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Eastern Jackson County, MO —
The Department of History and Political Science at Park University will host its annual Constitution Day Lecture next month.
The lecture is at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 in the McCoy Meetin’ House on the university’s Parkville campus. The lecture, “Gun-Barrel Democracy? Democratic Constitutionalism Following Military Occupation: Reflections on the U.S. Experience in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan and Iraq,” will feature Stanley Katz, professor of public and international affairs and director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University.
Katz’s recent research focuses on the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy and on the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He serves as editor-in-chief of the recently published Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History and the editor of History of the United States Supreme Court. He also writes about higher education policy and publishes a blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Katz is president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the national humanities organization in the United States.
Katz’s lecture will argue that the success of the United States in assisting in the creation of constitutional democracy in the post-World War II occupations of Germany and Japan is not relevant to establishing policies for the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq at the present time.
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day are federally mandated for all institutions of higher education that receive federal funding. The legislation was enacted in 2004 and implemented by the U.S. Department of Education in 2005.
The Department of History and Political Science at Park University will host its annual Constitution Day Lecture next month.
The lecture is at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 in the McCoy Meetin’ House on the university’s Parkville campus. The lecture, “Gun-Barrel Democracy? Democratic Constitutionalism Following Military Occupation: Reflections on the U.S. Experience in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan and Iraq,” will feature Stanley Katz, professor of public and international affairs and director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University.
Katz’s recent research focuses on the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy and on the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He serves as editor-in-chief of the recently published Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History and the editor of History of the United States Supreme Court. He also writes about higher education policy and publishes a blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Katz is president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the national humanities organization in the United States.
Katz’s lecture will argue that the success of the United States in assisting in the creation of constitutional democracy in the post-World War II occupations of Germany and Japan is not relevant to establishing policies for the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq at the present time.
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day are federally mandated for all institutions of higher education that receive federal funding. The legislation was enacted in 2004 and implemented by the U.S. Department of Education in 2005.
