Democracy: a Harvard Law Lecture Series | Session 4: Are ballot initiatives good for democracy?

In recent years, dozens of pro-democracy ballot initiatives have won, enabling the enfranchisement of millions of formerly incarcerated people in Florida, and delivering independent, citizen-led, redistricting commissions in a number of states. Yet, it was just over ten years ago that marriage equality proponents had to overturn Proposition 8 - the initially successful 2008 California ballot initiative that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry - through the courts, rather than at the ballot box.
With more and more groups proposing and sponsoring pro-democracy ballot initiatives, in a conversation moderated by Guy-Uriel Charles, Charles Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law, discussants Katie Fahey (executive director of The People), Adav Noti (vice president and legal director at Campaign Legal Center), and Chris Melody Fields Figueredo (executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center) offer answers to the question: Are ballot initiatives actually good for democracy?
This event was the fourth session in the yearlong Democracy lecture series, which is co-hosted by professors Guy Uriel-Charles, Ruth Greenwood, Lawrence Lessig, and Nicholas Stephanopoulos.
For more on the series, visit www.hlsdemocra....
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