Professor Jennifer Nedelsky will discuss her latest article.

Abstract: “constitutionalism” means the framework for co-operating communities that include the more-than human. The nation-state is both too large and too small for optimal earth-centric decision-making. New values of responsibility, freedom, and care become foundational. “Representation” now needs to include more-than-human participants, raising questions about which of the traditional structures of democracy remain valuable. Special protection for core values require forms other than conventional judicial review. Responsibility becomes more important than rights. New approaches to property, to work and care, to economic equality, to security, and to individual responsibility are necessary to foster core values of the new constitutionalism. Both spiritual and secular language are important to capture the intrinsic value of “all our relations.”

Professor Jonathan Herring will be acting as a discussant.