Thursday 27 January 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 Documents and media Download support pdf (153.54 KB) 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)
