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DESCRIPTION:The Institute of Comparative Law invites you to “Coffee and Com
 parative Law with... Professor Hoi Kong. ” Professor Kong is one of 91������
 ’s own comparative scholars who teaches and writes in the areas of Constit
 utional Law\, Administrative Law\, and Municipal Law\, among others.  “Cof
 fee and Comparative Law with...” is a new series of short informal talks b
 y (and talks with) different Faculty members regarding their work in compa
 rative law. These talks serve as an opportunity for interested students to
  meaningfully engage with 91������’s own comparative scholars and their work
 . Each event involves the advance distribution of a selected text and a co
 rresponding talk by its author\, followed by an opportunity for questions 
 and discussion over a cup of coffee! Ultimately\, these sessions allow us 
 to engage with both the process and substance of comparative scholarship w
 ith some of the field’s brightest scholars.  Even should the subject matte
 r lay outside your particular research area\, these engagements offer an o
 pportunity for questions that relate to more general issues such as method
  and difficulties encountered in your own comparative scholarship.   While
  this event is geared towards graduate students\, undergrads are also welc
 ome!  For us to explore and discuss\, Professor Kong has distributed a dra
 ft of his current work-in-progress entitled “Deliberative Constitutional A
 mendments”. He writes: “This paper has two goals. First\, it will examine 
 amendment processes in two jurisdictions—Switzerland and Canada--in order 
 to assess whether they should be characterized as deliberative or aggregat
 ive in nature. Second\, it will argue that to the extent that amendment pr
 ocesses should be understood to be deliberative in nature\, there are a ra
 nge of plausible institutional mechanisms for rendering constitutional ame
 ndment processes optimally deliberative. The specific choices made in a gi
 ven constitutional order will be driven by features of that context and wi
 ll reflect different strands of deliberative democratic theory. But before
  I engage these substantive debates\, I will offer a preliminary reflectio
 n (1) on what is meant by a constitutional amendment\, and (2) about the n
 ormative significance of acts of constitutional characterization.”  Coffee
  and snacks will be provided. If possible\, please RSVP at jeffrey.kennedy
  [at] mail.mcgill.ca\, as well as if you have yet to receive the draft art
 icle.
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LOCATION:Room 102\, Peel 3690\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3690 rue Pee
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SUMMARY:Coffee and Comparative Law with... Professor Hoi Kong
URL:/law/channels/event/coffee-and-comparative-law-pro
 fessor-hoi-kong-239620
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