Disqualifying Political Candidates Who Threaten Democracy: Global Perspectives

from Democracy's Future? · host Julie Suk

Read Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq, and David Landau, Democracy's Other Boundary Problem: The Law of Disqualification in California Law Review (2023).Tom Ginsburg is Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Political Science at the University of Chicago, He is the author Democracies and International Law (2021), How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018), and Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003).David Landau is Mason Ladd Professor of Law at Florida State University, and also director of International Programs. He is the co-author of the book, Abusive Constitutional Borrowing (2021, with Rosalind Dixon) and a case book on Colombian Constitutional Law (2017, with Manuel Cepeda-Espinosa).

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When should a political candidate deemed a threat to democracy be disqualified from running for office? As the Supreme Court takes up the constitutional questions that could end Trump's bid for the Presidency, Democracy's Future hosts a conversation with Tom Ginsburg and David Landau, scholarly experts on the law of disqualification in democracies around the world.

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