Roundtable: Should Citizens’ Assemblies Be More Like Sovereign Parliaments or Not?

At the ISPS Governing Citizens’ Assemblies Conference on February 28, 2024, Alexandra Cirone, Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University and Visiting fellow at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies, moderated a roundtable discussion on whether citizens’ assemblies should be more like sovereign parliaments.
• Thierry Beaudet, President of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council
• Cristina Lafont, Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University
• Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science, Yale University; Distinguished Researcher, Oxford University Institute for Ethics in AI
• Myriam Souami, Member of the Citizens’ Convention on End-of-Life Issues