BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/the-revival-of-cons tituent-power/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:532b9c7a-9709-4f43-bc2e-deb64612d229 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260508T063338 DTSTART:20260512T173000 DTEND:20260512T190000 SUMMARY:The revival of constituent power? LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (MA R.1.10\, Marshall Building) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 12 May 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakersProfessor Erin Delaney Oliver GarnerProfessor Martin LoughlinCarmen PavelDiscussantsProfessor Mic hael WilkinsonMarkus PatbergChairProfessor Jonathan WhiteSince the large-s cale political transformations of the 1990s\, we have been witnessing a re vival of the category of constituent power – broadly understood as the d emocratic right of ‘the people’ to make and change constitutions. More recently\, this shift has been met with scepticism. Today’s challenges to the concept hold it responsible for the erosion of constitutional democ racies through populist and authoritarian mobilisation. At the same time\, democratic movements within and outside Europe have formulated their dema nds in the language of constituent power\, claiming legitimacy for acts of constitutional contestation and renewal.The Oxford Handbook of Constituen t Power (OUP\, 2026\; eds. P. Niesen\, M. Patberg\, L. Rubinelli) examines the intellectual roots as well as paradigmatic agents\, sites\, and manif estations of constituent power today. The roundtable brings together exper ts in the field to discuss a key contention of the handbook – namely\, t hat the category of constituent power is indispensable to explain and eval uate contemporary conflicts about political legitimacy\, especially\, but not exclusively\, in federal and transnational polities such as the United Kingdom and the European Union.Meet our speakers and chairErin F. Delaney is the Inaugural Director of the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutio nalism and the Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at U niversity College London. Her scholarship explores constitutionalism in co mparative perspective\, with a particular focus on judicial legitimacy. He r work on judicial power and judicial design addresses both the “counter majoritarian difficulty” of an unelected judiciary and the constitutiona l aspiration of limitations on majoritarian democracy. For her article\, T he Federal Case for Judicial Review\, about courts in federal systems\, sh e was named the 2022 Federal Scholar in Residence at the Institution for C omparative Federalism (EURAC Research) in Italy\, and she has held the Ful bright Visiting Research Chair in the Theory and Practice of Constitutiona lism and Federalism at McGill University. Other areas of interest include the influence of Empire on the development and maintenance of democratic c onstitutionalism\, as well as colonial and post-colonial constitutionalism more broadly.Oliver Garner is a Lecturer in Law at City Law School\, City St George’s\, University of London from September 2025. He previously h eld positions at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law\, British Institut e of International and Comparative Law and the Central European University Democracy Institute. He completed his LL.M. and Ph.D. at the European Uni versity Institute and holds a BA Jurisprudence from the University of Oxfo rd. Oliver’s fields of research are EU law and UK constitutional law and he teaches Public Law\, EU Law\, and Immigration Law in the City Law Scho ol. His first monograph Constitutional Disintegration and Disruption: With drawal and Opt-Outs from the European Union was published in May 2025 by O xford University Press. He has published articles\, book reviews\, and edi torials in the European Law Review\, the Cambridge Yearbook of European Le gal Studies\, the International Journal of Constitutional Law\, Perspectiv es on Federalism\, Les Cahiers Portalis\, and the European Journal of Lega l Studies.Martin Loughlin is Professor of Law\, Emeritus Professor of Publ ic Law at LSE. He was educated at LSE\, the University of Warwick and Harv ard Law School and held chairs at the Universities of Glasgow and Manchest er before returning to LSE in 2000. He was a member of the Editorial Commi ttee of The Modern Law Review from 1987 to 2010\, serving as General Edito r between 2002-07\, and now sits on its Advisory Board. Martin was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011 and in 2015 was awarded an honora ry LL.D. by the University of Edinburgh. He has held research fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2007-8)\, Princeton University (2001 2-13)\, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2016-17)\, Edinburgh Law S chool (2019) and Yale Law School (2023) and been a Visiting Professor at s everal law schools including Osgoode Hall\, Paris II\, Pennsylvania\, Renm in University (Beijing)\, and Toronto.Markus Patberg is Research Associate in Political Theory at the University of Hamburg. From April 2026\, he wi ll take up a position as Professor of Political Theory and History of Idea s at the University of Greifswald. He has worked as an interim professor a t the University of Münster and at FU Berlin. He has held visiting positi ons at University College London\, the London School of Economics and Poli tical Science and the University Pompeu Fabra\, Barcelona. Patberg's resea rch interests lie in the areas of democratic theory\, constitutional theor y\, and international political theory. He is the author of Constituent Po wer in the European Union (Oxford University Press\, 2020). His current pr ojects deal with the legitimacy of exit from international institutions an d the digital transformation of democracy.Carmen Pavel is Reader in Politi cs\, Philosophy\, and Economics at King’s College London. She specialise s in political philosophy and the history of political thought. Her intere sts include the philosophy of international law\, liberal theory and conte mporary challenges to it\, and ethics and public policy. She received her PhD from Brown University and then served as a postdoctoral fellow and lec turer in the Program in Political Philosophy\, Policy and Law at Universit y of Virginia and subsequently at the University of Arizona. At King’s\, Dr Pavel has served as the first director of the PPE programme from 2015- 2018 and has contributed substantively to its re-design. She has published two books with Oxford University Press\, Divided Sovereignty (2015) and L aw Beyond the State: Dynamic Coordination\, State Consent and Binding Inte rnational Law (2021)Jonathan White is Professor of Politics and Deputy Hea d of the European Institute at LSE\, where he researches and teaches on de mocracy\, political thought and political theory. He joined LSE as Lecture r in September 2008\, after completing his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. He has held visiting positions at Harvard\, Stanfor d\, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin\, Humboldt University\, Hertie Schoo l\, Sciences Po in Paris and the Australian National University.Mike Wilki nson is Professor of Law at LSE. He is the author of Authoritarian Liberal ism and the Transformation of Modern Europe (OUP 2021) and co-editor (with Marco Goldoni) of the Handbook on the Material Constitution (CUP 2023).Mo re about this eventEstablished in 1991\, the LSE European Institute is a w orld-leading centre for the study of Europe in its global context. With ei ght master’s degrees and a doctoral programme\, a vibrant research commu nity\, and a world-leading public events programme\, our work spans Politi cal Economy\, Politics & Policy\, Culture & Society\, and Migration.Follow us: Instagram\, LinkedIn\, Bluesky\, Twitter\, YouTube\, and Soundcloud. 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