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For immediate release: November 14, 2000
Media advisory: Panel to discuss Electoral College and 2000 election
WHO: Members of the Princeton University faculty
WHAT: Panel discussion on "The Electoral College and the 2000 Election;" free and open to the public
WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bowl 1, Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus
As the nation considers the confusion surrounding the presidential election, five scholars from the Princeton University faculty will participate in a panel discussion concerning the Electoral College and the 2000 election.
The panelists will be: Christopher L. Eisgruber, faculty fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs and professor of law at the New York University School of Law. Eisgruber recently wrote Constitutional Self-Government (Harvard University Press), and is the author of numerous articles on the U.S. Constitution, political theory and religious liberty.
Jonathan Riley, visiting research scholar at the University Center for Human Values and associate professor at Tulane University’s Murphy Institute of Political Economy. His scholarly interests include liberalism, constitutionalism and utilitarian ethics. Riley is now completing a book called Pluralistic Liberalisms: Berlin, Rawls, Mill and a work on free speech and public morality.
Joan C. Tronto, visiting research scholar at the University Center for Human Values and professor of political science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Tronto concentrates primarily on feminist political theory, feminist politics in the United States, and the nature of care in the contemporary world.
Keith E. Whittington, assistant professor of politics. He researches constitutional law and theory, separation of powers, American political development, and American political thought and culture. He is the author of Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meanings, and is studying the political supports for judicial independence and supremacy.
Melissa S. Williams, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at the University Center for Human Values and associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Her scholarly interests include democratic theory, American constitutionalism and political thought, and feminist theory. She is the author of Voice, Trust and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation.
This discussion is co-sponsored by Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.
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