Peter Sagal’s Constitution Sessions: How to Save a Constitutional Democracy

1:30-3 PM


A conversation on democracy’s fault lines

Democracies don’t collapse overnight. They erode, one small concession at a time. But what does democratic collapse actually look like from the inside? University of Chicago law professors Aziz Huq and Tom Ginsburg, authors of the new book How to Save a Constitutional Democracy, join NPR's Peter Sagal to unpack how constitutional systems around the world have unraveled — and what safeguards make some democracies more resilient than others.

Speaker(s): Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, and Peter Sagal