Democracy in Times of Pandemic

Miguel Poiares Maduro was the founding Director of the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute in Florence where he is currently a Professor. He has been Advocate General at the European Court of Justice and a Government Minister in Portugal. Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. He is the author of a dozen books in law, political theory, and moral philosophy. His most recent book was The Origins of Order (2019).

• Introduction: a new beginning Miguel Poiares Maduro and Paul W. Kahn; Part I. Power: 1. The crisis of democratic leadership in times of pandemic Neil Walker; 2. Executive overreach and underreach in the pandemic Kim Lane Scheppele and David Pozen; 3. From political accountability to criminal liability: the strange case of French penal populism Olivier Beaud; 4. Democracy and emergency in Latin America Roberto Gargarella; 5. Apocalyptic Christianity, democracy, and the pandemic Stanley Hauerwas; Part II. Knowledge: 6. The reckoning: evaluating democratic leadership Michael Ignatieff; 7. The irrelevance of the pandemic Samuel Moyn; 8. Emergency, democracy and public discourse Moshe Halbertal; 9. Understanding, deciding, and learning: the key political challenges in times of pandemic Daniel Innerarity; Part III. Citizens: 10. COVID, Europe and the self-asphyxiation of democracy J. H. H. Weiler; 11. Corona as chance: overcoming the tyranny of self-interest Susan Neiman; 12. Re-imagined democracy in times of pandemic Kalypso Nicolaïdes; 13. Redefining vulnerability and state-society relationships during the COVID-19 crisis: the politics of social welfare funds in India and Italy Deval Desai, Shalini Randeria and Christine Lutringer; 14. Democracy and the obligations of care: a demos worthy of sacrifice Paul W. Kahn.

'A wide-ranging and provocative debate on the current crisis - generating many insights that will endure long after the Pandemic fades away.' Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University