I joined the Citizens’ Assembly, a body of Harvard students tasked with writing a new constitution for Harvard College’s student government, because I want our elected officials to better represent us ...

In 1983 the Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution enshrined an abortion ban that had prevailed in the nation for more than a century. Public opinion on the issue shifted in the new millennium, ...

Last December, Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore traveled to her native France to help guide an assembly of French citizens charged with reconsidering the country’s laws on euthanasia and ...

Aftab Erfan is the Executive Director of the Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Part of her team provides consultancy and advisory services to organizations running a Residents Assembly such as those ...