Friday\, March 28\, 2025
12:15-1:30p m ET
WCC 2004
Please join the Program on Law and Political Econ omy as we host Professor Yazier Henry (University of Michigan) for a very s pecial conversation on political\, intellectual\, and professional responsi bility in times of democratic crisis. All are welcome\, and lunch from Salo niki will be served!
The world has experienced numerous democratic\, anti-democratic\, colonial\, and anti-colonial waves over the past three ce nturies. During such times of social upheaval\, the state has unde rgone multiple and significant transformations–in its political\, theoretic al\, and legal dimensions\, along with its actual structural life. These ch anges often unfold in moments of acute global crises\, giving rise to world -historical\, epoch-defining turns. Analyzing these historically disorienti ng events in real-time presents complex challenges\, as the analyst is simu ltaneously subject to the often violent experience of living within social\ , economic\, and political rupture.
Today\, understanding the central ity of law to the state’s moral basis\, structural function\, and systemic purpose is a crucial political and intellectual task. Indeed\, the very fou ndations of the constitutional democratic state and their expression in adm inistrative form are fully absorbed in the convulsions of our times.
In his remarks\, Professor Yazier Henry will address how legal and policy p rofessionals might approach contextualizing the complex nature of the state . He aims to draw critical attention to the state’s coercive and disciplina ry power\, its humanist transformations\, and the manifold social and econo mic consequences at hand. Intellectuals\, lawyers\, and policy professional s caught in the eye of history-making storms can attain no objective freedo m or exception from their professional\, ethical\, and democratic responsib ilities. Rather\, the only way out is through.
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