May 20, 2008.VIULECTURES 1|08_1 Multiculturalism: a New Era for the Liberal Nation State?
20 May 2008, 5.00pm
VIU, Isola di San Servolo
Multiculturalism: A New Era for the Liberal Nation-State?
Menachem Mautner,
Daniel Rubinstein Professor,
Faculty of Law
Tel Aviv University
with discussant
Francesca Coin, Lecturer of Sociology of Immigration at Ca' Foscari University
Prof. Mautner will be talking about how multiculturalism is challenging traditional assumptions about the nation-state and liberal political theory.
Menachem Mautner is currently teaching two courses in the Semester Program of the VIU School of Humanities and Social Sciences: Law from a Cultural Perspective and Multiculturalism in a Liberal State.
His fields of interest are Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence.