Monday 24 January 2011 Salle 4, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 17:00 - 18:00 Download audio Speaker(s) Jon Elster Professor at the Collège de France Events Previous Lecture 13 Jan 2011 3:00 - 4:00pm Jon Elster Introduction Lecture 20 Jan 2011 3:00 - 4:00pm Jon Elster The Estates General before 1789 Seminar 24 Jan 2011 5:00 - 6:00pm Jon Elster Introduction Lecture 27 Jan 2011 3:00 - 4:00pm Jon Elster The convocation of the Estates of 1789 Seminar 31 Jan 2011 5:00 - 6:00pm Arnaud Le Pillouer The question of executive structure in Philadelphia and Paris Lecture 3 Feb 2011 3:00 - 4:00pm Jon Elster The Constituante between the king's soldiers and the Parisian crowds Seminar 7 Feb 2011 5:00 - 6:00pm Pasquale Pasquino The constitutional function of the judiciary in the doctrine of the separation of powers in Versaill… Lecture 10 Feb 2011 3:00 - 4:00pm Jon Elster The two great fears of 1789 Seminar 28 Feb 2011 5:00 - 6:00pm Michel Troper The veto issue in France and the United States Lecture 3 Mar 2011 3:00 - 4:00pm Jon Elster Writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Lecture 10 Mar 2011 3:00 - 4:00pm Jon Elster Separation of powers : bicameralism and royal veto Seminar 4 Apr 2011 5:00 - 6:00pm Jon Elster Equality, slavery, suffrage Seminar 26 Apr 2011 5:00 - 6:00pm Mark Tushnet Amending the Constitutions: Process and Substance Lecture 28 Apr 2011 3:00 - 4:00pm Jon Elster Linking the future : eligibility and amendments Seminar 2 May 2011 5:00 - 6:00pm Michel Rosenfeld Comparison of the French and American constitutional models : genesis and evolution Lecture 5 May 2011 3:00 - 4:00pm Jon Elster Conclusion Next See also Lecture related to the seminar: The Constituent Assembly of 1789-1791 Collective decisions (continued) Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences The Federal Convention and the Constituent Assembly of 1789: a closer look
