Legislation by Lot agenda
| Provisional Schedule of Sessions
All sessions are in the Pyle Center, Room 225 The schedule shows the names of presenters attending the conference, not all the listed authors.
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| Friday, September 15 | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Greeting & continental breakfast |
| Alternative Approaches | |
| 9:30-10:20 | Graham Smith, “The circumstances of sortition” |
| 10:30-11:20 | Andrea Fellicetti, “A bottom-up perspective on sortition as a means of democratization” |
| 11:30-12:20 | Jim Fishkin, “Random assemblies for law-making? Prospects and limits” |
| 12:30 – 1:45 | LUNCH |
| Contexts and Considerations for Implementation | |
| 1:45-2:35 | Arash Abizadeh, “Representation, bicameralism, and sortition: reconstituting the senate as a randomly selected Citizen Assembly” |
| 2:45-3:35 | Raphaël Kies, “A prudential path towards EU sortition and legitimacy” |
| 3:45-4:35 | Vincent Jacquet, Christoph Niessen, & Pierre-Etienne Vandamme, “Complementary virtues and competing legitimacies: Inter-chamber relationships in a bicameral elected and sortitioned legislature” |
| 4:45-5:35 | Lyn Carson [via Skype], “How to ensure that a randomly-selected legislative chamber functions successfully” |
| 7:00 | Dinner at Ichiban, 610 S Park St. |
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Saturday, September 16 |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Coffee, continental breakfast |
| The Larger Democratic Reform Agenda | |
| 9:30-10:20 | Ned Crosby, “Legislatures by lot in the context of major democratic reforms” |
| 10:30-11:20 | Yves Sintomer, “From deliberative to radical democracy? Sortition and politics in the 21th century” |
| 11:30-12:20 | Tom Malleson, “Radical democracy and the proposal for a legislature by lot” |
| 12:30-1:45 | LUNCH |
| Design Considerations | |
| 1:45-2:35 | Tom Arnold, “Lessons from the Irish Constitutional Convention, 2012-14” |
| 2:45-3:35 | Dimitri Courant, “Thinking sortition: Modes of selection, deliberative frameworks and democratic principles” |
| 3:45-4:35 | David Schecter, “How to design a sortition legislature?” |
| 7:00 | Dinner, Erik Wright’s house, 1101 Grant Street |
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(cont on next page) Sunday, September 17 |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Coffee, continental breakfast |
| Moving Beyond Electoral Accountability | |
| 9:30-10:20 | Brett Hennig, “On democratic representation and accountability” |
| 10:30-11:20 | Terrill Bouricius, “Why hybrid bicameralism is not right for sortition” |
| 11:30-12:20 | Campbell Wallace, “A ‘pure sortition’ proposal for democracy without elections” |
| 12:30 – 1:45 | LUNCH (perhaps sandwiches in the room?) |
| 1:45-3:00 | Open discussion and wrap-up |
Presenters
Andrea Felicetti
Arash Abizadeh
Brett Hennig
Campbell Wallace
Christoph Niessen
David Schecter
Dimitri Courant
Erik Olin Wright
Graham Smith
Jim Fishkin
John Pitseys
Lyn Carson (“Carson”)
Ned Crosby
Pierre-Etienne Vandamme
Raphaël Kies
Terrill Bouricius
Tom Arnold
Tom Malleson
Vincent Jacquet
Yves Sintomer
Attending but not writing a paper
Archon Fung
Jane Mansbridge