Bellamy Delivers Lecture at McGill University

7 November 2024

On 7 November 2024, GCDC member Professor Richard Bellamy delivered a lecture titled ‘The Rule of Law as the Democratic Rule of Persons’ at McGill University. The lecture was part of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS) Lecture Series, a forum that brings together leading scholars to explore the principles, values, and institutions that shape free societies. The RGCS is a unit of the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds.

In the lecture, Professor Bellamy presented his ongoing research on the rule of law as the democratic rule of persons, which will form part of his forthcoming book Defending the Political Constitution. The book, he explained, builds on his earlier work Political Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press 2007), while addressing contemporary challenges to political constitutionalism and comparing its resilience to that of legal constitutionalism. Central to Professor Bellamy’s argument was the idea that the rule of law cannot exist without the rule of persons. Following the presentation, there was a question-and-answer session with members of the audience.

The full lecture is available to watch on the Yan P. Lin Centre’s YouTube channel.