Participant, ‘The Quest for Legitimacy: Actors, Audiences and Aspirations’, 2017 APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 31-September 3 (I)

Posted on August 26, 2017 by H.M.T.D. ten Napel

Topics include:

New Perspectives on Montesquieu
The Crisis of Constitutional Democracy
American Public Philosophy in the Age of Trump
On the Compatibility of Natural Law and Natural Rights
Author Meets Critics: Alexander Tsesis’s “Constitutional Ethos”
Liberalism in Crisis
Challenges to the Rule of Law
The Future of Conservatism
Constitution Making in Religiously Divided Societies

See for more information about the program: http://web.apsanet.org/apsa2017/.

Participant, ‘Great Transformations: Political Science and the Big Questions of Our Time’, 2016 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4

I am both a lawyer and political scientist by training. From early on I have been fascinated by crossing (sub)disciplinary boundaries. Thus, while I was still teaching at the Department of Political Science, I collaborated with constitutional lawyers in the field of Dutch government and politics. I also spent a sabbatical at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, USA. After my transfer to the Law Faculty, I developed a course in Comparative Constitutional Law, thereby once again attempting to bridge the gap with constitutional politics. I also co-directed book projects on political parties and public law (2014) and the separation of powers (2015) respectively.
Recently, I have been able to capitalize on the fact that I thrive in interdisciplinary and international settings even further. In 2013 a research proposal I co-authored with historian James Kennedy as principal applicant, entitled ‘Religion Renegotiated: Faith-Based Organizations and the State in the Netherlands since the 1960s', was granted a major subsidy by the Dutch Association for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2014 I was awarded a Research Fellowship in Legal Studies at the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University, USA, which enabled me to be in full-time residence at CTI for the academic year 2014-2015. Since 2015, I am a member of the editorial board of the Tijdschrift voor Religie, Recht en Beleid (Journal for Religion, Law and Policy).
Throughout my professional career my passion has been the question of how constitutional democracies can be designed in order to meet the demands of religiously and otherwise divided societies. My PhD thesis already dealt with the origins of the Dutch Christian Democratic party, whose predecessors were major architects of the pluriform democracy which has characterized the Netherlands during most of the 20th century. A new book, entitled 'Constitutionalism, Democracy and Religious Freedom. To Be Fully Human' (Routledge), is now published.

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Participant, ‘The Quest for Legitimacy: Actors, Audiences and Aspirations’, 2017 APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 31-September 3 (II) September 3, 2017
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Book review: ‘The Political Theology of European Integration,’ by Mark R. Royce August 18, 2017
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Presenter and Discussant, ICON-S Conference ‘Courts, Power, Public Law’, University of Copenhagen, 5-7 July 2017 (II) July 8, 2017
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Presenter and Discussant, ICON-S Conference ‘Courts, Power, Public Law’, University of Copenhagen, 5-7 July 2017 July 1, 2017
Looking forward to presenting next week on ‘The European Court of Human Rights’ “constitutional morality” in the religious domain’. The paper forms part of a panel on ‘Judicialisation of Human Rights Law and Policy: A Vehicle for Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights?’ The … Continue reading →
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Participant, Acton University, June 20-23 2017, Grand Rapids, Michigan (II) June 24, 2017
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Press Release: ‘Twelve ILS seed money grants for frontier research at Leiden Law School’ June 23, 2017
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Participant, Acton University, June 20-23 2017, Grand Rapids, Michigan (I) June 19, 2017
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Interview t.b.v. artikel ‘Buma koestert conservatisme’ June 17, 2017
Bron: European People’s Party – EPP Dublin Congress, 2014, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31654267 Het Reformatorisch Dagblad publiceert vandaag (zaterdag 17 juni 2017) op de voorpagina bovengenoemd artikel van Gerard Vroegindeweij, dat als volgt opent: ‘Het CDA positioneert zich rechts van … Continue reading →
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