Neil Siegel Book Talk

Professor Neil Siegel (Duke University School of Law) will be speaking about his new book The Collective-Action Constitution. Neil is a prominent and widely cited scholar on a variety of structural constitutional issues, and his new book is a major contribution to the field. An important read for scholars, lawyers, judges, and students alike, Neil Siegel’s The Collective-Action Constitution addresses how the U.S. Constitution is, in a fundamental sense, the Collective-Action Constitution. Any faithful account of what the Constitution is for and how it should be interpreted must include the primary structural purpose of empowering the federal government to solve collective-action problems for the states and preventing them from causing such problems. This book offers a thorough examination of the collective-action principles animating the structure of the Constitution and how they should be applied to meet many of the most daunting challenges facing American society today.