Law · Boston College
This course will explore the meaning and practice of deliberative democracy within the U.S. constitutional system. Deliberative self-determination is often thought to play a foundational role in self-government, protected by the free-speech clause of the First Amendment. But what are the legal and institutional conditions that make democratic self-government possible? How have judicial opinions, interpretive theories, and political practice aided or thwarted the realization of deliberative democracy? How have contemporary debates and developments challenged our understandings of deliberative d
