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This Symposium seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working at the crossroads of law, the state and democracy. Within liberal democracy, rule of law is commonly treated as a pillar of liberal norms, while the relationship between law and democracy remains less clear. While we have found critical resources in the claim that we are living in an age of 鈥渋lliberal democracy,鈥� it is our contention that in most cases, 鈥渓iberal non-democracy鈥� would be a more appropriate framing of this phenomenon. Such a conception helps move away from increasingly zero-sum formulations in which greater attachment to rule of law, constitutionalism and the regulatory state means less popular control over government, less representation, and less democracy. Within these conceptualizations, the relationship between the regulatory state, administrative law and democracy has been particularly fraught, to the point that our current histories and theories of democracy leave us without a clear explanation as to why a move toward despotism would seek to destroy the administrative state and regulatory power first and foremost, under the heading of overthrowing the 鈥渄eep state.鈥� In this conception we are led to believe that destroying the administrative state means more democracy, not less.

And yet, the consequence is clearly the opposite. From racial justice to environmental degradation and education policy, destroying the administrative state and treating the courts, administration and administrative law as existing outside or even opposed to democracy has proven to be deeply contradictory and devastating. Our symposium seeks to address this challenge by considering the ways in which even as democracy may have an uneasy relation to formal notions of constitutional rule, rule of law and administration, it remains in fundamental ways built through administrative and legal practice. Specifically, we seek to build on recent work in the history of the state and administration that have begun to open new ways of understanding how a more democratic conception of law and administration contributed to institutionalizing popular power and 鈥済overnment for the people.鈥� Similarly, alongside the classic stories of听rechstaat听补苍诲听polizeistaat, recent work has highlighted a third narrative on the democratic origins of the modern administrative state and the role of administrative law in guaranteeing their perpetuation.

This symposium seeks to promote an interdisciplinary approach to these questions on law, state and democracy from jurists, the social sciences, philosophy, literature and social theory. Our aim is to begin a larger conversation that we plan to continue in an effort to shed new light on the interdependence, and indeed fundamental co-construction of law and democracy in promoting just and effective modes of government.

• Roberto Bre帽a听| Centro de Estudios Internacionales of El Colegio de M茅xico
• Craig Calhoun听| Arizona State University
• Chiara Cordelli听| University of Chicago
• Blake Emerson听| UCLA School of Law
• Harris Feinsod听| Johns Hopkins University
• Dilip Gaonkar听| Northwestern University
• Jayson Harsin听| AUP
• Chris Havasy听| George Washington University Law
• Myriam Hunter-Henin听| UCL Laws
• Jeff King听| UCL Laws
• Sandra Laugier | Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne
• Liam Mayes听| Rice University
• Joana Mendes听| University of Luxembourg
• Naintara Maya Oberoi听| AUP
• Gazela Pudar Drasko听| University of Belgrade
• Stephen Ramos听| University of Georgia
• Stephen Sawyer听| AUP
• Zona Zari膰听| AUP,听University of Belgrade
• Roman Zinigrad听| AUP

• Dilip Gaonkar听| Northwestern University
• Stephen Sawyer听| AUP
• Roman Zinigrad听| AUP
• Naintara Maya Oberoi听| AUP
• Zona Zari膰听| AUP,听University of Belgrade

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Student听Organizers:

• Lucie Reed听| AUP
• Lily Koz艂owski听| AUP