With the current administration’s focus on rigged elections, we need to ask ourselves the hard question as to whether democracy is doomed in America. Dr. Sarat will take us through the past several elections, the fact that there is a mobilization by the administration to weigh the elections in their favor. They, and all the rest of us, must mobilize to avoid that result. This program will offer a perspective on the upcoming election as well as discuss strategies for preserving and improving democratic politics.
Biography:
Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College.
Professor Sarat founded Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought and The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. He also has been president of the Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs.
He is author or editor of more than ninety books including The Death Penalty on the Ballot: American Democracy and the Fate of Capital Punishment, and Something to Believe in: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyers (with Stuart Scheingold). His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, NBC. com, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Hill, State, and USA Today.