 16:00 Skip youtube video player Listen to audio Download audio Audio recording Speaker(s) Jon Elster Professor at the Collège de France Events Previous Lecture 13 Jan 2011 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster Introduction Lecture 20 Jan 2011 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster The Estates General before 1789 Seminar 24 Jan 2011 17:00 to 18:00 Jon Elster Introduction Lecture 27 Jan 2011 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster The convocation of the Estates of 1789 Seminar 31 Jan 2011 17:00 to 18:00 Arnaud Le Pillouer The question of executive structure in Philadelphia and Paris Lecture 3 Feb 2011 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster The Constituante between the king's soldiers and the Parisian crowds Seminar 7 Feb 2011 17:00 to 18:00 Pasquale Pasquino The constitutional function of the judiciary in the doctrine of the separation of powers in Versaill… Lecture 10 Feb 2011 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster The two great fears of 1789 Seminar 28 Feb 2011 17:00 to 18:00 Michel Troper The veto issue in France and the United States Lecture 3 Mar 2011 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster Writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Lecture 10 Mar 2011 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster Separation of powers : bicameralism and royal veto Seminar 4 Apr 2011 17:00 to 18:00 Jon Elster Equality, slavery, suffrage Seminar 26 Apr 2011 17:00 to 18:00 Mark Tushnet Amending the Constitutions: Process and Substance Lecture 28 Apr 2011 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster Linking the future : eligibility and amendments Seminar 2 May 2011 17:00 to 18:00 Michel Rosenfeld Comparison of the French and American constitutional models : genesis and evolution Lecture 5 May 2011 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster Conclusion Next See also Seminar related to the lecture: The Federal Convention and the Constituent Assembly of 1789: a closer look Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences The Constituent Assembly of 1789-1791 Collective decisions (continued)
