Thomas Christiano on the Legitimacy of International Institutions (video)

Video with lecture by Thomas Christiano:

Is Democratic Legitimacy Possible for International Institutions? (mp4)

The lecture was given at the Osgood Hall Law School, York University, on October 22, 2010.

See his paper here (pdf)

The paper will be published in "International Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives" ed. by Daniele Archibugi & Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011).

Thomas Christiano is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is the author of "The Rule of The Many: Fundamental Issues in Democratic Theory" (Westview Press, 1996) and "The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and Its Limits" (Oxford University Press, 2008).