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<p style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear friends of DemocracyNet,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are pleased to share the invitation to an upcoming public roundtable, Open Constitutional Democracy: Reconciling
Deliberation and Constitutional Democracy, which will take place at the University of Lausanne and online on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, from 4:30 to 6:45 pm.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The event will bring together leading experts in the field of democratic innovations for an interdisciplinary
conversation about the constitutional role and design of deliberative mini-publics.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><u>Free entrance by registration until August 25 at 12 noon:
</u></b><a href="https://events.unil.ch/register/729" data-outlook-id="81b4b4fc-4b95-4325-a9e0-a5332dbd0a6b" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b><u>https://events.unil.ch/register/729</u></b></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Speakers will include:</b><br>
Andr Bchtiger University of Stuttgart<br>
Simone Chambers University of California, Irvine<br>
Alice el-Wakil University of Copenhagen<br>
David Farrell University College Dublin<br>
Roberto Gargarella University of Buenos Aires<br>
Alexander Guerrero Rutgers University<br>
Silvia Suteu European University Institute<br>
Chiara Valentini University of Bologna<br>
Pierre-Etienne Vandamme Universit catholique de Louvain<br>
Yanina Welp University of Girona</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The roundtable is organized by Odile Ammann and Chiara Valsangiacomo-Balmelli (University of Lausanne, Centre of public law), with funding from the Swiss National
Science Foundation.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The event is part of the broader Trans-Atlantic Platform project, Open Constitutional Democracy: Reconciling
Deliberation and Constitutional Democracy, led by principal investigators David Vitale (University of Warwick), Michael Pal (University of Ottawa), and Odile Ammann (University of Lausanne).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For further information, please contact us at
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chiara.valsangiacomo-balmelli@unil.ch</a>.</span></p>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">University of Lausanne </div>
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