LPE: Happy Hour & Discussion

Join LPE for a happy hour and discussion at Free House on Thursday November 20 at 5pm. The conversation will be anchored in a 2024 LPE lecture by Professor Aziz Rana on his book The Constitutional Bind. We’ll structure the conversation around Professor Rana’s arguments, but please feel free to join even if you have not watched the video. 

ABOUT THE LECTURE

The LPE Project hosted a lunch talk with Professor Aziz Rana, the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College Law School, on Wednesday, September 18th to discuss his latest book, The Constitutional Bind (The University of Chicago Press, 2024). The Constitutional Bind investigates the history of the American Constitution and argues that the current reverence for the Constitution is a relatively recent phenomenon, connected to the rise of U.S. global dominance in the twentieth century. While offering a common language of reform, this veneration has also fueled an interventionist national security state and stifled deeper changes at home. In an eye-opening account, the book also highlights the voices of movement activists—spanning Black, Indigenous, feminist, labor, and immigrant communities—who historically challenged the prevailing constitutional order and imagined alternative futures.