Ilya Somin

This panel discussion considered the possibilities for changing the rules of representation.

The session featured Professor Ilya Somin of George Mason University, Professor Jenna Bednar of the University of Michigan, and Professor Jonathan Rodman of Stanford University.

The session was chaired by Nicola Lacey, School Professor of Law, Gender, and Social Policy at LSE.

Welcome back after that very nice lunch and our interesting morning.

More recently, he's focused on a number of broader topics in economic and political geography, with special focus on the urban-rural divide, which you've heard so much about so far.

And he's currently working on American polarisation in comparative perspective.

And last but not least, Ilya Somin is from George Mason University.

He's also a visiting professor of law at the University of Virginia and Bennett B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.

I'm your host, William Cooper, and with me as always is Ed- Edward Larson.

We are delighted to have Ilya Somin with us today, a renowned legal scholar among other things, and we're gonna dive into lots of interesting topics that relate to this question, uh, which our guest is very, very qualified to answer, and it's gonna be a lot of fun.

As listeners know, Ed sets up the episode for us in the context of how the Constitution works and why it doesn't, and Ed, I'll hand you the mic.

Hello, Ilya.