Jacob T. Levy gave the 31st Annual McDonald Lecture in Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta Law School. The title of his presentation was “The Separation of Powers and the Challenge to Constitutional Democracy”.

“Professor Levy examines the roots of our contemporary challenges to constitutional democracy, and traces these to the development of one of constitutionalism’s central institutions: the separation of powers. He explains how the visible fragility of constitutional democracy is, in real part, a fragility of the separation of powers, and how addressing the one requires also addressing the other.”

Follow-up panel entitled “The Future o Liberal Democracies and Levy’s Separation of Powers Thesis”, with commentators including Yann Allard-Tremblay: