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: